Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muscle-toning devices exceeds $35 million. Sales of the Royal Canadian Air Force exercise book have passed eleven million. This bible of the physically insecure now shares its popularity with dozens of other reference works, among them Be Young with Yoga, Jogging and Sexercises (which promises to refine the sexual performance of both genders). A U.S. Government pamphlet on Adult Physical Fitness has sold 750,000 copies, without benefit of advertising, since 1963. By the tens of millions, U.S. televiewers genuflect to the exercise programs of Jack LaLanne, Ed Allen and Richard and Diane Hittleman...
Nothing Overt. Those invited included a nucleus of people already in some sort of group therapy. The ten men and ten women who signed up for Bindrim's experiment included singletons as well as married and about-to-be-married couples. Among their problems, Bindrim believes, were sexual difficulties resulting from puritan teachings that nudity is shameful...
Cottle thinks the problems of racial hatred are intensified by sexual anxieties, especially common in adolescents. "Imagine the complexity of the relationship between a 16-year-old Negro girl and a 20-year-old white group leader," he said. "We have found that much of what was considered 'racial' problems are really sexual ones: the adjustment of white girls to Negro boys, for example...
Fourth, many integration problems are really problems of sexual adjustment between opposing sexes of different colors...
Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge. Vidal and his publisher, insisting that the sexual problems of the title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all. However, anyone who has been to far-off, murky Venice-or just down to the local fag bar-will recognize Myra's true gender long before Vidal coyly pronounces the paradigm. And in all conscience it can be reported that the key to Myra's sexual-identity crisis...