Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost all areas?business, the professions, blue-collar work, education, politics, the family?a new sensibility among both men and women has led to more enlightenment?and a restless understanding of how far away sexual equality remains...
...least two well-known beauties told close friends about their affairs with Kennedy. Before her accidental death in 1967, Actress Jayne Mansfield claimed to have carried on a three-year intimate and intermittent romance with Kennedy. There is little doubt that Marilyn Monroe also had a sexual relationship with the President. Show-biz Chronicler Earl Wilson claims without qualification in his book Show Business Laid Bare: "Marilyn Monroe's sexual pyrotechnics excited the President of the United States." According to Wilson, their intimate relationship began about a year before her death and was pursued in New York...
...only book by a former White House employee to delve into Kennedy's sexual activities as President is Traphes Bryant's Dog Days at the White House. A temperamental, unreliable source, Bryant was an electrician and kennel keeper at the White House from Truman's days through Nixon's. The gossipy book is selling briskly with tales of backstairs intrigue that are impossible to verify...
...anguished accusations. When this crisis passed, the couple tried to bridge their physical and emotional separation with a series of starkly erotic letters. Nora's have not survived, but Joyce's reveal that both partners used these letters as aids to masturbation - thus deflecting their sexual desires for others. "One moment," Joyce writes, "I see you like a virgin or madonna; the next moment I see you shameless, insolent, half naked and obscene...
...reputation as a writer of dirty books, he was remarkably prim in his speech and other correspondence. "Keep my letters to yourself, dear," he admonished Nora. "They were written for you." Yet because everything Joyce experienced found its way some how into his fiction, the exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life...