Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study on football as a homosexual ceremony [Nov. 13], Mr. Dundes argues that the jargon of football-e.g., score, down, popping-is erotic. He apparently assumes that such words were borrowed from sexual lingo. Actually, these terms were used by football players and fans long before they became part of our sexual-banter...
...fact that we have borrowed vocabulary from the violent game of football to describe sexual behavior sheds a great deal of light on our current standards of eroticism. Mr. Dundes has reversed the analogy...
...theories flourished over why both officials had died. One was that the murders might somehow have been connected with the Peoples Temple. Far more plausible was the notion that White, the only supervisor on the board who had voted against a city ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual preferences, had vented his anti-gay feelings in a murderous attack against Milk and the mayor. Moscone had appointed a few representatives of the gay community to low-ranking government offices...
...Feeling for Father & this cause is a very happy one I can not think of anything that I would or could be happier with. Father is wonderful, clean, straight forward & Supernatural. I play no sexual games to jealous to play sexual games. I am not afraid to die but would like to die for a reason...
...whole point of Playboy's upcoming article is to titillate men by debasing into objects the very women who strive hardest to escape that role. The message will be that even the brightest, most achievement-oriented women are really nothing but sexual playthings after all--a message insecure, sexist men are eager to receive...