Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heterosexual; it won't happen to me." Dr. Richard Carlson, the director of health services at Columbia University in New York City, has countered youth's "immortal" feelings by installing condom dispensers in the health-services-building rest rooms and distributing a 31-page pamphlet on safe...
Many universities are sponsoring AIDS-education programs and classes. Two weeks ago, the University of California, Berkeley held a national symposium on "AIDS and the College Campus," attended by about 435 representatives from nearly 90 colleges, at which the reportedly first straight safe-sex educational film, Norma and Tony, was shown. It indicated that there is much progress to be made in this new field. For 30 minutes, Norma and Tony painstakingly covered themselves with spermicides, condoms and latex squares before engaging in intercourse. The film was so cautiously clinical that a group of viewers quickly lost interest in Norma...
...slow work of education continues. An organizer of safe-sex programs at the Claremont Colleges in Southern California explains his teaching tactics: "You have to be sneaky. You tell them it is about sex, and when they're there you tell them it's mostly about AIDS. By then they're already sitting down." Claremont sponsored a "Sex and the Single Student" week during which 2,700 condoms were handed...
What does all this leave to the imagination? What quarter remains for fantasy, for risque comedy or high melodrama? Do big-screen heroines engage in safe sex? Bisexuality was a popular metaphor in '70s entertainment, but it is hard to picture a film like Sunday, Bloody Sunday being made now. Its sexually ambivalent central character would clearly be a villain. Five years ago, Beyond Therapy, an amiable stage comedy about bisexuals, was well received in London, but audiences at screenings of the forthcoming movie version are uneasy with it. Even to blase sophisticates, bisexuality is becoming ethically questionable...
...officials will sponsor a press junket to the Las Trojes region, but only under tightly controlled circumstances. "It gets more frustrating all the time," complains a U.S. photographer based in Tegucigalpa. "You are just not allowed to get anywhere near any kind of action even if it is patently safe...