Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a look-alike for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, ended her discreet silence. At a press conference in San Diego, she admitted that the President had once shared her affections with two mobsters. But she declined comment when bluntly asked whether she and Kennedy had ever had sexual relations...
Inevitably, a legend of prodigious sexual activity would enwrap as romantic a figure as the wealthy, glamorous young President. Kennedy, moreover, seemed to enjoy the image. He never hid his fondness for attractive women, seeking them out for special attention as he moved into crowds to shake hands or spotting a comely campaign worker among his wide-eyed supporters. Once he startled two proper Britons, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister R.A.B. Butler, during a 1962 conference in Nassau by casually confiding that if he went too long without a woman, he suffered severe headaches...
...Mayor Joan Poulos takes a relaxed view, suggesting that not every last area of sexual segregation has to be battered down. After all, some Davis women's groups, including the Soroptimists, continue to bar men. And, she notes, "no serious public business is conducted at Ro tary Club luncheons...
They have names like Ecstasy Unlimited, the Velvet Touch and This Is Heaven. They are in business mostly as "massage parlors," but when police try to shut them down, they squirm into some new designation-rap parlors, escort services, schools of sexual technique, nude encounter groups and even nude weight-lifting centers...
Some are legitimate enterprises, some offer vague sexual titillation, and many are simply brothels. Parlors that advertise or hint at "full sexual services" are spreading across the country as fast as fast-food stores.* Indeed, the massage-parlor phenomenon is an American twist on the world's oldest profession: merchandising women's bodies in storefronts, complete with ad budgets and payment by credit card...