Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better case in charging that Jack Kennedy enjoyed a relatively uncritical press. Too many Washington reporters were charmed by him and wanted to bask in Camelot favors. Yet whether their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely on a par with the Watergate...
...judges raise the question of the victim's responsibility "I 'm trying to say to women stop teasing. There should be a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses," declared Dane County Judge Archie Simonson, 52. "Whether women like it or not they are sex objects. Are we supposed to take an impressionable person 15 or 16 years of age and punish that person severely because they react to it normally?" Voicing such sentiments, Judge Simonson let a convicted 15-year-old Madison, Wis., defendant off last May with a wrist...
...supporters, Simonson's remarks reflected a troubled quest for proper justice in an era notable both for its sexual liberation and the use of sex as a sales device. But feminists were outraged. Women picketed the courthouse and circulated petitions, signed by over 35,000 voters, demanding Simonson's removal. Paul Soglin, the liberal mayor of Madison, was also critical. Said he: "Regardless of community standards, under no conditions can a sexual assault or rape be considered normal...
...Simonson case illustrates some changes and ambiguities in prevalent legal attitudes toward rape. Since 1974, in response to women's rights advocates, at least 20 states have modified rules of evidence in rape cases, restricting, for example, inquiry into the victim's sexual history. But at the same time the law is softening and refining the punishment for rape too. The U.S. Supreme Court in June banned the death penalty for rape. When sentencing rapists, judges now tend to distinguish more and more sharply between varying degrees of brutality and other mitigating circumstances...
...hodgepodge." Far more important, High Priest Jaswant Singh, a leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral...