Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...onto witches, goblins and other fantasy figures. Usually a temporary retreat into fantasy is enough to exorcise the child's fear. But sometimes, especially if a youngster is subjected to severe parental abuse, perhaps beatings, the child can turn to potentially damaging reveries, including ones about changes in sexual role. In effect, the child says: "Maybe Daddy would really love me if I were a boy instead of a girl," or vice versa. Unless they are resolved, explains Bloch, such conflicts may be the first step toward homosexuality...
...inappropriate the presence there of the Playboy Playmate of the Year and the selling of $5000 worth of Playboy products at the Post Exchange at Christmas. Women on campus were forbidden to shop that evening. Two of the Playmate's bodyguards approached me and threatened me with physical and sexual violence. It was a terrifying experience...
...straight majority afforded due tolerance to the gay minority, then the law could fairly keep its jurisdiction out of the sexual domain. But to say, as Mr. Leo does, that the law should be "blind" to the homosexual rights problem is to advocate that justice be blind to injustice...
Logic is the perfect vacuum, admitting no impurities but capable of breeding absurdities. A Nazi war criminal sets himself up as Louis XVI in the wilds of South America where he decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...