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Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin first interviewed Dr. William Howell Masters and Virginia Johnson for a 1970 TIME cover story marking the publication of their landmark study, Human Sexual Inadequacy. So when Galvin, who has specialized in reporting on the behavioral sciences for ten years, learned earlier this year that the researchers were about to publish a major study of homosexuality, she read the book in manuscript. Her report led TIME'S editors to the conclusion that here was an excellent opportunity not only for an exclusive preview of the new research but also for a more general look...
...other articulate members of the growing "gay" minority, and on the correspondents' firsthand observation of their lifestyle, from San Francisco's Castro Street to New York City's Christopher Street, from Macon, Ga., to Mankato, Minn. In exploring the new book's findings, Ruth Galvin learned from Masters and Johnson that gays and straights have more in common than perhaps most people thought. Says she: "My biggest surprise was to discover how much heterosexuals could learn from homosexuals about closeness, warmth and communication. I had always assumed that it was the other way around...
...aspect to sex affects homosexuality. The conclusions are stated with caution and caveats-the sample is small and may not be representative of the general homosexual population. There is also a warning that sex in the lab may differ from sex at home. As Masters told TIME Correspondent Ruth Galvin: "We can't say what happens beneath the sheets when the lights are out." The prose is opaque, studded with such assaults on English as "stimulative approach opportunity" (foreplay) and "vocalized performance concerns" (talking about sex). Still, Masters and Johnson have produced a thought-provoking inquiry into the sexual life...
Furnishing her own experienced analysis of the profession was Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, a senior correspondent who has been specializing in studies of behavior for ten years. Last spring she received the Robert T. Morse Writer's Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her "outstanding contributions to the public understanding" of the discipline. For this story she drew on interviews with biochemists, social workers, patients, psychologists and psychiatrists and on conferences she has attended across the U.S. and in Europe. "What has always impressed me most about psychiatrists," says Galvin, "has been their capacity for selfcriticism. That psychoanalytic imperative...
State Rep. William F. Galvin said yesterday the date the bill becomes effective should be postponed until the summer. The transition to the higher drinking age might be unnecessarily wild because of promotions by bars that cater to younger drinkers, Galvin said...