Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobel Laureate William Golding recounts a stirring voyage of discovery in Close Quarters. -- A. N. Wilson' s bravura sexual comedy...
...most people, the thought of publicly disclosing their sexual secrets is the stuff of Freudian nightmares. But last year, after Martin (not his real name), an electrical worker, was sued by his former girlfriend in New York City, he was required to answer a lawyer's questions on intimate details of his sexual activities: "Did you ever suffer from blisters or sores on your penis or genitals?" "Did you ever have difficulty achieving or keeping an erection during sexual intercourse?" Martin discovered that the true fury of hell is not a woman scorned but a woman who contracts genital herpes...
Even before the New York case, courts in several other states had allowed plaintiffs to sue their partners for transmitting sexual diseases. That, lawyers say, may lead to a freshet of cases involving acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Louis Alexander, a Syracuse attorney who has studied civil actions involving sexually transmitted diseases, notes that over the past two decades the legal system has become more sympathetic to the injured party. "With herpes and AIDS, we're dealing with diseases that are incurable," he says. "My view is that there should be a legal duty to disclose them...
Perry says he warns clients to expect questions about their sexual past from lawyers. Those who insist on going ahead, he adds, share one characteristic: fury. "They are so angry," says Perry. "One woman told me, 'At least in a rape, once it's done, it's done. But this goes on forever.' " That indignation is shared by a 26-year-old Chicago interior designer, who is suing her former lover in Cook County Circuit Court. Despite the potential publicity and embarrassment, she says, "I started this, and I'm going to finish...
...Bakker, defrocked and exiled creator of the scandal- ridden PTL ministry, surfaces to accuse Jerry Falwell of stealing his empire through phony threats of a takeover. Falwell responds with new accounts of Bakker' s sexual and financial sins. Can PTL raise enough cash to survive? Has TV evangelism been fatally weakened? Stay tuned...