Volume V Number 1 September 1976 ISSN: 0091-3995 Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.

COLLEGE MALES AND THE NEW MASCULINISM

Gary F. Kelly, M.Ed., Director, Student Development Center, and Coordinator, Program, Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York

The college at which I work became coeducational just The Ma/e Traditionalist, who feels more comfortable twelve years ago, after a sixty-eight-year tradition of “men in the dominant role of guide, protector, and provider only.” As primarily a science-and-engineering school, the for women. He tends to believe that men should be all-male tradition was quite natural since women had previ- the sexual aggressors, that they should appear strong ously rarely ventured into the masculine domain of engineer- and controlled as well as controlling, and that double ing. The initial two or three years of coeducation at the standardism is legitimate. college appear to have been the most difficult, for it seems The Mediator Ma/e, who attempts to straddle both that the first few pioneering women were subjected to many worlds. His attitudes toward sexuality tend to follow a subtle forms of discrimination, prejudice, and pressure. somewhat opportunistic path of convenience and More recently women, present on the campus in greater manageability. numbers (11% of the student body), have been accepted by the men as respected-and appreciated-colleagues. Most men, regardless of their place in the male scheme Further, as industry strives to fulfill the pledges of affirmative of things, have experienced some turmoil and problems action programs, women have now begun to appear in the during this important period of change and growth in con- light of quite formidable competitors for jobs. temporary sexual values. New Masculinists must share in the In some ways, the shifting sex-related values of these constant struggle to learn how to communicate thoughts and college males represent in microcosm those of recent times feelings, and how to balance with their sexual partners the in the United States generally. Throughout North America, degree of exclusivity they wish to maintain in relationships. there is increasing awareness of the true meaning of the term The Traditionalists must cope with the feelings of threat “equality of women,” and of the prejudices to which women generated in them by women around them who will not have been subjected for centuries. Thus the pioneering accept their domination, and learn how to adjust when women are gradually but certainly opening the way toward women grow away from them because of feeling restricted or full respect and acceptance as equals. But the New Feminism isolated by a lack of emotional sharing. The Mediator Males has also generated a New Masculinism, for it has become as must face all of the difficulties of those who attempt a necessary for men to examine and reevaluate their own precarious balance between two ends of a spectrum, and sexuality as it has been for women to examine theirs. This carefully examine which of their values are genuine and reevaluation has included many aspects-interpersonal rela- which are the result of playing a convenient role. tionships, love, sexual performance and adequacy, the dou- ble standard, and career competencies. The results of the quest have been complex and varied. At the risk of over- Males and Sex simplifying, I would suggest that among college males, along with males in general, three distinct types of men are emerg- The 1970s have seen the emergence of sex therapy, and ing: with it a new awareness of what constitutes “sexual ade- quacy.” Until relatively recently, many men saw no need to 1. The New Masculinist, who enjoys sharing in the worry about their sexual performance because sex was atmosphere of equality, finding it liberating, refresh- primarily whatever they made it and was mainly for their ing, and manageable. He sees women as sexual enjoyment, anyway! Sexual problems could often handily be equals and is free to share his spectrum of emotions with others. Continued on Page 10 SPEAKING OUT

