Word: casualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...horrified by Peninsula's faulty logic (Homosexuality is bad for the individual. Why? Because homosexuals are unhappy. Why are they unhappy? Because homosexuality is bad for the individual.), by its nonsequiturs (casual sex is bad; therefore, homosexuals are incapable of love), by its misuse of some statistics ("current" AIDS information published in 1983), by its omission of other statistics (the Center for Disease Control report that by the year 2000 AIDS will be as prevalent in the straight community as it is in the gay community), and, in some places, by its sheer idiocy (some of us homosexuals may think...
...hazardous as intercourse, but nothing to be casual about. The partner performing oral sex is more at risk because he or she comes into contact with vaginal or seminal fluids. The virus can pass from those fluids into cuts in the mouth. Those receiving oral sex are exposed only to saliva...
Until there is a vaccine or a cure, responsibility for AIDS in America will have to remain where it is now: with the people in danger of getting and spreading it. For the individual considering a casual sexual encounter, wearing a condom -- or abstaining altogether -- can mean the difference between acquiring a deadly virus and avoiding one. For the country as a whole, it can spell the difference between a contained health problem and one that is out of control...
...however, that the practice of casual sex or of quick intimacy undermines the development of strong and delicate feelings and makes a serious, lasting love impossible. The Crimson considers a claim like this to be a pretense to expert knowledge, but it is also a pretense to expert knowledge to say the opposite, that it makes no difference...
...clothes are well-made, simple, conservative, casual and inexpensive--no neon, no garish patterns that you can't adjust to in a few minutes, a few stripes, plaids in shorts, maybe a funky belt or snazzy pair of socks, but nothing that would ever seem threatening to a high school principal. Gapified clothes are crisp twill pants, slightly tapered jeans, solidcolor turtlenecks, soft button-down shirts in softer colors. You know what they are. You are wearing some...