Word: sexuality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were sexual dabblings outside or before marriage, of course. Adventures. But the point was marriage, not really for the marriage...
...seems strange now, from the vantage-point of the Pill amd of the "sexual revolution" and also of all the human distress that has accompanied the present era of family breakups, to look back on this other dream of marital eroticism. Such a daring dream, really, or at any rate one of great challenge--or foolishness. To dream that we were back with Dorothy in Kansas when in fact we were watching Mick Jagger get his first guitar; when Kansas itself was already changing, subtly, beneath the surface; when in fact everything was changing, getting ready to change, bursting forward...
...Bryant's charge that homosexual teachers could harm their pupils, Miami's gay activists say there have been no such incidents in any of the 38 other cities and counties with similar laws. They claim, with the backing of some psychiatric evidence, that a person's sexual orientation is fixed between the ages of three and five...
Nobody has opposed the sexual revolution more steadfastly than the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Only last year the Vatican reiterated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside marriage, calling this judgment an "absolute and immutable" part of God's law. In a statement last November the U.S. bishops were equally unyielding, saying that sex is "a moral and human good only within marriage...
Traditionally, the Catholic Church, like most branches of Christianity and Judaism, has taught that some sexual practices are intrinsically immoral-e.g., adultery and homosexual relations. The report considers this approach "woefully inadequate." Instead of following rules that ban certain types of sex, it says, Christians should decide for themselves whether specific situations are "conducive to creative growth and integration of the human person." To be moral, the committee argues, sex ought to follow seven basic "guidelines." It should be "self-liberating, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving and joyous." How these terms are to be applied...