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...Tripp, a pro-gay psychologist and author of The Homosexual Matrix, thinks sadomasochistic practices are rare in heterosexuality and virtually nonexistent among lesbians, but relatively frequent in homosexuality because of "the additive effect of two males together." In Tripp's view, the average heterosexual who wants to play sadomasochistic games with his wife or girlfriend will be disappointed. Despite the male fantasy of a masked, booted, whip-wielding beauty, most women seldom want anything to do with SM. In male-to-male relationships, there is no such shortage of players, and leather bars make them easy to locate...
...enough when California courts ordered Novelist Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, to pay $75,000 last April to Hollywood Psychologist Paul Bindrim. He said he was defamed by Touching, Davis' 1971 novel involving an encounter group whose gig is communal nudity in warm pools. Now Davis, 45, feels doubly wronged: Doubleday has sued her for some $138,000, which includes legal costs, the money Bindrim won and interest. Several authors' groups and a number of writers, among them Irving Wallace, Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, have criticized the publisher for turning on one of its authors...
...periods talking and touching. Bindrim, 59, describes this as a way to teach people "how to be more open toward one another and to relate in a more authentic and satisfying manner." When Davis' book appeared, a central figure in it was Simon Herford, a pudgy, sadistic California psychologist with a Ph.D., described as "singularly Santa Clausy looking," with long white hair and sideburns. In 1971 Bindrim sued Davis and Doubleday, claiming that the supposedly fictional Herford was obviously he, and that the book's unsavory portrait was libelous...
Part of the talking-ape lore may come from the subjectivity of researchers. The Sebeoks note that when Koko is asked to give the sign for drink and makes the proper gesture but touches her ear instead of her mouth, Psychologist Patterson assumes not that the gorilla has made a mistake but that it is joking. If Koko smiles when asked to frown, she is displaying a "grasp of opposites." Say the Sebeoks: "Real breakthroughs in man-ape communication are the stuff of fiction...
What makes people sick? Medical science believes that little things-parasites, bacteria and viruses-are the villains. Psychiatry suggests that people sometimes make themselves, or, more probably, imagine themselves to be ill Richard Totman, an Oxford University psychologist, offers another explanation He holds society responsible. Drawing upon empirical and anecdotal evidence he argues that many apparently "physical" illnesses-including ulcers, hypertension and heart disease, as well as cancer and the state of mental deterioration known as senility-are the products of an individual's inability to behave as the world expects him to. "The risk of be coming seriously...