Let the promiscous suffer!
Sue K. sent this to me:
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This comes from a book called "Surgery of the Mind" by Eric A Turner published in 1982, Carmen Press, Birmingham.
Turner was a neurosurgeon who carried out psychosurgical operations in Birmingham and the book is about the 342 people he operated on in the 1960s and 1970s, but that included some people who were operated on for epilepsy not psychiatric symptoms.
"A decline in moral standards was not a significant feature in post-operative cases. Where promiscuity, or prostitution or moral delinquincy was known before illness, the case would not be considered for frontal operations, and the psychiatrists were seldom caught out on this score. Certain inoffensive attitudes that did not impinge on any serious moral principles were not a bar. A number of women patients were, or became, barmaids." p 64
"There had been stories of women taking to prostitution after lobotomy, so sexual laxity was considered a contra-indication to surgery. These decisions were taken in an epoch when sexual moral standards were narrower than they are today, so the decision appeared at that time easier than it would be now. Promiscuity was sufficient to preclude operation, in the belief it would be unacceptably vigorous afterwards." p 71
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This comes from a book called "Surgery of the Mind" by Eric A Turner published in 1982, Carmen Press, Birmingham.
Turner was a neurosurgeon who carried out psychosurgical operations in Birmingham and the book is about the 342 people he operated on in the 1960s and 1970s, but that included some people who were operated on for epilepsy not psychiatric symptoms.
"A decline in moral standards was not a significant feature in post-operative cases. Where promiscuity, or prostitution or moral delinquincy was known before illness, the case would not be considered for frontal operations, and the psychiatrists were seldom caught out on this score. Certain inoffensive attitudes that did not impinge on any serious moral principles were not a bar. A number of women patients were, or became, barmaids." p 64
"There had been stories of women taking to prostitution after lobotomy, so sexual laxity was considered a contra-indication to surgery. These decisions were taken in an epoch when sexual moral standards were narrower than they are today, so the decision appeared at that time easier than it would be now. Promiscuity was sufficient to preclude operation, in the belief it would be unacceptably vigorous afterwards." p 71
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