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Letitia Peplau, a UCLA psychologist who has conducted research on loneliness among college freshmen, cites one last freshman difficulty unique to students at exclusive private colleges like Harvard. "At Harvard," Peplau says, "most people are leaving home to go to school. Here at UCLA, a great many students live in the area and come right in with their whole gang from high school. There's no social transition for them...
...makes the case for the existence of a bean-shaped erogenous zone in women; when this spot is stimulated by deep pressure, it produces vaginal orgasm, distinctly different from clitoral orgasm. The spot amounts to a "female prostate gland," say the three authors, Alice Kahn Ladas, a New York psychologist; Beverly Whipple, a registered nurse and sex counselor in southern New Jersey; and John D. Perry, a Connecticut psychologist...
...evidence in the book is less suited to convince most professionals than it is to produce a new hunt for high-tech sexual pleasure, and possible frustration. "A lot of women are going to be upset if they can't find it," says Midge Wilson, a social psychologist and a firm believer in the G spot. Adds Marriage Counselor Marion Holtzer of Chicago: "It's going to be like the Grail." Concludes Therese Baker, chairman of DePaul University's sociology department: "It's less interesting whether the Grafenberg spot is there than that people want...
...teaching her own daughters to stand even straighter and stronger. "Conceptions of beauty start in the family," says Harvard Psychologist Jackie Zilbach, "and they start very young. Little girls tend to follow their mothers' notions of beauty." The previous generation of mothers had not put much store in exercise, for themselves or their children. But members of the Jane Fonda generation have remade their own bodies, and are encouraging their lithe young daughters to start from scratch. In Chicago, new mothers are flexing the arms and legs of their month-old babies in an infant aerobics course. By the time...
...case may be a happy exception. Throughout the nation, thousands of couples who have survived Monday Night Football, jogging and the ERA debate are facing a trickier challenge. The computer that they were told would bring the family closer together may now be driving them apart. Says San Diego Psychologist Thomas McDonald: "They're beginning to realize they're losing their spouses to a machine...