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...County (N.Y.) court with bipartisan support. Refusing offers to run for statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker...
...fact that American criticism of Russian repression, led by Senator Henry Jackson (see box), is a threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both of whom had been harassed by authorities because of their...
...idea of using surrogates to help alleviate such problems as premature ejaculation and impotency was developed by Dr. William Masters, co-author of the pioneering study Human Sexual Response. At his St. Louis sex clinic in the late 1950s, Masters enlisted women to work as sex partners with unmarried male patients under the guidance of therapists. The program proved success ful. Over an eleven-year period, Masters and his partner Virginia Johnson provided surrogates for about 50 men; the treatment overcame impotency problems for at least five years in 75% of the cases...
...Louis clinic stopped using surrogates for a variety of reasons not the least of which was a lawsuit against Masters brought by the irate hus band of an alleged surrogate. Masters regrets having had to give up the surrogate therapy. "The success statistics with single impotent males have completely reversed," he says. "We now have a failure rate...
...therapy program at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, "but what happens when he wants to have sex with his partner?" Adds Dr. Helen Kaplan, author of The New Sex Therapy, who directs a similar program at New York Hospital's Payne Whitney Clinic: "Lonely people can be helped by surrogates, but I would try to work in psychotherapy to figure out why the person is so lonely. We have to get humanity and eroticism back into sex. You can't do that if you pay someone $100 to go to bed with...