Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grim reality. Despite the church's continued opposition to the use of condoms by married and unmarried persons alike, the bishops will now reluctantly accept the publicizing of information on the devices in public- education campaigns and school classes. Some people simply "will not refrain from the type of sexual or drug-abuse behavior which can transmit AIDS," the bishops acknowledged. But, they stated, AIDS education must emphasize that to stem the disease, "abstinence outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage, as well as the avoidance of intravenous drug abuse, are the only morally correct and medically sure ways...
...been a strange year for American movies. The most popular films of 1987 have a dark hue: violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan...
...lucky few who actually are able to find their true sexuality--and not repress it, like most heterosexuals--there are a range of avenues at Harvard for expressing their new sexual identity. Traditionally, one of the most popular means of expressing one's sexual identity is to find a girl-friend or boyfriend, hard though this has always been for Harvard students...
...this is well and good, but is it enough? Except for females in Women's Studies courses, once a student goes to class there is no way to revel in one's own sexual identity. What Harvard needs are more courses about sex, what it's like, and where to get it. After all, what is healthier than sexual identity...
Nothing. Several things are equally as healthy as one's sexual identity, of course. What one eats is, like sex, an essential part of one's most basic identity. You are what you eat, Socrates said, and he was right. The emergence of groups on campus to help people get together and discuss what they eat, how much, and why is a welcome sign that people are beginning to understand that one's gastrointestinal tract is just as crucial to one's human identity as are one's genitals...