Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuals in metropolitan San Francisco, I look forward to the day when California will follow the lead of Great Britain and reform the laws dealing with our behavior [July 14]. The life we homosexuals lead is difficult enough because of prejudice and ignorance. The laws proscribing sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex create a paradise for blackmailers and an inferno for those of us who ask no more than to be accepted on our own merits...
...permissive age, but they certainly express that interest more openly and flamboyantly. The subject seems to be on everyone's mind. Newspapers and magazines constantly frontpage details of the most lurid activities. The once-staid BBC last summer showed a boy and girl in bed together discussing their sexual history. British newspapers use four-letter words and explicit language that would surprise readers of mass-circulation papers on the Continent or the U.S. Their classified-ad pages frequently serve as arenas for the commerce of sex. British admen have learned to use sexual innuendo with such effect that some...
Real Change. Some of the bluntness is a reaction to the euphemisms with which the British gentility, whose conduct has always provided rich material for gossip and journalism, long shrouded matters sexual. But much of it is the result of a very real change in respectable middle-class morality, once considered a bastion against the sexual mores of both the upper and lower classes. Illegal abortions are estimated to be running between 100,000 and 200,000 annually; divorce petitions have risen 50% in the last five years to some 42,000 a year; illegitimate births have doubled...
...lower-class bar, he wrote, "the odors of colognes, after-shave creams, and hair tonics compete ably with vapors of alcohol and tobacco ... Lower-class dance forms, often animalistic, ... are undeniably suggestive: variations of the sexual act, sexual play, the chase, the sudden unexpected consummation of a wild fury, and then stillness, all communicate the dancer's intense drives...
...Elite" dancing, observed in country clubs and "two swank hotels," is marked by restraint and "the carefully planned masking of sexual demonstrations." "Swirling and side-stepping about the floor, the upper-class couples present a handsome contrast to lower-class couples who barely move during slower dances...