Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dropouts, he said, are characterized by a desire to take risks "in order to test their capacities as well as their courage . . . . Some take drugs and go on to escalate dosage and experiment with more dangerous substance . . . . Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are other risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges...
...Dale does not show up- and what follows is one of the great non-orgies of all time. Only in the sixties, in the days of the so-called sexual revolution, can people of such widely varied sexual tastes come together- only to find that none of their tastes coincide. Like Horovitz, McNally powerfully demonstrates how the multitude of roles available to liberated modern man can become a humanity-crushing obsession...
...they futilely try to find a piece of the action they can call their own, the people of Noon are totally pathetic. This essential pathos of the work keeps it from being erotic. Still, McNally's documentation of the sexual mores involved- complete with whips and chains, undressing, and noneuphemistic language- will nonetheless strike some people as obscene. That's their problem...
Blaine attributed much of student unrest to the lack of challenge in our affluent society. He said that in order to create challenges, students take unnecessary risks. "Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are... risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges presented to young people of other generations...
Blaine also blamed a permissive attitude by parents which has spawned a desire on the part of students for "immediate gratification of their sexual wants, demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness...