Word: anality
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...said that because of psychological barriers in United States culture, "People are not yet comfortable about conversations on sex, especially about the use of condoms and the practice of anal...
FREUD coined a now-popular term, "anal-retentiveness," that means more and more to me while I'm at Harvard. I'm not a psychologist, so I have no idea if I use the phrase correctly, but lately I notice a preponderance of such behavior...
Ignorant of the clinical definition of anal-retentive behavior, I use my own term--"anality." It also uses less syllables. Anality shows up often here at Harvard, and it's making me tense...
...spread of AIDS is concerned, then, condoms only are essential for homosexual men engaging in anal intercourse. Even then, they're no panacea. There's a very good reason why before AIDS hit condom use was on the decline as a birth control method: it wasn't a very good one. At a minimum, many studies have shown, condoms do not prevent pregnancy in one out of 10 couples who rely on them for a year. Some estimates go as high as 20 percent...
Much of this may be attributable to misuse of condoms, but such misuse is endemic to them. And the technical problems of condom use are only heightened when used by homosexuals engaging in anal intercourse. The chief AIDS epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control told The New York Times this summer that condoms fail more often during anal than vaginal intercourse because the former is likely to involve "trauma" that may rip or pull off the condom...