Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City, Atlanta, St. Louis and Los Angeles. They found that only 1 of 400 people who had been monogamous for the past five years tested positive for AIDS antibodies. However, 6% of the group that reported at least six sex partners a year were infected. Masters, Johnson and Kolodny admit that their results "cannot be easily generalized" because those studied were not representative of the population at large. Despite this disclaimer, they conclude, "the AIDS virus has certainly established a beachhead in the ranks of heterosexuals, and . . . the rate of spread among heterosexuals will now begin to escalate...
...Oakland psychologist and longtime critic of Masters and Johnson, stems from what he terms their "chronic inability to be precise." For example, he asks, how do they know that their 400 nonmonogamous study subjects were not bisexuals or IV drug abusers? Epidemiologists long ago learned that people often admit to risky behavior only after they have been told they test positive. Yet Masters and Johnson did not extensively question their subjects about high-risk behavior...
Harvard and Yale students and alumni said they thought Scroll and Key's decision to admit women had probably been affected by the activity at other campuses and might have some impact at Harvard...
Sarah Chinn, a student coordinator at Yale's Women's Center, said she blamed the alumni for the all-male societies' failure to admit women. "It's the alumni who want to keep a rarified all-male atmosphere," she said...
...alumnus said although there were advantages to the "platonic, single-sex relationships" that the clubs foster, he did not oppose the decision to admit women. He said he might not have voted for the change, but that his opinion "wasn't solicited...