Sexes: Sexology on the Defensive

New questions about the research of the pioneers It might have been a scene from a TV courtroom drama. At the Sixth World Congress of Sexology in Washington,...

The Sexes: Street-Corner Sex Clinics

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...

The Sexes: Trick or Treatment?

Though she lives in the San Francisco suburb of Tiburon, 30-year-old Susan Greene is hardly the typical suburban housewife. A graduate of Cornell University,...

Behavior: Sex Before Sport?

"I went out and grabbed this girl and brought her back to the hotel, and we had a good time the whole night. It's good for you. It loosens you up good for the...

Biology: The Chemistry of Desire

Eight years ago, after she had a hysterectomy at age 42, Roslyn Washington was left with an unexpected side effect. Her doctors, who had recommended removing her...

BEHAVIOR: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex

Is there a living, breathing adult who hasn't at times felt the nagging suspicion that in bedrooms across the country, on kitchen tables, in limos and other...

Medicine: Special Report: Good and Bad News About AIDS

The barrage of scary rhetoric and hyperbole began not long after young homosexual men started dying by the thousands in the early 1980s. Dire warnings of an AIDS...

Medicine: Just How Does AIDS Spread?

First there was the news everybody wanted to hear: a New York physician writing in Cosmopolitan reassured women that there is practically no risk of contracting...

Medicine: An Outbreak of Sensationalism

Most people think that fear should have no place in the cool, reasoned realm of medicine. But its presence, strengthened by prejudice and denial, has whipsawed...

Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport

Mark the following propositions True or False: ΢ The American people have at last been liberated from the long night of Victorian prudery. The sociosexual...