"No Cause for Alarm"

Few weeks ago the new quarterly You thought it had reached the acme of daring female magazine journalism when it told what to do for "Your Bosom" (TIME, Nov. 15). But last week Free Lancer Maxine Davis wrote in Pictorial Review a story on the prostate gland which made You's frankness read like Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases. "No Cause for Alarm" in the January 1938 number not only surpasses in boldness its uninhibited predecessors but, more astonishingly is written about men's not women's sexual troubles. Outlining the functions and disturbances of the prostate gland, Miss Davis combined the technique of Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Dix and the American Medical Association's Journal.

"Enlarged prostate gland," wrote Author Davis on the authority of Dr. Hugh H. Young, noted Johns Hopkins urologist, "occurs in-about one third of all men over 50." But Miss Davis has reassurance for all wives who, like fictitious Joan Carson, find their husbands have taken to sleeping in the guest room "after 26 years!" Get your husband to a doctor, is her advice for women whose mates are embarrassed with frequency and difficulty of urination. "Naturally such a condition affects any husband's marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment for it reluctantly because he thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely to return. . . . Don't let ignorance and fear cloud the golden hours of your Indian summer."

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