Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percentage of those Government students who have heard of a case of sexual harassment in the Government Department is much higher among women than men concentrators. Forty-four percent of women Government concentrators and only 26 percent of men Government concentrators have heard of a case of harassment...
When asked if they had heard of a case of sexual harassment in a department other than their own, three out of every five women non-Government social science concentrators who had heard of such a case listed the Government Department first...
Regardless of D'Alessio's sexual orientation, some people in Boston Garden that Saturday night felt personally attacked by the crowd's statements...
...attitudes toward sex is lagging behind the change in official doctrine. Three years after sex education became mandatory in schools, barely any instructors are qualified to teach it. Those assigned to do so are often too embarrassed even to use animals to illustrate their points. Instead, they talk about sexual reproduction in plants or avoid the topic altogether. The effect is that many schools essentially have no sex education at all. Though that is mostly the result of sheer backwardness, some of the delay also stems from active opposition. Just as in the U.S., those against sex education have accused...
...Ethnography, hopes to use his new status as a member of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences to keep pushing for change. At Kon's urging, the April issue of the magazine Semya (Family) will begin to run a translation of the no-holds-barred French children's sexual-instruction book La Vie Sexuelle (The Sexual Life). Three different publications this year will include excerpts from the works of Freud. "Readers will be enchanted," Kon says. "They will think it is the latest thing." Perhaps, he suggests, the excerpts should be accompanied by scholarly introductions to let readers know what...