Sex Congress Opened By Experts At Berlin, Casper Daily (Article, 1921)
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"Berlin, Sept. 16-- Reform of the German divorce laws; consideration of the Steinach rejuvination theory; birth control; the origin of the 'stork story'-- these and other topics were to be considered in the international sex congress opening her today.
Experts from all parts of the world were assembled to discuss these matters. The question of the making divorce easier was to be one of the leading topics. In Germany, it is difficult for a woman to be freed of a man who is not mentally perfect. Only when he becomes dangerous to the community can she get a divroce. But a man can easily be freed of a woman whose intellect is distrubed. These and other inequalities were to be considered.
Likewise, the Steinach rejuvenation operation was to come in for discussion.
Dr. Hirschfeld recently seriously attacked in Munich by anti-Semitic people, will be one of the leading spirits in the conference. Hirschfeld is desirous of having laws against abnormal persons in a sex sense altered so that they will be treated as persons with an illness, instead of as criminals.
Among those invited to the conference were Prof. Victor F. Becki, of San Francisco; Prof. Dr. Lippschuetz, Dorpat; Dr. Gassaul, Rign; Dr. H. Rogge, The Hague; Prof. Dr. Biedl, Prague; Prof. Dr. Asnaurow, San Juan Argentine; Prof. Dr. Mieli, Rome; I Schaeffer, Paris; Joseph Schedel, Peking; A. Tytheridge, Tokio; Dr. Witrey, Metz; Dr. Porocz, Budapest; Dr. Knud Sand, Copenhagen; Dr. Nystroem, Stockhold; Dr. Rutgers, Holland, and Dr. Havelock Ellos, of America, whose writing caused him to quit the states and go to London."
