Word: libido
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several women and men said the decline was just fine with them, that lower fertility would lower the possibility of unwanted pregnancies. One Wigglesworth freshman woman said, "The lower the better. It doesn't mean that men's libido is down. It's just less chance of trouble...
This semipublic humiliation is only one of the affronts that Jake must bear. His psychiatrist lays out a rigid regimen to revive the patient's libido. At night, Jake must plug himself into something called a nocturnal mensurator, a machine that registers and records signs of arousal during his sleep. He must buy and study "pictorial pornographic material" and also write out a sexual fantasy of his own imagining in not less than 600 words. Try as he might, Jake conies up 73 words short, despite much padding: "With lazy languorous movements she peels off the dress and reveals...
...cover of TIME for Oct. 27, 1924, featured a familiar face with penetrating gaze and neat white beard, and the story inside was sprinkled with what would soon become household words: ego, neurosis, libido. Only one year after the magazine was founded, Sigmund Freud, then 68 years old and still refining psychoanalysis in Vienna, made his first of three cover appearances (he reappeared in 1939 and 1956). Altogether, TIME has published more than a dozen cover stories on psychiatry. This week's article continues that long-running analysis with an examination of the anxieties and doubts that...
...dishes do not come cheap. A bowl of ordinary snake soup costs from $20 to $160, depending on the type of reptile used, and advocates of reptile recipes say that one must consume at least a bowl a day for ten days to obtain any discernible lift of the libido. Vipers, which are especially recommended for people suffering from neuralgia and tuberculosis, cost $140 each. The yellow python, valued as an all-purpose tonic, costs $200, while the most precious serpent of all, the paik-sa, or albino snake, celebrated for assuring longevity, has been known to bring from...
They are the high priests of libido--Malone is gloriously handsome, haunted by a vision of ideal love unattainable in a sterile, superficial homosexual world, Gatsby in drag; Sutherland, a Quentin Crisp, queer before it became chic, is doomed by his undersized member, a homosexual leper. With his speed and Quaaludes, his chiffons and Estee Lauder and bridge games and Egyptian groupies, Sutherland is Holleran's one truly brilliant creation. Sutherland provides much of the bitchy humor that makes Dancer, if nothing else, one of the funnier books of the year...