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...therapist and professor of gynecology at Emory University in Atlanta, disagrees: "It's very clear that the spot exists. Some women have a small tissue buildup, a remnant of prostate vestige." He adds that the authors' additional claim-that a stimulated G spot may secrete a fluid-should serve to alleviate the anxiety of women who notice unexpected secretions during orgasm. "In the years before I was aware of the G spot," he says, "I saw about one patient a year who came to me very anxious because she seemed to be urinating during orgasm. She usually thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: In Search of a Perfect G | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raphael Soyer's Steadfast Gaze | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough people have the problem, ultimately someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Snake Venom and Earwax | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...supporters to end their 37-day hunger strike and resignedly toast one another with grape juice in plastic champagne glasses. But after the senate vote, more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ERA Dies | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Falklands, the British have wistfully and almost reflexively sought their sacred epoch, their more vigorous, regenerating myths. Their ships are afloat not only on the South Atlantic but on the mysterious fluid of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Time and the Falklands | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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