Word: orals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sarah Lawrence's Krupat starts his American Lit students with parallel readings in Genesis and Iroquois creation stories (which he sees as part of a neglected oral literary tradition). He dropped selections from William Faulkner in favor of Michael Gold's Jews Without Money, a tale of turn-of-the- century Manhattan...
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...
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...
...saliva at extremely low levels or not at all. Saliva is a hostile environment for the AIDS virus, explains Jay Levy of the University of California at San Francisco. It will kill half the viruses exposed to it within 30 minutes. Scientists are also skeptical about the danger of oral sex. But that risk is practically impossible to measure because most couples who engage in oral sex also have intercourse, and there is no way to analyze the risks separately...
...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...