Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some time ago an interesting book came out called The Hite Report, purporting to be a survey of women's sexuality. Aside from the surveys that Hite conducted, there was a great deal of editorializing on the part of the author (ranging from statements that the male of the species had an almost hysterical fixation on penetration and ejaculation, to the fascinating comment that women who rejected lesbian sex were traitors to their sex), and some truly extraordinary statements about men--men as human beings, as beings capable of emotions and as sexual beings. These statements depicted men as cold...
...were so depressed by the declarations of the Hite Report on men that they conducted a survey of their own, of men and their feelings and opinions, and found almost diametrically opposite results from those Hite found. They found that what most men looked for above all in a sexual relationship are companionship and love; they found that most men found foreplay the most important part of sex; and they published their findings in a book called Beyond the Male Myth...
...good feelings alive," where she failed in the past. In another song, "Cotton Avenue," she presents a young woman, preparing to go out dancing in the city on a warm summer night. She never says Cotton Avenue is fun--in fact, she describes it as a crowded, coldly sexual scene, where the men are out "hustling," sizing up the women. She goes there out of compulsion, out of the same need that runs through the album: Find something to hold onto, something real, because what I'm doing now isn't making...
...profoundly depoliticized, unable to see my own image reflected in the history of my times." As reflected in The Romance of American Communism, that image is sympathetic, generous but not clearly focused. She takes the complexities of idealism and motivation and submerges them into a provocative simile for destructive sexual desire. Even the selected evidence of her own interviews cannot adequately support such a grand moral vision...
Dwight's batty (and ultimately avenging) old aunt does several nice comic turns in the novel, once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into...