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...questions, and destroys a few myths held by many (gay men included). He has never had anal intercourse, he prefers not to have oral intercourse, and he mildly dislikes kissing. What's left? The question betrays a mechanical outlook towards lovemaking. Reid's first experience didn't even involve orgasm, because he was having so much fun he didn't notice or care about not having one. This is an attitude more people (gay men included) should be aware...

Author: By Charles Bonnell, | Title: Gay in the Ivy League | 10/30/1973 | See Source »

What is your habit of intercourse? Do you always have a venereal orgasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1892-1920) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...question about orgasm, 13 of the women said "Always," 13 said "Sometimes" and 11 said "Never." Of course such a small sampling, though interesting, does not constitute the last scientific word on Victorian sexuality. The study's certain value lies in its uniqueness and extensive quotations from Victorian women openly discussing their intimate lives and cravings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1892-1920) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...typically torn woman, a wife for seven years by 1892, considered the ideal sexual routine to be "total abstinence with intercourse for reproduction only"-although she usually had an orgasm when she slept with her husband, and the next day felt "exceedingly well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1892-1920) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

That is just the kind of simpleminded, sentimental statement that acutely embarrasses Plarr. He despises sentimentality, machismo, everything he takes to be sugar-coated human delusion, and all protestations of love or emotion, which are curable, as he puts it, "by means as simple as an orgasm or an eclair." Plarr works devotedly trying to cure the poor in the barrio, and his judicious view of the corruption of the world is presented with such apparent justice and restraint that the reader only gradually ceases to doubt his judgment - a doubt that Plarr at last experiences himself. His pure disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Our Man in Gehenna | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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