Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wild Allegation. Thorpe's alleged homosexual affair first splashed across the headlines in January, when an unemployed model on trial for a social security fraud, Norman Scott, 35, blurted out in court that he was "being hounded because of my sexual relationship to Jeremy Thorpe." The Liberal leader immediately asserted that "there is no truth to Mr. Scott's wild allegation" but admitted that he had known Scott more than a decade ago. Thorpe said he met Scott, then 19, when he was training horses for a landowner acquaintance of Thorpe's. A year later, Thorpe...
Credibility Challenged. In the end, Thorpe had to go because, said the Guardian in a sympathetic editorial, his own colleagues had, "privately or publicly, challenged his credibility." Thorpe might possibly have saved himself had he immediately come clean on the whole business. Even if he had had no sexual relationship with Scott and knew nothing of the cash payments to the model, he erred in not investigating and exposing his friends' inept attempts to protect him. His failure to do so gave the damaging impression that Thorpe was engaged in a cover-up-as he may have been...
Last January the Vatican issued a new declaration on sexual ethics, deploring the "unbridled exaltation of sex" and specifically condemning premarital sex, masturbation and homosexuality. The statement exasperated many U.S. Catholics. Asks Theologian Daniel Maguire of Marquette University: "Is it not past time to declare a moratorium on the discussion of masturbation in church ethics?" Tom Cordera, a 21-year-old biology student in Ames, Iowa, recalls his reaction on hearing of the document: "I got the feeling I wanted to call Pope Paul up on the phone and say, 'Paul, where are you?' " Irene Prendergast...
...even Catholics who are liberal on marital and sexual issues can be adamant about abortion - at least for themselves and their families. "Abortion is murder to me," says Mary Ann Murphy, 54, of Alexandria, Va. "But I cannot jam my religious beliefs down someone else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion...
...have more sources of approval than women, It is frustrating to find so much importance attached to women's bodies and to the illusions they can create out of them, rather than to bodily health and honesty. Carol Ginandes has published a collection, entitled Of Women Born, of ambiguously sexual photographs of commonplace women, startlingly exposed in their homely nakedness. Snippets of interviews accompany each portrait, in which her subjects try to say something meaningful about themselves--a dubious proposition in which, at least for the onlooker, they don't succeed. Occasionally an isolated phrase, like Lottie's, escapes tendentiousness...