Word: sexologist
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Anyone can call himself a sexologist, or expert in human sexuality. These days more and more unqualified men and women are doing just that. In hundreds of "sex clinics" across the nation, they are dispensing advice to the sexually troubled. More often than not, their services not only fail to help but actually cause serious emotional harm. Currently waging an active campaign to get the issue on the agenda of the American Medical Association's June convention, Sex Expert William Masters charges that "these street-corner clinics frequently have no trained personnel; they operate at low professional standards...
...sneak into the girls washroom just so they would scream and all the boys would giggle. Woody Allen has carried this comic style into adult movies with his film Everything You Always Wanted to Know etc. In response to the serious queries of Dr. David Reuben, our wealthiest sexologist. Allen offers witty poems, hyperbolic parodies, and clever asides that are irreverent, aside, and often very funny...
...Doctors Who Do Sex Research Accurate?," all get their laughs from Allen's wordplay and pacing. It's hard to choose, but probably the best is his answer to "Are the Findings of Doctors Who Do Sex Research Accurate?" in which he casts himself as a budding young sexologist. After picking up a young and beautiful reporter, Helen, on his way to study under the famed but eccentric sexologist Dr. Bernardo, Allen arrives to find a crumbling mansion right out of a '30's horror film. Once at the door, the two visitors are greeted by none other than Igor...
...nonverbal, body-oriented therapies that are fashionable in psychiatry today. Reprinted in paperback, his main works (The Function of the Orgasm, Character Analysis, The Mass Psychology of Fascism) have become standard reading in many university psychology departments. Now a skillful popular introduction to the life and therapy of the sexologist (Me and the Orgone; St. Martin's Press; $4.95) has been provided by-would you believe? -the aging merry-andrew of stage and television better known as Orson Bean...
...movie begins with a sobersided lecture by a bearded sexologist whose recondite Kinseyisms are interspersed with pornographic slides. Eventually, the action leads into the story of Isabela (Eva Ras), a sensual-mouthed switchboard operator who begins an affair with a sad-eyed ratcatcher (Slobodan Aligrudic). As the affair progresses, time begins to dissolve. Suddenly it is the future: she is dead, drowned in a well, while police search for her lover. Back in the present, the graphic lovemaking of Isabela and her ratcatcher is punctuated by an illustrated lecture on sanitation. Once again, it is the future, as her nude...