Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sex Explosion" article [July 11] revealed the childish and unsophisticated attitude of many people today regarding sex. Preoccupation with sex goes hand in hand with advanced civilization. Actually it is one of the facets of permissiveness. When the Roman Empire really got ripe with decadence and permissiveness, the emperors themselves practiced extreme licentiousness, including incest...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of adult Americans approve of sex education in one form or another. Under the concerted conservative attack, the programs are being questioned and even halted in many areas. Notably, boards of education in three California cities have been sued because of sex courses by citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses...
Health and Development. The very term "sex education" is a trifle misleading, because almost all programs include sex courses only as part of a broader study of health and human development. To be sure, the courses and their teachers vary considerably both in quality and competence. Typically, the programs include study of family living, growth, hygiene and, in the higher grades, responsible social behavior, the hazards of indiscriminate relationships and premarital sex, as well as basic facts about the reproductive system and its purpose. In many schools, parents can request that their children not participate...
...strongest opposition to sex courses comes from the middleaged; more often than not, it reflects their discontent with the changes taking place in a world different from that in which they grew up. The schools, for their part, are obviously not responsible for creating today's sexual revolution; they are merely trying to help students cope with it. To eliminate these courses is to deny many children access to essential knowledge that can ease their difficult psychic transition from adolescence to adulthood...
...attitude is ambivalent at best. As Zunin's assistant, Dr. Norman Barr, sums it up, "people want widows to marry, but not to date. They want them to be normal, proper women and go through the whole ritual again, but they're not supposed to have sex or pet or experience feelings meanwhile." As one woman admits, "I haven't really dealt with sex yet, but I have learned one thing. When you fight your feelings, that's when you're in trouble." So far, four of Zunin's widows have remarried...