Word: altruism
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Venus Examined assumes that a small, sleazy charitable foundation attempts to grab status in the world of tax-exempt altruism by sponsoring a sex research project. The researcher is bent on filming the orgasm in its natural habitat, using live volunteers and, among other teaching aids, a camera-equipped mechanical phallus. Experiment places its research project, supplied with similar equipment, in a crummy Ohio college. Faculty wives are among the volunteers. Neither Robert Kyle nor Patrick Catling is a hopelessly bad writer, sentence by sentence, although Catling wins the nomination for the silliest line of the year (so far): "Camilla...
...Sorokin's name did come up occasionally, it was usually as a source of derision. His study of love in five dimensions at the Center for Research on Creative Altruism, which he founded in 1949, convinced many that he was eccentric. But the books he wrote on love and altruism, like all of his works, are widely known and respected by sociologists...
...Center for Research on Creative Altruism may tempt some to make light of Sorokin. But he was a scholar and an innovator, and his books will be studied by sociologists for many years...
...founded the Harvard Center for Research in Creative Altruism. As the Center's first and only chairman, he was often criticized. His research into the lives of 4600 Christian saints, and 500 living American altruists, his descriptions of five-dimensional love, and his study of Raja-Yoga techniques led some to regard him mistakenly as a ludicrous eccentric...
Sorokin produced a dozen books on love and altruism and they are widely respected...