Word: tripp
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Unlike blue-collar workers, who know that when the economy perks up the companies will usually call them back, executives have no such assurance. Says the Dearborn, Mich., executive recruiter William Tripp, who has been swamped with applications from furloughed automen: "These layoffs look a lot more permanent than in 1974. The industry is really retrenching, and a lot of people just are not going to be asked back...
...Tripp, a pro-gay psychologist and author of The Homosexual Matrix, thinks sadomasochistic practices are rare in heterosexuality and virtually nonexistent among lesbians, but relatively frequent in homosexuality because of "the additive effect of two males together." In Tripp's view, the average heterosexual who wants to play sadomasochistic games with his wife or girlfriend will be disappointed. Despite the male fantasy of a masked, booted, whip-wielding beauty, most women seldom want anything to do with SM. In male-to-male relationships, there is no such shortage of players, and leather bars make them easy to locate...