Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While city-room veterans sometimes howl at the loss of space, the writers producing the soaps argue that they report one of the biggest stories of the '70s-the ongoing breakdown of sexual taboos. "Federal Triangle tells a lot about Washington in a way that you can't always do in news copy," says Washington Star Portfolio Editor Mary Ann Dolan. "It's great to get the characters to do things that they would do in real life but would never tell us as reporters," adds Reporter Louise Logue. So that their settings and dialogues will...
...world, they are in the position of sellers in a scarce market, and men must line up to buy. This principle explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more than her share of food. Even a very dominant male cannot afford to alienate the most precious of all resources-a willing female. Sociobiology also explains why, in most human societies, men are older than their mates: older men are more likely to control resources...
...also have more to gain (spreading their genes far and wide). Still males have one overpowering disadvantage-they can never be sure that the offspring are their own. A cuckolded male is a biological loser, tricked into investing his time and energy in another male's genes. Thus sexual jealousy evolved among monogamous males as an adaptation. So did courtship rituals. By monopolizing a female's time, but not copulating, a courting male waits long enough to make certain that the female is not already pregnant. Among ring doves, a male turns from wooing to aggression...
...females, coy behavior makes sense if it elicits some sign of good genes or commitment to nurturing. Sociobiologists believe estrus disappeared in humans as a female strategy to cement monogamy: a year-round sexual attractiveness helped keep mates from wandering off. Menopause may have evolved to turn aging females away from breeding and toward protecting their genetic investment by caring for grandchildren...
...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...