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Like their predecessor Alfred Kinsey. they have found that poking into the sex lives of Americans can be unsettling. Their first and most impressive book. Human Sexual Response, published in 1966, was a meticulous, pioneering inquiry into the physiology of sex; it dispelled myths about this taboo subject that even doctors believed in-for example, that sexual activity stops with age. But their work, especially such controversial aspects of it as their use of sexual surrogates as partners assisting in the treatment of impotent men. brought upon them the wrath of the pious...
Masters and Johnson are at last letting the public in on what they found. In Boston next week Little, Brown and Co. is publishing their widely awaited Homosexuality in Perspective ($17.50), a densely documented 450-page tome that has already prompted gossipy guesses about what it does and does not reveal...
Homosexuals, who do not have the burden of deciphering the opposite sex, generally communicate better. Committed, attached homosexuals are less preoccupied with orgasm than married heterosexuals, and more aware of the exact level of their partners' sexual excitement. And single gays did better than single straights. Masters and Johnson found the same patterns among the am-bisexuals: they acted like homosexuals when they were with homosexuals (e.g., more communication) and like heterosexuals while making heterosexual love (e.g., an assumption that the male should take the lead). To Masters and Johnson, this is clearly a result of "cultural influence" -ambisexuals pick...
...primary fantasy found in the two heterosexual groups was a recurring daydream of sex with a different partner. On the other hand, the leading fantasies of gay men involved body parts-usually the genitals and buttocks. Homosexual fantasies about forced sex were more violent and sadistic than those among heterosexuals. Straight women repeatedly conjured up images of gang rape but the assaults were relatively tame: although the woman is given no choice in the matter, she is treated lovingly by a circle of panting admirers. In most cases the lesbian version of these fantasies showed a theme of revenge against...
...diplomatic assignment the following year and was named to the Cabinet by his good friend Harry Truman in 1948. A conservative Democrat who served as the Administration's envoy to the business community, Sawyer denounced stringent antitrust legislation and advocated lower corporate taxes and a balanced budget. He found himself severely tested in 1952, when Truman seized the steel industry in order to avert a strike. The President ordered Sawyer to administer the mills and grant workers and owners wage and price increases. Unhappy with the seizure, Sawyer acted only when assured of the order in writing. Resigning...