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...which followed the so-called age of permissiveness, had produced all kinds of rules and regulations. Necking in public was prohibited throughout Europe and trial marriages were out. All the strip clubs had been closed in 1977, and there were no more shows like Oh! Calcutta! Women's lib had also changed the whole male-female relationship. All over Europe now, women were the aggressors. Even Italians, Spaniards and Frenchmen, who had held out the longest, readily acknowledged the fact...
...once, Gloria Steinem, 36, the ranking elder stateswoman of Women's Lib, did not have the first word. Jack Lemmon, 48, the actor whose movie about a middle-aged sellout, Save the Tiger, is big at the box office, beat her to it. Both were in Cambridge, Mass., to receive awards from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Lemmon allowed that Ms. Steinem "scared the hell out of me." Would he rather be Man of the Year than Person of the Year? Replied Lemmon: "...I'm glad to be anything!" Steinem was somewhat more partisan. Accepting an award...
...sounded like a natural. Make a movie adaptation of a classic domestic drama (A Doll's House) by one of the earliest analysts of the modern woman's dilemma (Henrik Ibsen). In the leading role of Nora, cast the most glamorous of Women's Lib heroines (Jane Fonda). Have it directed by Joseph Losey (The Go-Between), a sympathizer with the feminist cause. Shoot it on location in the Christmas-card setting of Røros, Norway, and bring in such supporting players as David Warner (Nora's husband, Torvald), Trevor Howard (Torvald's friend...
SHERFEY'S INTERPRETATIONS of the Masters and Johnson report are no less positively inclined toward the Woman's Lib point of view. She suggests that woman, given optimal conditions for realizing her sexual potential, is virtually insatiable: one orgasm stimulates the need for another, and so on to sheer physical exhaustion. The only reason that woman's sexuality is now in such an apparent state of inhibition is that society has curbed her appetites, in the interest of stable monogamous relationships and successful child rearing. Sherfey plans a second volume in her study--a kind of "Civilization and its Discontents...
...supports divergent forms of sexuality? Greer drew audience laughter by replying: "I'm still heterosexual. That's my problem." Buckley: "Well, as I say, insecurity is a fact of life." When the laughter and applause died, the society rendered its decision: 546 for Women's Lib, 156 against...