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Word: dildos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novelists are exploring ever more intimately, not to say enviously, the wondrous achievements of recognized bedroom supermen. In fact, everyone-heroes, authors, readers-seems to be getting rather exhausted. Perhaps that is why so many novels this season deal with sex in its most mechanized and dehumanized form. The dildo is the feature; everybody, apparently, uses an artificial penis, or else needs one badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Make-Believe | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Deal, by G. William Marshall (511 pages; Bartholomew House; $6.95) is notable, by contrast, for its more traditional approach. No new-fangled gadgets here; just the plain, old-fashioned dildo. That is understandable, since the plot is a plain, old-fashioned story about the raunchy movie world. The hero is "the Baron," Hollywood's No. 1 superstar. He has a "tremendous problem." He is forever being "laughed out of bedrooms," so he asks the boys over an makeup to fashion a substitute artifact for him. He kills a girl with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Make-Believe | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

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