Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playboy's announced decision to give up those readers primarily interested in porn [July 4] is hardly the same as not staying in touch with society's "shifting sexual standards." In response to the more personal part of TIME'S patronizing putdown ("surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite"), I can only say that Contributor Thomas Griffith obviously has his own very personal definition of "square." Oh to be as hip as you swinging newsmagazine men in New York...
...discrimination? Find out with the following jiffy quiz. Mark each item true or false: 1) A white female office worker, fired after she was caught fornicating on business premises during working hours, filed a charge of discrimination against the employer, contending that she had been dismissed only because her sexual partner was black...
...fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...
...point most observers are agreed: homosexuals are more vulnerable to physical attack because accepting sexual invitations from total strangers is an established part of the gay scene. Says Berkeley Psychologist Michael Evans: "Homosexuals are an easy population to get access to in some anonymous way." Chicago Police Sgt. Richard Sandberg puts it more tersely: "The gays are easy prey...
...ghetto kids. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that almost 8 million Americans have tried cocaine at least once, usually by sniffing it in a powdery form ("snorting"). Cocaine's proponents, who included Freud, swear by the drug, insisting that it produces a sense of euphoria, increases sexual sensations, reduces fatigue and stimulates creative powers. Nonsense, says the Federal Government. Heavy use of cocaine can cause such side effects as sleeplessness, anxiety, hallucinations and even death. Cocaine also creates a strong psychological dependence, if not a direct physical addiction. While he endorses the relaxation of stiff penalties...