Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson...
...Sexual behavior in the U.S. has changed markedly in the past 25 years, says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph R. Greenson-and not for the better. "It is my definite impression," Dr. Greenson told the American Medical Association last week, "that women are becoming sexually more assertive and demanding, and men are more indifferent and lethargic." His observations, he added, are as valid for the youth of the current "cool" generation as they are for the middleaged...
Puny Love & Pot. It is true enough, said the psychiatrist, that today's youth are remarkably ostentatious about some of their more intimate activities. "They get to know each other sexually before they become close emotionally or intellectually. In the past, it was the unpopular girl who used sexuality for a bait as a means of competing with her more attractive rivals. Today, even the most attractive and popular girls indulge in a variety of sexual practices with little emotional involvement...
Equal Rights. For the sexual apathy that he found in the middle-aged male, Dr. Greenson suggested, there are several reasons: "After 25 years of marriage, his sexual practices tend to become stereotyped and routinized. There are no more surprises. As a consequence of his insecurity about his masculinity, the American male is inhibited in giving full rein to his sexual fantasies. Another complicating circumstance is the typical middle-aged man's notion that at his time of life his body has to be preserved from any undue stress and strain. He may play 36 holes of golf...
Merely Honest. When he deals with such famed Scandinavian problems as sex, suicide and alcoholism, Connery often turns into a partisan defender. Scandinavia's much publicized sexual laxity, which in turn produces a high rate of divorce, abortion and venereal disease, cannot be called anything so simple as immorality, he argues: the Scandinavians are merely honest when it comes to sex. "To the Nordic mind, Americans and Englishmen are sexual hypocrites: their pretenses are puritan and Victorian, while their performance is entirely the opposite...