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...section begins with three stories by Contributing Editor Virginia Adams, a veteran Behavior writer. One piece examines some new thinking about learning sex roles and describes the surprising case histories of children who have undergone sex change. Another is a report on British Biologist Alexander Comfort and his predictions for the future of unconventional sexual arrangements. The last article is a series of short communiques from the battle for equality between the sexes. One of these briefs makes clear that the contest is not always one-sided; a bank that had been providing free transportation to women employees found itself...
Many observers take it for granted that sexual "swinging" will never be more than a fringe phenomenon involving a few far-out types. Not so, suggests British Biologist Alexander Comfort. In the years to come, Comfort predicts, more and more couples may turn to group sex for satisfactions once sought only in traditional patterns of family living...
There are other benefits in group sex. Biologist Comfort believes. "The person who gets into this scene tends to lose a lot of neurotic anxieties. Women learn to say no to sex when they do not really want it, and the men to whom they say no find that "refusal is not rejection of them as people." Both men and women come to tolerate their homosexual impulses better. Moreover, "watching the sexual behavior of other human beings is not just stimulating, but educating." Men especially get a more realistic perspective on machismo, "the neurotic expectation that the male should...
...Biologist Comfort, a physician, barely touches on the negative aspects of group sex, though he does acknowledge that it could "devalue relationships." Not all behavior experts are totally opposed to group sex, but few take such a sanguine view as Comfort. Many believe that participants are often emotionally disturbed, immature men and women whose sexual activities provide distraction but no solution to basic problems. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other, and use wife-swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Anthropologist...
...Salvador E. Luria, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, is the head of the new $6 million Center for Cancer Research at MIT. The Center will be funded by grants from the Federal government...