Word: coition
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Human Sexual Inadequacy had a different message: Sex is a skill that can be perfected. The 1970 cover, written by associate editor John Koffend, placed sexual "dysfunction" (a word Masters and Johnson popularized) in the context of "an era of pop sex, which fictionally and visually glorifies coition." Though at the time the two researchers were considered architects of erotic fulfillment, TIME underlined their mission as marriage savers: "The best communication of all is conjugal...
...sympathetic, saintly heroine, but I find her preposterous and unappealing. One should recall that, in Shakespeare's time, an official betrothal was considered legally binding. But it is hard to accept Isabella's willingness to see her brother executed for seducing his unofficial fiancee while condoning the prenuptial coition of Angelo and his former betrothed. Surely a novice in one of the most strict Catholic orders would share the Church's position against consummation before the marriage ceremony. And how does one square her extreme statement that "More than our brother is our chastity" with her decision, at play...
...kind of surrealistic daze, Fidelman moves on to Venice, letting himself in for another of those tormenting Malamud women whose specialty is interrupted coition. The woman's homosexual husband, Beppo, interrupts this time to seduce Fidelman from his wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points...
...extraordinarily detailed account of the female's arousal and progression to orgasm (TIME, Jan. 7) that attracted the most immediate attention. The descriptions are based upon observations and color movies made of 10,000 orgasms, achieved by 382 women and 312 men, under laboratory conditions, sometimes in coition, sometimes by masturbatory techniques. The carefully collected data have a far more immediate application than Dr. Kinsey's massive addition to the libraries of sexology...
...gone beyond all limits. Americans have quickly run through abstract expressionism, action painting, pop, op, kinetic and minimal art. With gravely innocent eye, the public contemplates art consisting of a real chair or a coiled rope, of limp sculpted toilets, of nudes that go through movements of coition. Like the young, artists are traditionally supposed to break with tradition, but there is hardly any tradition to break with. Irish, Southern and Jewish writers have been among the most productive in the U.S.-probably because they still have a tradition to work in, or to flout, if they so choose...