Word: kinsey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those angles have worked out. A comedy they hoped to produce last year about pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey fell apart during the development process. A film about disco icons the Village People derailed when they couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...
...Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male...
...swaggering as ever, more girls are insisting on condom use. The disease has also led to more frank talk and pleas for abstinence from parents and school and community-center health classes. Another surprising possibility is that teens are again attaching an old stigma to unwed motherhood. Marquita Kinsey, 15, dolled up in a Tommy Hilfiger dress, describes a neighborhood girl who became pregnant and quickly an outcast. "You lose a lot of friends," she says. "She had a baby shower and nobody came...
...Britain, France, Germany and Spain, announces that the vast proceeds from this event will go to a worthy cause. That cause is not homelessness or AIDS babies, but the Olfactory Research Fund, which Green also heads. The fund counts among its latest projects a joint study with the Kinsey Institute to determine the effect of fragrance on women's sexual fantasies. (Drakkar Noir, it seems, does wonders...
...absence of a Kinsey-style report on American reading habits, one can only guess what's going on in the dormitories, airport lounges and on the porch swings of the land. And yet there are signs of a kind of reading renaissance--from the rise of espresso-serving superstores to the emergence, on national TV and in countless living rooms, of book clubs and reading groups. At the least, it appears, reading books (or listening to them in the Jeep) is to the 1990s what gymgoing was to the '80s: something we plan to do, something we want...