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...London, for example, Novelist Tobias Smollett sarcastically found that "homosexuality gains ground apace and in all probability will become in a short time a more fashionable device than fornication." But the only society, apart from some primitive ones, that distinctly approved homosexual love was 5th century Greece. "We must blush for Greece," said the enlightened Voltaire. Even this much publicized example has often been overinterpreted. The homosexuality that Socrates and Plato knew rose only with the development of a slave culture and the downgrading of women to the level of uneducated domestics. This resulted in a romantic cult...
...long in secret to recapture that faith; we know that it was naive and we blush for it. And, thinking back on this second anniversary to those days of faith, two years seem like a long long time...
...ordered the Japanese film director. The cast took their places in the bedroom of a Tokyo inn. "Hajime [action]!" he shouted, and two underclad starlets tore into a frenzied catfight, clawing and crashing all over the minuscule room. The camera shots might have made Hugh Hefner blush, and the violence of the battle literally shook the foundations of the building-until an indignant old lady, the innkeeper, stalked in and demanded: "What goes on here? This is a respectable inn. I want an explanation, and it better be good...
...back in the fall of 1963 when a Harvard dean's innocent statement about parietal hours was translated by the Boston press into a "confession" of orgies behind the ivy-covered walls. Roger hasn't forgotten. "It was just wonderful," he recalls. "There was the Record-American ("Radcliffe Girls Blush at Harvard Disclosures," he remembered, drooling), and the rest of the Boston papers. When that got over with, I had to hunt a bit to find reading matter, but I finally picked up a copy of Whisper that had something about "Sex Perversions Rock Harvard." Once I'd found that...
...work for him. Says Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang Erda in Rheingold: "I would do anything for him. Why, I even took a curtain call wearing that black leather costume that opened up to display two enormous leather breasts with threeinch nipples. And I didn't even blush...