Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Gilder, 35, is a shy, conservative bachelor and the nation's leading male-chauvinist-pig author. He won the title last year from Norman Mailer in a one-punch knockout with his book Sexual Suicide, which derided feminism, exalted motherhood, and argued that men are fragile creatures who must be socialized through marriage...
...Gilder, the reason is that the single male is an unmotivated wanderer, with no clear long-term sexual identity...
...older men in effect become polygamists, monopolizing the fertile, eligible years of two or more women. The inevitable result is a growing pool of abandoned older women and millions of young single men who cannot get married or have children-a major rupture in the social system. The sexual shuffle is creating a class of bitter losers...
...believes that it may also be creating more homosexuals, as men without women turn to other men for sexual outlets. "I went through the list of societies which affirm homosexuality and found that in every single case, these societies were polygamous-powerful men could have a couple of wives, so the society accommodated the men left over by affirming homosexuality...
...Harvard professors at a Los Angeles massage parlor. In his insistence that bachelorhood causes trouble and lower earnings, he considers but rejects an equally persuasive explanation of his statistics: that poor and troubled men may be fated to remain single. He tends to see every social ill as a sexual ill in disguise, suggesting, for example, that "one way to explain black poverty is to point out that 39% of black men are single compared with 29% of white men." Though he carries it too far, his view is a provocative one-and a reminder of some hidden costs...