Word: sexualism
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Some analysts think the history of the sexual revolution is the story of the ever ready male gaining access to a larger pool of willing women. "There hasn't been a change in male sexual patterns in the 20th century," says Vern Bullough of the State University of New York at Buffalo, a historian of sexual trends. Though most analysts in the field would not go that far, studies tend to agree that changes in male premarital sexual behavior since the '30s have been rather modest. Premarital sex rates for women more than doubled between the 1930s...
...says Tiger, "women are the gatekeepers." At least some slowing of the sexual revolution seems traceable to the reassertion of traditional values by women. As always, women have more to lose in casual sex than men: they are left with the unwanted pregnancies, the abortions, the possible damage from contraceptives and the risk of cervical cancer associated with having multiple sex partners. To many women, random sex seems more and more a pointless diversion or a trap...
...female television personality in New York, a veteran of the sexual scene in the early '70s, later joined a loosely structured "celibacy club" of women who went out socially in groups of six or eight to avoid sexual entanglements. Says she: "It's hard enough for a woman to get ahead in this business without waking up in a different bed every morning...
...University of Kansas study of college women over the past decade found a significant increase in sexual activity during the years 1973-78 but almost none in the past five years. Says Meg Gerrard, the psychology professor in charge of the survey: "I think we have reached a ceiling with 50% to 60% of college women active sexually...
...Therapist Shirley Zussman says that her patients these days complain about the emptiness of sex without commitment. "Being part of a meat market is appalling in terms of self-esteem," she says. "Fears, of both loneliness and intimacy, are a backlash against the 'cool sex' promoted during the sexual revolution." Psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw, director of the Sexual Dysfunction Clinic at Chicago's Loyola University, has a waiting list of 200 couples seeking help. "Many have tried group sex and the swinging scene, but for them it has been destructive and corrosive. Often the partner who suggested it first...