Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
...finding that it resulted not only from cell tests ("Pap smears") but also from many other factors. And in pursuing their search for the causes of the disease, they are amassing evidence suggesting that many, perhaps most cases of uterine cancer are triggered by a common virus transmitted during sexual contact. This does not mean that uterine cancer is either an "infectious" or "venereal" disease in the usual sense; but it does suggest measures by which the disease might, to a great extent, be prevented...
...disease is especially prevalent among women who have their first sexual experience early in life, and those who have many sex partners; it is somewhat more prevalent among women who have their first pregnancy early. Frequency of sexual intercourse with a single partner does not seem to be related to the disease. A factor unrelated to social class is a woman's medical history; if she reports frequent spotting, inter-menstrual bleeding or discharge, she runs a 3½ times greater-than-average risk of developing uterine cancer...
...virus technically known as Herpesvirus hominis, Type II, closely related to the herpes virus, Type I, which causes fever blisters around the mouth. Type II infects the genital regions of both sexes; it is found in smegma, the secretion under the foreskin, and is readily transmitted during sexual contact...
Race so disposed of, Terrence McNally's Noon then proceeds to burlesque our other national bugaboo-sex, McNally's contribution brings together a variety of sexual perverts (and, in all honesty, some who are not so perverted). all of whom are responding to a series of titillating newspaper classifieds. The evening's most straight-forward stretch of comedy. it is probably also the evening's most entertaining bit. From Eric Davin's fag to Sharon Klurifs orgy-bent Flushing housewife, the cast spends much of its time variously undressed but never disconcerted. (Save that role for the audience...