Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gary attempts to explain not only German history but most of the history of Western civilization with this morbidly fascinating sexual metaphor. It is insufficient to the task, but somehow that does not seem very important when matched against the savagery of Gary's vision. Lily is described by a German admirer as "a being of exquisite sensitivity. Culture! That's what she lived for. She walked in beauty! She inspired heroism and sacrifice! Our students were taught to love her, even in kindergarten!" To which Genghis Cohn replies sardonically with a reminiscence of the moment when...
Wearing his own grave expression, Social Critic Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders, The Status Seekers, The Waste Makers) reports on the sexual revolution in his new book, The Sexual Wilderness (McKay...
...surveyed the sex practices of 2,200 junior and senior students in colleges and universities in the U.S., England, Norway, Canada, Germany and Italy. Most significant of his findings is that in the past 20 years the percentage of 21-year-old unmarried U.S. college girls who have had sexual intercourse has risen nearly 60%. In the 1940s, Kinsey reported that about 27% of college-educated females had surrendered their virginity before marriage. Packard's study now puts the figure at 43%. Of particular interest to male exchange students is Packard's international sampling. Sixty-three percent...
This state of affairs, Packard notes with alarm, has had a deleterious if not disastrous effect on the American male. Citing a 1967 American Medical Association journal's psychiatric report claiming that sexual roles are "being reversed," Packard says that "many young males not only feel their adequacy threatened, but are confused as to what the modern world expects of them." He found support for this analysis at an Eastern women's college, where a girl revealed that "most of the men I have dated in the past year have made overtures at going...
...kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed today. Scarred, starved and brutalized, the convict sub-world could credibly circulate the malicious scandal that the cattle belonging to the officers' ruling caste had died of pox contracted through bestial sexual commerce with their owners...