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...demonstrated a successful experimental treatment by dropping his trousers in front of hundreds of astonished colleagues at a conference), Viagra merely paves the way for the possibility of arousal. Erections must still be achieved the old-fashioned way, whether through desire, attraction, physical stimulation, the guilty thrill of an illicit affair, page 27 of The Godfather or what have...
...remembering the high of hypomania, are prone to dump their medicine. Within days after her January release, her friends reported, LeTourneau stopped taking Depakote and planned to see a "naturopath" instead. She quarreled with the doctors in her treatment program. Within weeks, she was in her car with her illicit young lover, kissing and talking, fully clothed, until they were discovered by police...
Remember the illicit thrill of cracking open a thermometer and pouring out the contents, marveling at the slippery weight of the shimmering puddle in your palm? Imagine, then, the excitement of two Arkansas teenagers when they found some 40 lbs. of the stuff--pure mercury--in an abandoned factory where it had been used to make neon lights. They and their friends dipped their hands and arms into it. They poured it on their bedroom floors to see it wobble and flow. They showed it off at school and handed it out in jars and vials. One youth dipped...
...arguments of those who seek to justify premarital sex is the manner in which they have framed their discourse. The terms invoked by defenders of progressive sexual liberties give teenagers an excuse to have sex before marriage as long as it is an intellectual pursuit. Pre-marital sex, like illicit drug use, is sometimes defended by an appeal to the value of "experimentation." Experimentation gives these activities the guise of objectivity and rationality so that in opposing them, we appear to be taking issue with nothing less than the quest for knowledge itself...
...small, illicit thrills of middle-class life is buying something by mail order and avoiding the sales tax. The mail-order houses had no idea how important this loophole is to their customers until last week, when they revealed an agreement to close it. Now they're backtracking like...