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Kinsey had some shocking news for mid-century America: women enjoy sex. In the cover story Henry Anatole Grunwald (later a TIME managing editor and TIME Inc. editor-in-chief) elegantly examined the emergence of 20th century American women from "under Queen Victoria's long shadow." These liberated souls were "by no means as frigid as they have been made out." Nearly all of them "went in for petting." Even older generations engaged in such hot pastimes as "flirting, flirtage, courting, bundling, spooning, mugging, smooching, larking, sparking." And all women needed romantic attention -- "generalized emotional stimulation," in Kinsey's starchy...
...counter Romney's image as a family man, Kennedy is campaigning with Victoria, 40, his telegenic wife of two years. He is also fighting back with the first negative campaign of his political life. He is skeptical about Romney's job-creation claims. He has noted that while Romney says he favors universal health-care coverage, none of the part-time employees at Staples, the successful office-supplies chain that Romney helped establish, receive such coverage from the company. (Then again, part-timers usually don't.) Last week Kennedy even introduced religion into the race, demanding to know if Romney...
...When Victoria Zdrok allowed Playboy to place a staple in her navel, she wasn't just allowing herself to become another sex kitten...
...have to wonder, if Playboy editors themselves were so impressed with this woman's intellect, why they didn't decide to have her pose in the nude with a feminist revison of Dostoyevsky's The Sisters Karamazov in her hand? Victoria herself expressed some disappointment that the photo shoot didn't quite stimulate her in the way she thought it would...
...encounter, said to have occurred in the 1920s, is told to the narrator of a larger, more encompassing story by a woman whose reliability the reader is encouraged to suspect. Fact, fiction or a little of both, the exotic adventure mirrors changes in the life of the narrator, a Victoria, British Columbia, bookshop owner...