Word: semen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mailer accuses Millett of technologizing sex. He feels that such schemes as semen banks and extra-uterine receptacles to liberate women from child-bearing are "a way of guaranteeing that the end-game of the absurd is coitus-free conception monitored by the state...
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes...
...body manufactures fewer of them. However, some sperm are left "in the pipeline" at the time of operation, so for the next six to twelve acts of coitus a contraceptive must be used. Most surgeons require that their patients return after four to twelve months and leave a semen sample for analysis to make sure that neither vas deferens has joined itself up again...
...shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What he was full of was clearly semen," says Sir Godfrey, "but we put it more delicately...
...result of uncommon-sense reasoning, doctors are inducing early abortions with prostaglandin F2 alpha, a hormone-like substance derived from semen. The prostaglandins are a class of chemicals, 16 of which have now been isolated, that were originally believed to be secreted in the prostate gland. The first were found in human semen, which is still the richest source known. Now prostaglandins are known to occur in many other human tissues and in menstrual fluid. They are also found in the semen of sheep, and it was from the seminal vesicles of rams that medical researchers obtained their early supplies...