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...other fat fad to incur the displeasure of the A.M.A. is "staplepuncture," which is based on the theory - so far unconfirmed - that there are "obesity nerve endings" in the ear. Doctors who practice the art place surgical staples in their patients' ears and instruct them to wiggle the metal clips with their fingers whenever they feel like cheating on the 400-calorie-per-day diet that accompanies the treatment...
...take strong exception to your position that such diverse sexual life-styles as swinging (mate swapping), group sex and bisexuality can be grouped with open marriage as declining "odd" forms of experimentation. To compare the fad of swinging, which has affected at most 2% of married couples, with sexually and emotionally open, co-marital relationships is simply an overgeneralization. It is probable that singlehood with multiple sexual and love relationships, open marriage and traditional monogamy are already the major life-style choices...
University of Connecticut Sociologist Duane Denfeld, whose recent work focuses on psychological damage suffered by many swingers, suggests that the early, rosy reports on swinging may have owed something to many of the original researchers, who were missionary swingers themselves. Some areas, which got the fad late, still report increased activity. "In Atlanta," Sex Counselor Martin Rosenman says of his home town, "swinging is growing. Everywhere else, it's dying...
...miracles" began long before the 20th century and the Chinese, who read about the acupuncture fad in the United States, view it as just another Western oddity. Acupuncture, they say, has been practiced for over 5000 years with success so how can anyone doubt its efficacy...
...passing fad? Not according to the Gimbels chain (67 stores), whose main Manhattan store sells more than 1,000 imprints a week. The chain, says one executive, will stay with the T "forever...