Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nearly half a century of making a comedy of sex while some other business ladies were making it a commodity, billowy Sexagenarian Mae West, heavily flanked by a troupe of gorgeous muscle men, undulated about Manhattan's flesh-flaunting Latin Quarter nightclub, but between acts, in her dressing room, proved to be as unpretentious as anybody's grandma. Bedeviled by censorship in her earlier days, Playwright West (Sex, Pleasure Man) is now, strangely, all for watchdogs over public morality: "Why, if it wasn't for censors, there'd be more and more wickedness...
...much-touted sex difference, the Drs. Mills found none. Women in city, suburb and country had about the same lung-cancer rates as nonsmoking men in the same areas. They concluded that the rate appears lower in women because fewer pick the combination of heavy smoking and driving in heavy traffic...
...gatherings in dresses into which she had obviously been sewed, and under which there was just as obviously nothing at all. She made a series of not-so-Dumb-Dora remarks in public that soon added up to a widely quoted Monroe Doctrine of life and love. (Monroe on sex: "Sex is a part of nature. I'll go along with nature." On men: "We have a mutual appreciation of being male and female." On her walk: "I learned to walk as a baby, and 'I haven't had a lesson since...
...question was: Should they bother to invite the girls in the class to go along on their picnic? Finally, one boy produced the ultimate argument for the opposition. "All I know," said he, "is that Dr. Gesell says that the interest of boys at our age in the opposite sex is purely negative...
This is an age for fads and for a new acceptance of the opposite sex. "No twelve-year-old party can be guaranteed immune from some form of kissing game-a most natural expression for Twelve." But while some of the girls are already thinking about marriage, some boys are determined to remain bachelors forever. The boys develop an apparently irresistible desire to tease a girl. "Soon they are snatching a girl's wallet or pencil box and are off to hide...