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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppressed minority. This makes the homosexual a revolutionary, along with oppressed and militant groups like blacks and women. Altman expounds the validity of homosexual love with references both historical and philosophical. Says he: "Anthropological evidence suggests that homosexuality is neither alien nor perverse." He quotes Professor G. Rattray Taylor as stating that the Greeks "distributed their sexuality and were as interested in bosom and buttocks as in genitals." He resorts to Freud: "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Difference | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

FURTHER RESEARCH may provide a bonus of new genetic, chemical and electronic ways to enhance sexual pleasure. Physicist John Taylor, in fact, professes to fear that sex will become so much fun that people will want to give up practically all nonsexual activities. Author Gordon Rattray Taylor predicts that it may become possible to "buy desire," or switch it on or off at will; the playboy might opt for continuous excitement and the astronaut for freedom from sexual urges during space flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE MIND: From Memory Pills to Electronic Pleasures Beyond Sex | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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