Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspirational books, together with accounts of personal adventure, stole the show all year. After the Revised Standard Bible came the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking-and it did nearly as well as the three fiction bestsellers put together. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female sold very well for an $8 book, but even at some 200,000 copies, it was not the runaway that the trade had expected. It was only one of many books on women (Frenchwoman Simone de Beauvoir's disgruntled The Second Sex was another...
Revised Standard Version of the Bible The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale Angel Unaware, Dale Evans Rogers Sexual Behavior in the Human Female...
...trip she began to learn that Americans were individuals and as hard to generalize about as Frenchmen. But she faithfully kept on generalizing. Relations between the sexes were difficult in the U.S., she feared. "Men shut themselves up in their clubs, women take refuge in theirs." Sexual frustration seemed typical, with the women frigid, the men inept. Whisky was the means of destroying inhibitions. "It's very expensive,'' a gentleman complained to her. "It takes a lot of whisky to reduce a woman to the right degree of drunkenness, and if the dose is too strong...
After discussing social feelings about college drinking, the report moved into a study of "Beliefs about Drinking and Sexual Behavior," which prompted one columnist to label the book a "Booze Kinsey." But its sales fall far below Kinsey's records, thus indicating that society is more curious about its neighbors' bedrooms than its barrooms...
Once they got over their natural skittishness of the facts of unconscious life, informal, easygoing Bob Young found it surprisingly easy to get his clerical couples talking about their aggressions, repressions and sexual problems. Even a little theology was kicked around-with some of the inanity that is often a byproduct of the mixture of Scripture and Freud. One meeting considered the question of whether Jesus Christ was a masochist. (Yes, said Bob Young: he denied himself marriage and made his life one long bid for suffering. No, said the ministers: men crucified him because they were not yet ready...