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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take issue with your statement, "There is no simple answer or ready remedies to the problem of 'Youth for Sale on the Streets' " [Nov. 28]. There is in fact an obvious solution: eliminate the market. Not once did you mention those who pay for the services of these teens. Without their lust there would be no Mafia involvement, no pimps, no juvenile prostitutes. The sick clods who are degrading these young people need to be strung up by their thumbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

There is an answer to teenage prostitution, or prostitution in general: legalization. Cities that allow it can control it and confine it to one area. Where there is a regulated "red light" district, there is no coercion of the women, no need for pimps, no procurement on the streets. The money goes to the workers and the city treasurer instead of to the underworld and payoffs to local politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Reiling asked all speakers to answer the question of why Harvard should single out South Africa from among other repressive regimes for such corporate action...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and Eric B. Fried, S | Title: Students Demand Anti-Apartheid Action | 12/14/1977 | See Source »

...preference for performing oral sex on women is growing. About 80% of men engage in the practice, and only 3% of those find it "boring or unpleasant." In answer to "What would you like to do more often?" the top two male choices were different sexual positions, and oral sex. which the authors call "the most rapidly growing turn-on in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Hite-ing Back | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Hunts are not sure why the phenomenon arose and, with other researchers, are currently examining gull hormones for a possible answer. But the likely explanation is simply a shortage of males. If a female cannot attract a permanent mate, but can manage to become impregnated by a mated male, it makes sense to move in with another female who can share duties of protecting and feeding the young. Such behavior, says George Hunt, "would increase the probabilities of raising the young from zero to about 10%." So far the Hunts have "tentative, preliminary evidence" of a male shortage among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Lesbian Gulls | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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