Word: sexual
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...1960s - the decade when practically every underclass of society but theirs got liberated. Vicious assaults of gays were common, and the law rarely pursued the perpetrators. If, as you watch Mad Men, you wonder why the gay art director is so timid about declaring his sexual needs to his colleagues, prospective lovers or, for that matter, himself, it's because he'd like to keep his job and his police record clean. (See TIME's 1978 feature story on the killings of George Moscone and Milk...
...some aspects of the national conversation between homosexuals and those who oppose or fear them haven't changed. Gay and faggot are widespread terms of abuse. Famous actors and singers won't declare their sexual orientation out of concern that their careers would be kaput. There are camps with regimens to "cure" kids of gayness. John Briggs and his national counterpart, Anita Bryant, aren't spearheading the outspoken antagonism to gay civil rights, but the Mormon Church is. It poured $20 million into promoting Proposition 8, this year's California initiative to outlaw gay marriage. Fear lost...
...treatment of pedophiles, it is necessary to ascertain whether chemical castration is intended as a punishment or a cure. This classification in turn rests on the definition of pedophilia as either a crime or a mental disorder . Although many pedophiles are subject to a personality disorder that dictates a sexual preference “for children, boys or girls, or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age,” according to the World Health Organization, others commit the act for emotional reasons, and are not affected by a clinical mental disorder...
...inhumane crime does not validate inhumane retribution in the name of justice. Furthermore, chemical castration seriously undermines life as a free citizen by taking away an individual’s control over his or her body. Those who have been castrated would be unable to become involved in normal sexual relations, prohibited from marriage and the basic rights of a regular citizen. It is unjust to release a pedophile from prison as a supposedly free person and then fundamentally inhibit his possible re-assimilation into society. By resorting to arguably criminal acts, like forced castration, the Polish government would...
...days earlier, Bennett had received a phone call from a Maryland woman named Linda Tripp, who said her friend Lewinsky had had an affair with Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire...