Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women will be eligible this year for the Rhodes scholarship because of the passage of a bill by the British Parliament barring sexual discrimination...
Archie Bunker seeks sexual fulfillment with a waitress. Rhoda and Joe bust up. Charlie Haggars undergoes television's first testicle transplant. Maude's Arthur goes bankrupt. Ted Baxter has a heart attack in mid-newscast. Lionel Jefferson marries Jennie. Florida loses her husband. McMillan loses his wife, his sidekick and his housekeeper...
...Vatican Declaration on Sexual Ethics, January...
When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its 5,000-word statement on homosexuality, premarital sex and masturbation, it was responding in part to complaints that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior and attitudes. Days later, Father John McNeill, a Jesuit priest and former teacher of moral theology at the now defunct Woodstock College and at Fordham University, won the designation Imprimi Potest (it can be printed) for a book strongly attacking the church's views on homosexuality. It had taken two years to win that designation, which is not an endorsement...
...Catholic Church has traditionally opposed birth control because each sexual act should be open to procreation. Many leading moral theologians now question that contention, and McNeill says their logic should lead them to re-study homosexuality, which has also been condemned because it contravenes the purpose of procreation. Curiously however, McNeill uses something of a natural-law argument of his own. "God so created humans that their sexuality is not determined by their biology," he writes. Therefore "the homosexual condition is according to the will...