Word: sexualism
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Inman fondled the women talkers who allowed him to and had sex with the women who allowed it. His wife Evelyn allowed him to do so. His document was not simply a wenching man's laundry list; it became in part a repository of American sexual habits from World War I into the 1960s. On another level, a man who hated Jews, Italians and Roosevelt while admiring Hitler managed, according to his critics, to capture just about every significant thing that happened in this country--culturally, socially, politically and economically--during the time frame of his obsession. Professor Aaron says...
...Says Norton: "There are all kinds of new transition points." Yet the rate of change has leveled off, and Norton thinks the U.S. is entering a period of relative stability. Other experts, noting such diverse signs as a rise in patriotism, improvement in aptitude-test scores and disenchantment with sexual promiscuity, tend to agree. Says Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University: "People are tired of experimentation. This is the beginning of an age of reconstruction." --By David Beckwith. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington
...York Correspondent Cathy Booth was amazed that supposedly sophisticated teenagers knew so little about birth control. Says she: "There is an astounding level of ignorance and embarrassment that I thought this post-sexual revolution generation didn't have. These girls were not prepared at all and told themselves that nothing could happen to them." Los Angeles Correspondent Melissa Ludtke found the teens she interviewed strangely reticent about sex. "The last thing they want to do is tell an authority figure that they are having sex. That rules out a doctor, pharmacist or parent who might give good contraceptive advice...
...Reagan Administration instituted a program to, in its words, "encourage teenagers not to engage in sexual activities" and foster "good communication between parents and child about sexual matters." The plan has won favor with conservative church groups but has been derided by family-planning advocates as an unrealistic "chastity act." Terrance Olson, professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is using funds from the new program to develop a conservative sex-education curriculum. Olson's offering stresses abstinence, and, he says, "we try to involve teenagers with their parents in understanding the issues of marriage, family...
Today he is China's leading voice for gay rights. Zhou helped start a hotline for "sexual minorities" in his native Shanghai in 2003, and he teaches China's first graduate-school class on homosexuality and social science at Fudan University. Lately he has taken on the issue of AIDS, successfully lobbying the Ministry of Health not to bar HIV-positive people from government jobs. He is collecting testimony from HIV patients and legal experts to urge Shanghai's health department to change rules that he says discriminate against people with the virus...