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...heroine of The Devil in Miss Jones. The movie is a standard little immorality play about a shy girl running graphically amuck in her own hardcore, X-rated fantasies. At last count it had grossed more than $8 million. Spelvin was paid a mere $500 (about $33 per staged orgasm, by one attentive critic's calculation). After making the 1973 movie, she did other similar epics, and by last summer had fetched up in Maine doing straight summer-stock theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Jail for Pornographers? | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...West. After an analysis of reports from six experimental sex clinics in the U.S.S.R. and foreign surveys, he concludes that only 18% of Russian women suffer from nyet orgazm, compared with 40% of French and 41% of English women. Moreover, he finds that 16% of Russian women have an orgasm during every or almost every sex act, with as many as 44% making it more than half the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: From Russia with Love | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...instance, is one of three women at the Berkeley Sex Therapy Group, run by five psychologists near the University of California campus. In the Los Angeles area, at least 30 psychologists and psychiatrists refer patients to surrogates, including two men who work with women who have difficulty achieving orgasm. There are also a few surrogates in the New York area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Trick or Treatment? | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...massaging, along with talk between patient and surrogate about sexual likes and dislikes. The objective: to overcome in males what Los Angeles Sex Therapist William Hartman calls "performance anxiety." Later sessions advance to genital contact, mutual stroking and eventually penetration. The emphasis is not so much on achieving orgasm as on reaching a state of bodily awareness that some surrogates call "sensate focus." In the $2,180 program offered by the Berkeley group, each often 2½-hour sessions with the surrogate is followed by an hour's meeting of patient, surrogate and psychologist. The surrogate's share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Trick or Treatment? | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...ideology of sisterly love." The subculture of feminist discussion groups and lectures on campuses and elsewhere has brought more and more women together, encouraging friendship and even affection between them. It is not only feminism, however, but also the emphasis by Masters and Johnson, among others, on the clitoral orgasm that has led to more sexual experimentation. In addition, according to Psychologist John Money, expert in gender identity at Johns Hopkins University, the single major cause of the new acceptance of bisexuality was the invention of mass birth control, which separates recreational sex from procreational sex and influences attitudes toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Bisexuals | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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