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Class View. Sex behavior, Kinsey reports, seems to have a class angle. There is no "American pattern" of sexual behavior according to his findings; instead, there are differences as great as anthropologists find between the sexual patterns of different racial groups in remote parts of the world. The U.S. differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Men Behave | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

With the post-Civil War social and financial revolution came a change to ostentation and opulence as a way of life for the nation's "leaders" and an ideal for the masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

The club is frequented mostly by lieutenants and captains. It has dim lights, small tables crowded around a cozy dance floor. German girls (some wearing U.S. quartermaster stockings) give up resisting U.S. attacks by about 10 p.m. Petting in various degrees develops-described conservatively by a U.S. Army nurse who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms & the Man | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Adult leaders used "guide sheets" (which they kept out of sight) to steer discussion groups ("huddles") through such intricate and disturbing topics as Hand Holding, Kissing, Necking, Petting, Love Play, Mating. One delegate explained: "It's like a gab session only more refined, of course."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Bobby-Sox Convention | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

One lobby billboard advertised "brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn." Across the nation, marquees blazed with titles like Red Hot Romance, Give Her Anything, The Fourteenth Lover. Hollywood was being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate and censorship bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Movies & Morals | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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