Word: gregersen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Al Goldstein claims he is concerned about the S-M trend: "I'm uncomfortable with it, but you can't deny it exists." Sex Researcher John Money of Johns Hopkins University predicts it will soon subside, with little lasting effect. Edgar Gregersen, an anthropologist at New York City's Queens College who has been studying sadomasochists, is more concerned. He sees S-M "increasing everywhere. I think there's a certain experimentation going on?a 'deviant chic...
Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess fears the new acceptability of pornography has convinced many of her young male patients that their perverse compulsions are not really problems at all. Result: they do nothing to deal with their compulsions. Claims Shainess: "That is happening everywhere today." Anthropologist Edgar Gregersen makes a similar point about sadomasochists: "A great many people with S-M tendencies now conceptualize themselves as S-M people. This has a very great consequence. They are not so willing to change...