Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Criminality" in the May 30 issue: . . . To make criminal any sexual activity in which husband and wife engage with mutual consent and love is . . . ridiculous. What married people do in bed is no more the business of lawmakers than is the way they cook their eggs when they...
...general American attitude that conventional sexual intercourse is the only "proper" expression of sexual desire-and, worse, the legislating of that attitude-is a hangover from the Puritan fathers, from whom so few of us descended. The prudery and naiveté of such an attitude must also make us a laughingstock in nations of more wisdom and maturity...
Then the Bible teacher appealed to the government itself, protesting indignantly that "in this school, sexual relations between pupils are entirely consistent with the highest conduct marks." A fortnight ago, at a formal Cabinet meeting presided over by Prince Bertil, son of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the government formally backed the school principal over the Bible teacher...
...statutory crime. Sodomy proved more controversial. In the end, the model code provided criminal penalties for homosexual behavior "involving force, adult corruption of minors and public offense." But a broader provision caused a sharper argument. This clause held that "a person who engages in an act of deviate sexual intercourse" commits a crime...
Among India's many primitive sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...