Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLES, by John Updike. In his fifth and most ambitious novel, Updike shuffles the sex lives of ten couples as he examines adultery in the "imaginative quest" for life's meaning...
...really at fault here? In modern times, the church has been variously defined as Christ and His Body or, in more general terms, as mankind (which includes womankind) itself. Thus the villain is no longer just the hierarchy or the clergy as generally implied in such sterile digressions. The sex of the theologian is hardly a theological topic. I suggest there are more vital issues to discuss...
Supermale? Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes. In the female, these are a pair of Xs; in the male, an X and a Y (see diagram). When a sperm fertilizes an ovum, each supplies half the 46 chromosomes for the combination of cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains...
...gathered by an all-woman team of researchers in Scotland now suggests, he may be a supermale, overaggressive and potentially criminal. Dr. Patricia A. Jacobs and her colleagues working at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh knew that a number of mentally defective men with a double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions as criminals or hard-to-manage inmates.* This made the researchers wonder whether it was the extra Y that predisposed the men to aggression. They decided to check on simpler, XYY cases, previously seldom reported...
Does Dr. Blaine really think the students who answered his survey equate morality with sex? If this were true, why would so many of them be pushing for liberalization of restrictive parietal rules, which, if affected, would pass on to their future children an access to further "immorality?" And by the way, most would agree that the rise in illegitimate births is bad (if the illegitimate child is unwanted), but who's morally wrong in these cases? It's just possible that a few of those students who came out for morals meant that they wouldn't want their kids...