Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors commit a number of serious statistical sins, and their conclusions are based on demographic fallacies. All "non-monogamous" subjects had at least six different sexual partners each year for five years--a figure which in itself makes the sample unrepresentative...
...methodological biases are overshadowed, however, by the misuse of statistics. The great majority of the individuals in the survey who tested positive actually had more than 13 (rather than the minimum of six) sexual partners annually, and how many more is never specified. These extremely sexually active people were the ones who raised the overall total in the "non-monogamous" group, and they are the ones who are really at risk...
Masters and Johnson simply cannot extrapolate from those who tested positive in their study to the general population. Extremely sexually active people in urban settings form a relatively closed group. We can expect that all the partners of those AIDS carriers in the study are just as sexually active. It's easy math to figure out that the risk of transmission follows a geometrical, and not a linear progression in this subpopulation. The number of people an individual has had sex with "by extension" grows by leaps and bounds if the partners are also at high risk. The second conclusion...
...habit of nightly picking up strangers at bars in major cities, or regularly frequents prostitutes. These are the people at whom the book should be aimed. As for the rest of us, we must make haste to save lives, even if they are not our own. Or sexual behavior should be cautious, yet not terrified; our political behavior should be swift, yet not tyrannical...
...survey aims "to cover most of the importantissues in undergraduate life," Bok said. Questionsrange widely from personal student concerns tosocial, academic and institutional evaluations.They include academic advising, race relations,sexual harassment, the quality of house life,community service and drug and alcohol abuse...