Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion and debate, interspersing its regular coverage with the broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...
...phallic montage, Un Chant D'Amour; is in its own strange fashion one of the most intense statements of masculine potency on film. While Genet assaults his audience with one or another shocking perversion, he is also telling them that abnormality does not, in the last analysis, exist and sexual perversion, regardless of its nature, is as divine a form of love as those more commonly sanctioned...
Ginn's production employs more conventional mystiques, making simple and obvious reversals of sexual roles: Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the Madam of an answering service, a nervous dike devoid of femininity and consequent feminine insight. This is supported by the text often, particularly in the dialogue with Carmen, but it annihilates any credibility to her stated relationship with Georges, the chief of police. Genet's contradictions work better...
...still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that identifies me as a sexual plaything...
...physiological responses in coitus and lactation are closely allied, say the Newtons: "Uterine contractions occur both during suckling and during sexual excitement. Nipple erection occurs during both. Breast stimulation alone can induce orgasm in some women. Nursing mothers not only report sexual stimulation from suckling but also, as a group, are more interested in as rapid a return to active intercourse with their husbands as possible...