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...midst of an all-out campaign to promote condoms. By this week 66 million newspapers and magazines will have carried a drawing of a man and woman with the tag line "Trust is good; condoms are better." The Bonn government is planning explicit TV ads as well. A prudish concern about offending conservative sensibilities, says Dr. Hartmut Meyer of the federal Health Ministry, is now "too dangerous...
Almost all feminists are troubled by pornography. By its very nature it tends to degrade women and treat them as sexual playthings for men. The problem: how to take an effective stance without seeming prudish or giving comfort to the antifeminist right. Gloria Steinem has tried to promote a distinction between pornography, which should be opposed, and erotica, healthy sexual materials marked by mutuality and respect, presumably the kind of material men should be interested in, but usually aren't. Some feminists see porn as repellent but harmless masturbatory material for shut-ins, or as an expression of anxiety...
...apoplectic fit. Haunted by a vague sense that something is missing, Pippin sings and dances his way through battles, assassinations and orgies. David Chase's direction never shrinks from graphic depictions of decadent revelry, so this Pippin is not a show for the faint of heart or the prudish...
...gallery in the mid-'20s, these were interpreted as sexually coded images, and since O'Keeffe is now one of the icons of feminism, this reading is unlikely to change. She always denied it, with asperity. But then, she had to make her way in a world more prudish than our own, and one infinitely less receptive to the seriousness of women artists. One way to resist such pressures was to emphasize the formal and botanical over the symbolic and sexual. "I am not a woman painter," she once declared in a famous statement; her life's work...
...more than five years after Getty had abandoned the U.S. for a nomadic life in European hotels. He said he wanted to be halfway between the oil fields of California and the Middle East. Perhaps. But as his biographers make clear, the Continent was a better place than the prudish U.S. to carry on multiple sexual adventures. By 1960 he was established at Sutton Place, his estate some 23 miles from London. He never returned to America, not even when his twelve- year-old son Timothy was dying from a brain tumor in a New York hospital...