MASCULINISM AND FEMINISM

It used to be that men and women, in almost any culture or Conversely, a radio commentator once said to me, subculture that you could name, could take each other for “Mary, you are the greatest: you think just like a man.” I granted-that is, men acted, fought, related to women and to believe what we really see happening today in the men’s the total society in such ways as were considered accept- awareness and consciousness-raising groups is simply a kind able by the society. How women did the same, however, was of heady freedom to feel and to express feelings. Women’s considered to derive from and be secondary to the ways and groups, particularly the early ones, did the same thing, but wishes of men. That pattern, it would appear, is gone forever. because they were perhaps unconsciously aiming toward The question is, what is taking its place? role reversal they tended to be polemic, militant, and actually The movement of feminism that manifested itself in the hostile to men. What I am really wondering about now is late nineteenth century took a strong spurt in the twentieth why-having passed the first difficult step of looking at century with the surging women’s liberation movement in themselves so that women could understand that they do not the 1960s and ’70s. Perhaps the most publicized and signifi- need to be so anti-male, and men could accept that they need cant characteristic of the movement was the revelation, not not be so fearful of females-could not men and women, just of the existence of female eroticism, but of its power and boys and girls, particularly in high school and college, sit ubiquitousness. Here was something that, except for a few down together and learn how to-accept each other? Obvi- “bad” women, had been thought to belong almost exclusively ously, the special qualities that they would respond to to males. Now it was shown, over and over again, by men and positively should be qualities relating to each person, rather by women, to be a benchmark of femininity as well of masculin- than to membership in a given sexual collectivity. What ity. a strange, new, and exhilarating world without pretense or Along with the surge of eroticism came something called false values might be made by men and women for each female consciousness-raising or awareness, and apparently other-and themselves! hard on the heels of this has come the awakening of men to Mary S. Calderone, M.D. their own needs for awareness and consciousness-raising. Some claim this to be a kind of defense mechanism, in which men who have felt threatened by the activism of women strive to maintain or restore their formerly unquestioned positions of leadership, control, and advantage. The evi- dence points, rather, to the men’s movement as being not an September 1976 effort to maintain the status quo, but to be an effort of men to Volume V, Number 1 enter into dynamic male-female relationships which would be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and which despite The S/ECUS Report is published bi-monthly. Subscriptions the predominant emphasis in the public media are not are sold on a volume basis only, with volumes beginning in exclusively concerned with erotic interchange. September. Some years ago, at a meeting of the National Council on Subscription rates: Individual, $9.95 for one year; Canadian Family Relations, I carried out an interesting exercise with a and foreign, f5. Institutional, $15.00; Canadian and foreign, workshop group. As they entered, I asked the women to sit in E9. Single copies of any issue, $1.50. front and the men in the rear as listeners. 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2 StFCUS Report, September, 1976 IWHERE THE ACTION Is I

EXPLORING THE GEOGRAPHY OF MALE SEXUALITY

by Paul Siudzinski, M.A. Founder, New York Men‘s Center and Member, Men’s Anthology Collective

The common impression people have of men and’sex is that in their heads, plus their own (and our) stereotypes of who men “do it” to women. Male sexual language is that of the and what women are supposed to be. Speaking from my own battlefield, of the marketplace, of competition: men “con- experience, I have discovered that when a woman is willing quer,” men “make” women; men “score.” In the last few to take no for an answer it goes a long way toward telling me years I have begun seriously to examine male sexuality in what kind of relationship we might have. general and my own sexuality in particular. The vehicle for My sexual awareness underwent some further transfor- that exploration has been men’s consciousness-raising (CR) mations through a CR group which focused on massage. groups, first as a member, later as a facilitator. Wanting more choices in being with men than the stiff CR groups provide a forum for men to speak about their noninteraction called male friendship, we also get to explore sexuality, about gentleness, nonejaculatory sex, the plea- and expand the parameters of our physical, sensual selves. I sures of sensuality. Previously, in locker rooms and bars, we not only learned how to give pleasure to another person, but have had to lie, compete, brag. Here we can honestly share I learned a lot about my own body. I found out about parts of “how” we make love, comparing experiences and feelings, myself I barely knew existed and ways of relating I would gradually widening those socialized sexual limitations we never have thought to include in either sensuality or sexual- carry in our heads-and in our bodies. ity. Masturbation, , , and early My sexual relationships have gradually broadened in sexual experiences are common topics. As we let down our scope as I have experimented with massage, relaxation, and defenses, we sometimes surprise ourselves with what we sensuality, and have begun to include other things-like eat- say-and what we do not say. After a while we begin to talk ing, dancing, or just playing-without the goal of ejaculation about our insecurities and doubts. In an atmosphere devoid or orgasm. I have discovered that I have more choices of judgments and evaluations, we begin to reveal ourselves. because I can make love without following the dictates of my In the groups I have facilitated, I have observed that, penis: just because I have an erection does not mean I have although there is often a great deal of curiosity about sex, to do something about it. And my choices encompass an factual knowledge is usually limited to personal even broader spectrum because they also include whatever experience--or the lack of it. I have seen how many are out of choices my partner may have. touch, confused, self-conscious, and insecure when it comes My involvement with men’s consciousness-raising to sexuality, no matter how self-assured they are about other groups has altered significantly my views of male sexuality things. Although most men probably know themselves best and has had a dynamic effect on my own sexuality. Society’s sexually in terms of masturbation, the attitudes toward mas- definition of sexuality, particularly male sexuality, is more turbation in this country only serve to increase sexual objec- limiting than it is helpful. From what I have seen, men and tification and alienation. The penis is objectified and sexuality women have a lot of self-examination to do before either sex is separated from the self; sex becomes erection and ejacula- can begin to speak with knowledge or sensitivity about the tion; women or men become objects; sexuality becomes still relatively unexplored geography of male sexuality. largely fantasy. This is a major reason most men are sexually penis-centered. They may enjoy masturbation, fellatio, and intercourse, but find it difficult to get in touch with the nongoal-oriented, nonerective, nonejaculatory, sensual as- pects of sexuality. 1DO YOU KNOW THAT.. . Uncovering sexual stereotypes is a significant part of CR. The images of masculinity we carry in our heads are not merely comic-they are crippling: men are supposed to be Child Abuse ready and willing to take any woman anytime; men never say no; men are always aggressive; men have an insatiable sexual Child abuse, including sexual abuse, is receiving more and appetite; when you’re with a woman, particularly a woman more recognition. Parents Anonymous was established to other men find attractive, you of course want to have sex with refer to local chapters or to someone who might help in such her or else there is something wrong with you. The cases. Write: Parents Anonymous, 2810 Artesia, Redondo stereotypes are the same for all men; none of us feel we can Beach, CA 90278, or call, toll free (BOO) 3.52-0386. Incidentally, say no! Women also have all of these same expectations of us sponsors are needed for local chapters.

