Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra...
Female hormones will also suppress a man's sperm production-the present pills do this-but they lower both libido and potency, along with more dangerous side effects. Vaccinating a woman against her husband's sperm, or vaccinating him against his own, has been investigated by Dr. Tyler's biologist brother Albert, with poor results...
...Libido. After 2� years, Hef graduated from college, married Millie and, with his cartoons tucked underneath his arm, canvassed the Chicago publishing world for a job. Nothing doing, so he took a job with a Chicago firm that produced and printed cardboard cartons. It was, says Hefner, the closest thing to journalism he could get. Eventually he landed a job with the subscription department of Esquire magazine. But when, after several months, he asked for a $5-a-week raise, he was turned down. He went to work briefly for a publication called Children's Activities, but he decided...
From then on, he aimed Playboy straight at the libido. Since sex is part of the whole man, he reasoned, why not devote part of a whole magazine to it? "Would you put together a human being that is just a heart and toenails?" he asks. So he put together a magazine that was largely bosom and thigh and not especially distinguishable from other girlie slicks. But he added more substantial content as he went along; today's Playboy is a well-stuffed product, bulging with intellectual ambitions and self-confidence. It even includes some tips from John Paul Getty...
BEAZLE (interrupting): Of course not. I intone: You have suffered an object loss in which you had an over-cathesis of libido and have been unable to decathect the libido and invest it in a new object. Do you follow...