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...sexual element of the friendship was played up, and the girls became infamous as lesbian killers. Jackson certainly doesn't tone down the sexual angle in his film version. As shocking as the relationship may have seemed in 1954 New Zealand, it could seem hackneyed in this post-Kinsey day and age. However, in spite of modern omniscience and in spite (or because) of the overwrought treatment it receives in the film, the relationship convinces. Pauline writes in her diary that now she understands "the joy of this thing called sin," and after the bathtub scenes and experiences...
...crisis. To track the spread of the aids virus - and to mount an effective campaign against it - government researchers needed good data about how much risky sexual behavior (anal sex, for example) was really going on. But when they looked for scientific data about sex, they found little besides Kinsey and Masters and Johnson...
...first survey - Kinsey's - that got prudish America to talk about sex, read about sex and eventually watch sex at the movies and even try a few things (at least once). Kinsey's methods may have been less than perfect, but he had an eye for the quirky, the fringe, the bizarre. The new report, by contrast, is a remarkably conservative document. It puts the fringe on the fringe and concentrates on the heartland: where life, apparently, is ruled by marriage, monogamy and the missionary position. The irony is that the report Jesse Helms worked so hard to stop...
...most mysterious, misunderstood and rewarding of human functions," as TIME wrote in 1970. The subject then was Masters and Johnson's book Human Sexual Inadequacy, one of four studies of Americans' sex habits to which TIME has devoted cover stories. The others: Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Shere Hite's Woman and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (1987) and The Social Organization of Sexuality, the University of Chicago study that is the subject of this week's cover...
...Kinsey had some shocking news for mid-century America: women enjoy sex. In the cover story Henry Anatole Grunwald (later a TIME managing editor and TIME Inc. editor-in-chief) elegantly examined the emergence of 20th century American women from "under Queen Victoria's long shadow." These liberated souls were "by no means as frigid as they have been made out." Nearly all of them "went in for petting." Even older generations engaged in such hot pastimes as "flirting, flirtage, courting, bundling, spooning, mugging, smooching, larking, sparking." And all women needed romantic attention -- "generalized emotional stimulation," in Kinsey's starchy...