Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sincere thanks for your criticism of the art houses of Manhattan. The same is true of Chicago. I'd begun to think I had lost my appreciation of art because I find nothing intellectually stimulating or even entertaining about women prancing around that old sex box in their absolutely...
...WHAT THE SEX MANUALS DON'T TELL
Actually, the Digest cracked its boudoir boycott spectacularly in July 1956 with an article called "What Wives Don't Know About Sex." A flood of letters from readers suggested that do-it-yourself sex could be as gripping a topic for Digestion as the magazine's Pollyanna sagas of man against wilderness or science against cancer-the kind of uplift dear to Digest Editor (and Founder) DeWitt Wallace, son of a Presbyterian preacher. After a clinical follow-up piece on "What Husbands Don't Know About Sex," the magazine last June invited its readers to join Gynecologist...
...does not happen easily, it is up to any self-respecting husband to master the technique that will make it happen." Yet, soothes Dr. David R. Mace, the how-to-do-it books place "an exaggerated emphasis on so-called 'sexual technique.'" He reassures readers that the sex manuals are no substitute for old-fashioned passion. His own summary in the Digest's digest: "So long as the emotional feelings between the couple are right, so long as there is mutual trust and love, their bodies will invariably make the appropriate responses...
Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...