Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...researchers and therapists routinely use porn films to prod troubled couples into overcoming their sexual inhibitions. Says Dr. Zev Wanderer of the Center for Behavior Therapy in Beverly Hills: "Watching explicit sex makes the patient willing to try in his own life what he has seen on film...
U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Robert J. Stoller, author of Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred, argues that hostility is the essential dynamic of all pornography. In his eyes, even the mildest porn is tinged with aggressive voyeurism and the sadomasochistic search for a sexual victim. Says he: "Societies fear pornography as they fear sexuality, but perhaps there is a less sick reason...
...they respond intuitively to the hostile fantasies disguised but still active in pornography." In Stoller's view, porn is two-edged; it "disperses rage" that might tear society apart, but it also threatens society by serving as propaganda for the unleashing of sexual hostility...
...first massage parlor was not taken so calmly. The town fathers scared off the first owner with an avalanche of building-and safety-code restrictions. But Robert and Monica Baldwin opened Monica's Massage on the same site last month. Baldwin, an ex-boxer, hotly denies any sexual services at Monica's. Word around town is that he is almost correct: voyeurism is the main attraction, with a little masturbatory help here and there. Mayor Kew offers the familiar refrain: "Much to our dismay, there was nothing we could do; just make sure they abide by the codes...
Readable Introduction. Unfortunately, Moers shies away from some of her best insights. A few pages into a promising discussion about the difference between male and female writers' use of sexual imagery, she stops and apologizes for having brought up the subject. An erotic imagination might, be all right for Erica's following, she suggests, but not for her own gentle reader. Similarly, after observing that the four female titans of the modern novel (Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) were all somewhat "alarming" women fascinated by the permutations of sexual identity, Moers furiously backpedals. She dismisses...