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Word: dildo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Former Ventriloquist Ted Marche, 53, a decade ago opened a small dildo factory in North Hollywood, convinced that another kind of profit might be extracted from the sexual enthusiasms of the young. Since then, he and his son Steven, 27, have sold 4,975,000 dildos. Today Marche Manufacturing turns out 350 different sexual products, and sales have risen an average 28% each year since 1970. Claims Dildodynast Steven Marche: "These toys have saved more marriages than all the preachers in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...last year is difficult to say with any certainly, partly because virtually all of the witnesses perceived the event with the assistance of psychedelic drugs. A few things are clear: that Yo Mo Dobro Jo was borne in upon a toilet seat clutching aloft in his right hand a dildo, and in his left some other spiritual object; that beer and spumoni were served, as symbols of the blood and body of the guest of honor; that after the intonation of some godly words, symbolic meatballs were cut away from a jockstrap and eaten; that residents of the Yale...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...general dither to be cute. Everything in Le Sex Shop is cute: the frustrated husbands and thwarted libertines, the perversions, the jokes, the whores, even the erotic apparatus. For the viewer, the effect of all this simultaneous coyness and brashness is like getting chucked under the chin with a dildo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Postcard | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...unquestionably graphic enough. Regan MacNeil, the twelve-year-old daughter of a movie actress, begins to act peculiar. She urinates on the living room rug in front of company. She uses a crucifix as a dildo. She grows incredibly strong and becomes the prime suspect in the brute-force slaying of a lovable drunken movie director. Her schoolwork suffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brimstone by the Numbers | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...judges' objections went beyond the newspaper's editorial content-typically, unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Place to Go but Up | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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