Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson...
LOVE'S BODY, by Norman O. Brown. The author of Life Against Death elaborates on his thesis that sexual repression is the killer of laughter and freedom...
...question was far from capricious. The Supreme Court says that allegedly obscene material can lose the free-speech protection of the First Amendment whenever (among other things) it clearly affronts "contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters." Because obscenity is a federal constitutional issue, adds the court, those standards must be national rather than local. Does this really tell lower courts how to decide obscenity cases...
...aged husbands decide that not time, but their wives, are sapping their lives. This is the age of the domestic tirade, à la Virginia Woolf. The wife feels neglected, the husband feels nagged, both feel thoroughly bored with each other. According to Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson in Human Sexual Response, there is a marked flagging of male potency in the 40s, but it is not so much physical as psychic impotence...
Psychoanalysts argue that both sexes enter a sort of second adolescence in the mid-40s, but the male has more sexual options. A kind of reverse Oedipal tide may run. Where he once craved his father's power, he may now covet his teen-ager son's potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want...