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American students practice a "kissing promiscuity," tend to level off at heavy petting so that the girl retains her "technical virginity."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex on the Campus | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Actor Taylor, who has learned history the hard way (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table), performs like a student fresh out of a cram session, stunned but effective. He even manages to sputter a little Arabic, or words to that effect-"umptu niagda brruschk!"-when the occasion requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Apparently drink sometimes strengthens a pass defense and on other occasions weakens it. Around three-fifths of the students did feel that drinking generally accompanies or facilitates petting, however.

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Yale Center of Alcohol Studies Investigates Drinking Habits of Carefree Undergraduates | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

Hearst papers generally gave the story maximum play, while simultaneously cluck-clucking on their editorial pages. Hearst's New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror, which seldom passes up any story with a sex angle, explained to its readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: K-Day | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

The number of women who went in for petting jumped to 91% among those born in the first decade of the century, and to 99% among their kid sisters and their daughters. The proportion of those who would carry petting, as Kinsey puts it. "to the point of orgasm'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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