BRYAN STRONG TOWARD THE END of the nineteenth century American sexual attitudes were beginning to undergo a fundamental alteration, for the dominant sexual ideology of sex as restraint was being challenged increasingly by the hitherto radical doctrine of sex as pleasure. The implications of this change in ideology extended far beyond the simple gratification of a temporal impulse to the very formation of character and the organization of society, for, as Freud wrote, the manner in which an individual responds to sexuality is often "a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction to life." In turn, the nature of society is significantly influenced according to whether society chooses to resolve the conflict between Eros and Ananke by the repression, renunciation, or acceptance of sexuality. (1) By the 1920s in the United States the older middle-class beliefs that sex was only for procreation and that pleasure was an unfortunate, if inescapable, side effect "attached to this function simply to ensure reproduction," were being replaced by a belief in which pleasure, in dependent of conception, was as equally legitimate an end of sexual activity in marriage as was procreation. If Freud's hypothesis is correct, then the study of this change in sexual attitudes may offer significant insights into the very structure of man's responses to society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2) I In the nineteenth century Americans sensed an intimate relation be tween sex, character, and society, and by the middle of the nineteenth Mr. Strong teaches in the Peace Studies Program at Stanford U niversity.

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High volume data projects within the CCLRC and the wider UK academic community (ISIS, BADC, and BBSRC) are increasingly looking to implement access to a "limitless " data archive through an SRB infrastructure. This paper describes the recent development of SRB containers as an efficient solution to the "small file problem ", and the benefits this has brought to these scientific communities as it opens up high volume archives and Mass Storage Systems as vital components of SRB-based data management inftastructures. By tracing the development ofcontainer implementation into the Atlas Petabyte Data Store (based at CCLRC in the UK), across three specific projects (CMS, BBSRC and especially ISIS), the paper identifies and describes key lessons learned, both for CCLRC's particular projects and alsofor archival systems in general.

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