Word: autoeroticism
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Sex & War. Explicit or perverted sex in novels is hardly news, but this year some weighty literary reputations are writing almost exclusively about sex. John Updike's Couples, said to be the "big book" that critics have accused him of shirking for years, is about ten married or mismarried...
Sartre plunges earthily to the center of all this confusion. "Seeking excitement and pleasure," he explains, "Genet starts enveloping himself in his images as a polecat envelops itself in its odor." Darling Daintyfoot and Divine are projections of Genet's imagination, conjured up to excite himself as he lay...
*Though a hermaphrodite like the leech (see above), the snail nevertheless goes courting. He carries a dartlike structure (spiculum amoris) which is discharged during the preliminary stages of mating, stimulating his companion to autoerotic activity.
As at many another U. S. institution, the name of Frank N. D. Buchman was only a name at Princeton, vaguely signifying personal interviews on religion, until last fortnight when Mr. Buchman's approach to religious problems, through his subjects' autoerotic tendencies was first made generally public (TIME...
As an example, he pointed out that a recent survey of sex habits of over 2,000 women showed that two-thirds of them indulged in autoerotic practices-a condition contrary to the general idea. The same sex survey showed that 87% of all marriages are happy. Dr. Dickinson continued...