Word: kissing
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...Adolescent Sexual Health. And while the average age at first intercourse has come down only a year since 1970 (currently it's 17 for girls and 16 for boys), speed is of the essence for the new generation. Says Haffner: "If kids today are going to do more than kiss, they tend to move very quickly toward sexual intercourse...
...herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger of becoming a "character." She didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette out of his mouth" to bestow a kiss, who forgot the name of the youngest of his nine children, who "dumbly refused the ordinary effort of being a father." So she ended up unhappy in a different way, having to look away when she sees "small children, hopping around...too beautiful to bear...
Ulysses made Joyce famous, although not always in a manner to his liking. When a fan approached him and asked, "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Joyce said, "No, it did lots of other things too." But more important, Ulysses became a source book for 20th century literature. It expanded the domain of permissible subjects in fiction, following Bloom not only into his secret erotic fantasies but his outdoor privy as well...
...music suddenly turned as thick and sweet as a malted. Jazz had the power, but jazz was for grownups, and its impact was largely instrumental. Anyone who wanted to listen to a song, and take something away from it that would last a little longer than a good-night kiss, turned on to folk...
That was soon all too clear. Pop culture, once the domain of allusion--the cunning metaphor, the fade-out after that first kiss--now needed to spell and shout it out, as culture exploited every renegade adolescent impulse. The escape into elegance was replaced by the fun house of sensuality. In the new gross-out culture, bad taste was the official taste. Sit-com kids, once kittens and princesses, went rampantly rude. The inner child was triumphant--hear him roar...