Word: orality
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Parents took no joy in trying to explain to children how the President got in so much trouble, unless they could get away with saying that oral sex means that it's not written down. But it was a unique chance to explain plenty of other things. If the year of O.J. made us forensics experts, this year was a civics lesson. We're constitutional scholars now. The irony of this seamy scandal is that it forced us to return to First Principles, to passages of a dusty Constitution we rarely have occasion to consult in the normal course...
...frank sex talk, and the rise of Viagra brought to mind graphic images--featuring Bob Dole. Granted, in the Clinton scandal, 13 months of saturation coverage and prurient detail have conspired to make this episode especially troubling. Yet its enduring legacy may simply be the adding of the term oral sex and its vernacular synonym to the list of once avoided phrases that are now used openly--the continuation of a trend that was well under way and probably inevitable...
Seeking to fulfill Rey's final wishes but realizing the lack of written evidence regarding the oral bequests, Ong said she proposed a compromise, whereby 85 percent of the joint account would fund the six additional charities Rey named...
When Dr. George Lundberg was fired last month as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, he didn't get mad. He started talking to 60 Minutes. That alarmed the A.M.A. even more than its original gripe with Lundberg--his decision to publish a study on oral sex just as the impeachment trial was starting--and the board quickly began negotiations to rehire...
...with science or medicine." The sin? Lundberg published a study--begun in 1991, analyzed in '95 and presented to JAMA in late '98--on the attitudes of U.S. college students toward sex. Among the findings: 59% of the student group did not view a person who has had oral sex as having "had sex," which could be seen as supportive of Bill Clinton. The firing is the latest in a string of controversies. In 1997 the AMA agreed to endorse Sunbeam medical equipment in what many saw as a conflict of interest. Last year it alienated conservatives by supporting...