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First there was the news everybody wanted to hear: a New York physician writing in Cosmopolitan reassured women that there is practically no risk of contracting AIDS through ordinary vaginal or oral sex, even with an infected man. The vaginal secretions produced during sexual arousal, he wrote, keep the virus from penetrating the vaginal walls. His explanation: "Nature has arranged this so that sex will feel good and be good for you." Then came the news nobody wanted to hear: Sex Gurus William Masters and Virginia Johnson proclaimed in their new book about AIDS that "the epidemic has clearly broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just How Does AIDS Spread? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Similarly, there were no differences in practices such as oral sex and French kissing among the couples; nor did it seem to matter how often they had intercourse. One wife became infected after only one exposure, and another after just eight. Yet eleven women remained uninfected after more than 200 sexual contacts. The researchers speculate that the originally infected spouses may have somehow differed in their ability to transmit the virus. Another possibility: their husbands and wives may have differed in susceptibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just How Does AIDS Spread? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...investigation stemmed from an incident last month in which the four students confronted Professor William S. Cole, who is Black, at the end of his class, "American Music in the Oral Tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Students Suspended For Confrontation With Professor | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Swaggart's tearful confession came at a perilous moment, not only for him but for the raucous world of TV evangelism, which was still stumbling toward recovery after a disastrous 1987. Oral Roberts kicked off last year's proceedings by announcing to an incredulous public a divine mandate to raise $8 million, or God would "call me home." Then it was Jim and Tammy Bakker and the revelation of Jim's payment of $265,000 in ministry funds to cover up sexual straying. Next came the revelations of the Bakkers' morass of financial mismanagement and personal aggrandizement at PTL. Suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...school. Known as a "hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Hell Camp | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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