Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristotle claimed that the ideal marrying age was 37 for the man, 18 for the woman. As he saw it, both would thus reach the end of their sexual decline at roughly the same time, when he was 70 and she was 50. But what do philosophers know anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom...
...older man, often fighting clear of a wrecked marriage, typically hopes that a young bride will restore some of his waning sexuality and lost youth. Sexually, at least, he may be sadly mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent...
...founding father of Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand at a ball, Pushkin's "eyes blazed, he panted and snorted, like an ardent horse in the midst of a herd of young mares...
...with them Cliffies who can enjoy a Bake Sale and a party, organized for the dual purposes of fund- and fun-raising. And there are many, many other Cliffies--such as the seven girls who volunteered to participate in the raffle--who are secure enough in their intellectual and sexual identities not to have to organize into a committee to remind themselves that they are women, and that they don't have to be consigned to second-class status on the basis of that fact. I hope that the Harvard people who showed up for Friday night's festivities left...
...Radcliffe students we would like to eliminate the existing dichotomy between our intellectual and sexual identity. Women tend to accept false standards of femininity which pervade all aspects of our life. Women are seen as marketable items on the basis of their sexual attractiveness. Women's economic function often consists of menial tasks and almost always for lower wages than men. Further they are expected to give unquestioning emotional support to the male...