Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their 403 and 505 are especially subject to cancer of the prostate. Yet men of that age, seeking sexual rejuvenation, are the very ones that fall for mail-order promoters. And misuse of testosterone may actually cause sterility...
Furthermore, says Fisher in effect, Solomon's wisdom was not even his own; it was just a lot of words put in his mouth by his ghostwriter and his Egyptian wife. The real Solomon, according to Fisher, was a phony liberal with a father complex and a massive sexual overcompensation; his quarrel with the prophet Ahijah* was an exchange of irrelevancies between a dilettante and a fanatic...
...Richdale. For ten breeding seasons he watched colonies of yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) on the coast of New Zealand's South Island. He made friends with the birds, attached identifying bands to their legs, and spied with a telescope upon their domestic affairs. In a new book, Sexual Behavior in Penguins (University of Kansas Press; $5), he tells what he learned about their lives and loves, "marriages" and "divorces...
Their peak of emotion is what Richdale calls "the ecstatic." They stand close together, flapping their flippers wildly, twining their necks and "trumpeting" loudly, while juvenile penguins gather around to watch the ceremony. Among mammals or less seemly birds, such behavior might lead forthwith to sexual intercourse. But not among the penguins. After the extensive ceremonies of courtship, both birds sink down exhausted, as if the demands of the preliminaries had drained their strength...
Pair in Tune. This habit of the penguins has long puzzled ornithologists. Richdale's theory is that the ceremonials, which continue throughout the breeding season, are not sexual preliminaries. Their purpose, he thinks, is simply to "attune" the pair. Then, when the female's unborn eggs are just right for fertilization, mating takes place instantly at her signal...