Word: laumann
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...published last week. Lack of desire or arousal, inability to achieve orgasm and painful intercourse are among the troubles reported. These difficulties generally decline for women as they get older, but for men, they increase. "This certainly helps explain why Viagra was such a phenomenon," says lead author Edward Laumann, who was a paid consultant to the pill's manufacturer. In fact, only a small percentage of sufferers ever seek professional help...
...women's Eight should be No. 1 in Gainesville, Georgia. Canadian heroine Silken Laumann, who won the bronze in Barcelona only weeks after a terrible rowing accident, is back in the single sculls...
...accurately these images reflect America's sexual interests, however, is a matter of some dispute. University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, whose 1994 Sex in America survey painted a far more humdrum picture of America's sex life, says the Carnegie Mellon study may have captured what he calls the "gaper phenomenon." "There is a curiosity for things that are extraordinary and way out," he says. "It's like driving by a horrible accident. No one wants to be in it, but we all slow down to watch...
...full results of the new survey are scheduled to be published next week as The Social Organization of Sexuality (University of Chicago; $49.95), a thick, scientific tome co-authored by Laumann, two Chicago colleagues - Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels - and John Gagnon, a sociologist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A thinner companion volume, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (Little, Brown; $22.95), written with New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata, will be in bookstores this week...
...report fully or thought it was nonsense. And it was according to their own prejudices and proclivities: Hugh Hefner didn't buy it, but the marriage counselors and Ph.D. types did." If anyone was initially reticent, it was the University of Chicago social scientists who conducted the poll; Edward Laumann, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels allotted only 90 minutes for their TIME interview. But once the session began, notes Chicago reporter Wendy Cole, "our discussion of sexual fantasies, adultery and homosexuality was so engrossing that more than four hours had passed before we noticed the time. Fortunately, stamina...