Word: sexologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puritanical but almost completely ignorant about sexuality. The typical Soviet woman has nine abortions not because of liberal attitudes but because the procedure is a substitute for contraception, which is essentially unavailable. Says Igor Kon, a founding father of Soviet sociology and the nation's leading -- and perhaps only -- sexologist: "If you want to imagine the atmosphere in the Soviet Union, imagine a world before Kinsey -- even before Freud...
...spouses. Mandatory counseling has not prevented more than half a million divorces a year. Police crackdowns have failed to stem underground sales of pornographic books and videos. "The Chinese are like people who have been in the dark a long time," says Liu, who is China's best-known sexologist. "Suddenly, when the windows are opened, they feel dizzy...
...soft-spoken sexologist is more reluctant to discuss the details of her splintered childhood. Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in 1942 in St. Joseph, Mo. Her father Paul Gregory, a serviceman and flight controller, and her mother divorced shortly after the end of World War II. Her mother later married Raymond Hite, a truck driver, who legally adopted her. After 2 1/2 years that marriage dissolved. Throughout the turmoil, Shere (short for Shirley) lived on and off with her grandparents, who, after a 30-year marriage, also divorced. Her grandfather, Alexander Hurt, acted as a surrogate father, although Shere...
...this point, after the good advice of his sexologist has either been forgotten or ignored, Gary is caught between a rock and a hard place. Simultaneously he must try to convince the voters that a) He had a beautiful woman in his home, but did not sleep with her, and b) He is not a homosexual...
...films were considered slow getting started if there were fewer than three or four sex bouts in the first ten minutes. Impatient males ( watching the new tapes for couples must put up with five or ten minutes of character and plot development before the clothes finally come off. Says Sexologist John Money of Johns Hopkins University: "Women are turned on more by the story line and men by the visual image, and that's a very basic sex difference...