Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week tour of naval bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...
Stung by the charges of sexism, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week announced the formation of a high-level Task Force on Women in the Military, headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Armor. "This kind of sexual harassment will not be allowed," Armor declared at a press conference. He said the Defense Department does not question what the investigators found, conceding that the policy against sexual harassment had "broken down in some instances." The task force has been ordered to recommend ways to prevent any more such incidents...
...commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...
...adventurous and honest than any of Hollywood's tame, schmaltzy attempts to portray gay relationships such as Making Love and Personal Best. Even the recent British films by Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Launderette and Prick Up Your Ears, which dealt with homosexuality intelligently and forthrightly, shied away from exploring sexual intimacy on a par with straight films. The graphic homosexual sex in Law of Desire may seem irresponsible in light of AIDS, but in Almodovar's world, caution is irrelevant...
Privacy. The "right of privacy" that the court enunciated in the Griswold contraception ruling, and that Bork has frequently disparaged, restrains government intrusion in matters bearing upon marriage, sexual activity and family life. In addition to providing a rationale for the court's pro-abortion decision, privacy has been invoked in arguments favoring gay rights. In a 1984 ruling that upheld the Navy's discharge of a petty officer for homosexual conduct, Bork aired the view that whatever the Supreme Court may have meant by privacy, it did not cover homosexual relations. Last year, a 5-to-4 court majority...