Word: stern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston; Elizabeth R. Heffernan '75, a student at Georgetown University Law Center; Ruth B. Helman '43, a former president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association; Ellen LaFollette '54, an editor and teacher of American Literature; Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, associate dean of admissions and financial aid; and Alfred R. Stern, a consultant to Warner Communications...
...never finished college because I went into the army," Stern said yesterday. "However, I'm interested in the women's side of coordinate education, where the two institutions, though coordinate, maintain their separate identities--I think it's a very good idea," he added. Stern's daughter is a member of the Class...
...Soviet men, holding back an ejaculation to satisfy the woman is considered an immoral act with grave physical and psychological consequences. As a result, says Stern, orgasm is "an almost exclusively masculine privilege." Says Stern, "Unaware that the woman possesses any erogenous zones, the man usually imagines that as soon as his penis penetrates her vagina, the woman will be overcome with...
Amid all the restraint, exhibitionism seems a common phenomenon. Stern tells of a group of Muscovite women who regularly compare how many flashers they have encountered in a day; one reported eight. More startling is the Soviet predilection for anonymous sex in such public places as crowded subways and buses. As Stern points out, this requires some gymnastic ability and an adherence to certain unwritten rules: when one man tried to strike up a postcoital acquaintance, the woman turned on him in fury and accused him of "gross immorality...
Some efforts seem to be under way to break away from the stifling past. There is, for instance, a fledgling underground pornographic press called sexizdat (after the samizdat underground literary movement). Stern also reveals that daring protesters have been dropping pornographic doodles into ballot boxes. Yet in spite of such pathetic signs of rebellion, Stern does not see enlightenment any time soon. Indeed, he fears that sex may become increasingly cold, cynical and impersonal in the U.S.S.R. All of which underscores his basic message: that the Revolution stopped at the bedroom door...