Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel a personal affront from you self-righteous busybodies, fraught with your fears that somebody, somewhere, might be enjoying something other than the watery sustenance of Bible Belt standards for sexual normality...
Weighing the case of a Justice Department worker who had been fired for spurning the sexual advances of her boss, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his face. From his Washington courtroom, Richey decreed that under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, employees discharged for not submitting to amorous advances may bring sexual-discrimination charges against the following bosses: 1) males who try to seduce female subordinates, 2) females who make advances toward male underlings...
...nation has been informed of the papillomas on Hubert Humphrey's bladder, the chilly bedroom ambience in the Nixon White House, Jimmy Carter's dialogues with God, John Kennedy's sexual appetite, the pot experiments of Jerry Ford...
...Marietta, president of Teamsters Local 208 in Los Angeles, says that he has never heard of the sleeper test. "But if Bitsy is a good-looking woman," he says, "I wouldn't be surprised if some drivers didn't try to use it." To lessen chances for sexual harassment on the road, the coalition is demanding separate rooms for male and female drivers on overnight stops, and relay driving (with just one driver on each stretch of the run). The coalition's other demands: on-the-job training for women; no special tests for drivers already licensed...
...describes putting together the chapter on aging that appears in the second edition. She sent out hundreds of questionnaires, she says, and she was amazed at the responses she received. Women between the ages of 20 and 40--women who are supposed to be at the height of their sexual activity--complained far more frequently of the traditional symptoms of menopause (hot and cold flushes, headaches and fatigue) than did women between 60 and 80. Medical experts don't even know which symptoms are the direct result of the hormonal change, and which are secondary. There...