Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presbyterian statement also endorses homosexual rights legislation, even while requiring discrimination within the church. Some liberals found this inconsistent, but the rationale is that secular law need not follow the dictates of religious teachings. Significantly, the document declares that all sexual relations ought to occur only within heterosexual marriage. This signals a retreat from the so-called New Morality by the denomination that published Joseph Fletcher's influential Situation Ethics in 1966 and four years later came close to embracing such theories officially...
What that culture was like remains an enigma. What, for instance, is the significance of the Venus figures, with their exaggerated sexual features? What role did the great cave paintings play in the lives of those ancient people? Whatever the answers, it is clear the art is exceptionally complex, more than simple "hunting magic," as some turn-of-the-century scholars thought. Every indication is that Cro-Magnon man was deeply involved in rituals, ceremonies, myths, perhaps even a kind of religion...
...phone rings. An anonymous male is upset by his premature ejaculations. The woman who answers the call flips through her "quickie book," a loose-leaf binder rilled with sexual information, and makes some suggestions. On the wall above her desk hang huge diagrams of male and female genitalia. The phone rings again. "My husband wants oral sex," a woman asks nervously...
...most common question: "Am I normal?" Other callers query whether penis size is related to sexual satisfaction, if masturbation is damaging, whether oral sex is perverted. Asks one hot-line administrator: "Where is the sexual revolution we keep hearing about? People are as ignorant as they were 50 years...
...unpaid hot-line volunteers, ages 16 to 70, must be open-minded and prepared to refer problem cases to doctors and therapists. In New York, the 50 volunteers go through a ten-month training period, during which they are lectured by doctors on sexual behavior and taught counseling techniques. Many hot-line staffers have solved sexual problems of their own and work without pay, as one volunteer explains, "to help others find a healthy approach...