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...Sex is alive and well on campus, but it seems to be subdued by the standards of the early '70s. Says Louis A. Pyle Jr., director of university health services at Princeton: "Although some freshmen boys arrive here asking, 'Where's the party? Where's the orgy?,' students today are more monogamous. There's not a lot of promiscuity. This is substantiated by the fact that we see very little gonorrhea and no syphilis." At Mount Holyoke, Senior Jennifer Shaw observes: "The trend for women is not to sleep with men they meet at parties." The one-night stand...
...University: "They have already had their share of heartbreaks in broken relationships. They have already been the dumpee or dumper, and they don't want that any more." Instead of floating into relationships, she says, students are more likely to go out socially in groups. "It isn't that sex as recreation has gone back into the closet," she says. "It's just that it's not considered a primary pursuit any more...
...days of the hard hustle are gone." Says Stephen Greer, 33, co-owner of three Chicago nightclubs: "If you don't work in a candy store, every piece of candy looks great. But today everybody works in a candy store?it's so easy for everybody to have sex. So people are becoming more selective: holding out for just the right candy, just the right person...
Manhattan Sex Therapist Shirley Zussman says that her patients these days complain about the emptiness of sex without commitment. "Being part of a meat market is appalling in terms of self-esteem," she says. "Fears, of both loneliness and intimacy, are a backlash against the 'cool sex' promoted during the sexual revolution." Psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw, director of the Sexual Dysfunction Clinic at Chicago's Loyola University, has a waiting list of 200 couples seeking help. "Many have tried group sex and the swinging scene, but for them it has been destructive and corrosive. Often the partner who suggested it first...
...sexologists these days, the new frontier is inhibited sexual desire (ISD). The problem accounts for 30% to 50% of the case load for many therapists. "We didn't look for excitement problems in the mid-'70s," says Therapist Stephen Sloan in Atlanta. "It was assumed that everyone desires sex." Some therapists, accustomed to reporting 75% to 90% success rates in treating other sexual difficulties, report a 10% to 30% success rate in treating ISD. Philadelphia Sexologist Harold Lief has estimated that 20% of all adult Americans are afflicted with ISD. "It is clear that we are talking about enormous numbers...