Word: libido
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Since its first issue in 1953, Playboy magazine has been trumpeting the triumph of the sexual revolution. Still, no matter how many times Editor Hugh Hefner interred American puritanism in innumerable installments of the Playboy Philosophy, he could never prove that the national libido has been unshackled...
Barney's libido is tied up in as many knots as a second-grader's shoelace. When three pretty girls in succession offer him amatory opportunities, he is pathetically and sometimes hilariously unable to follow through. The first, Elaine Navazio, frequents the Manhattan sea food restaurant that Barney manages and practically sends him semaphore signals over the shrimp cocktail. He invites her to a rendezvous -at his mother's apartment, which is empty during the day while his mother works. Barney supplies his own bottle of J & B and buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale...
...lethal Lessing story is One Off a Short List, about a failed novelist who decides he must "have" a successful woman. He chokes with jealousy watching her work calmly with her peers, but he mistakes his tears for libido. Gleaming icicles of detail fall from the page. Sizing up the woman's pleasant study, the man thinks, "I wouldn't like it if my wife had a room like this." Like a weary warrior goddess, Lessing views the seduction step by monstrous step. The woman gives in out of pity for the lout. "The stupid cow, the slut...
Affirm the Libido. Most of The Female Eunuch is a thorough exegesis of the tenets of Women's Lib-exaggerated, unreasonable, but written with passion, wit and a bottomless supply of earthy words from centuries back.* Though Greer is erudite, her book is far less intellectual than Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, with its long, scholarly analyses of Mailer, Lawrence, Miller and Genet. Greer is more interested in the popular press, which she combs for illustrations of her thesis. To her, woman has become a eunuch, a poor creature castrated and forced into passivity by men, who have...
Many American feminists assume that a woman's libido must be denied if she wants to get on in the world. Quite the contrary, says Greer. What vitiates women's energy is their suppression of their sexuality. Nor does Greer agree with the radical women who believe in giving up men as a revolutionary tactic. Sex, she says, is the arena of confrontation in which new values must be hammered...