SIECUS Report, September, 1976 3 BOOK REVIEWS

Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of jects tried to keep cohabitation ar- From Machismo to Mutuality: Man- College Youth. Mirra Komarovsky. rangements secret. It was interesting to Woman liberation. Eugene C. Bianchi New York: Norton & Co., Inc., 1976 note that the author analyzed the in- and Rosemary Radford Ruether. New (274 pp.; $9.95). formation on the virgin subjects as a York: Paulist Press, 1976 (142 pp.; deviant group. They constituted $5.95). Reviewed by Anne Herndon, Ph.D., As- twenty-six percent of the sample and sistant Professor of Psychology, De- felt themselves to be deviants in rela- Reviewed by Diane B. Brashear, Ph.D., partment of Medical Social Science and tion to the felt expectation of sexual Director, Brashear Center, Indianapolis, Marital Health, Bowman Gray School of activity. This self-perception itself was a and S/ECUS Board Member. Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. cause of role strain, since the subjects were uncomfortable with their sexual Two major issues come to mind as I While there are numerous books and inexperience. read Rosemary Ruether’s essays: the articles on changing women’s roles, In these and other areas of relation- effects of major cultural institutions there has been less detailed attention ships, it appears that the least well- such as religion on sexuality, and the to problems that men are encounter- adjusted subjects are those who accept effects of the current revolution about ing. Komarovsky has undertaken such a the ideal of male superiority and do not sexuality on major institutions. Ruether study by examining role strains of col- see themselves as able to live up to it. and Bianchi have given us a powerful lege males. Some of the adjusted subjects also sub- historical perspective on these issues. This study describes role strains en- scribed to the ideal of male superiority, These essays cannot be treated lightly countered by seniors at an Ivy League but they see their personal attributes as and they offer much material for reflec- male college in 1969-70. Using the close to that ideal. As long as the sub- tion and discussion. Some readers may case-study method combined with jects hold the view of male superiority, feel limited in their own theological paper-and-pencil schedules and per- there is the potential for them to ex- backgrounds (as indeed I did initially); sonality tests, a wealth of information perience threat with exposure to however, the authors present their in- was accumulated on sixty-two ran- women who are their equals in one or terpretation of religious history so as to domly selected males. more areas, however. make it plausible and understandable. While role strain in intellectual rela- The author does not intend to As Ruether explains it, the first sym- tionships with females was present, it generalize to the male population as a bolic power was maternal, but as patri- was not as prevalent as might be ex- whole. She has provided useful, archal cultures grew in Hebrew and pected. The majority of the sample in- thought-provoking information about a Greek society, women became dicated no intellectual insecurity in segment of the male population which “quasi-property and permanent de- their relationships, for a variety of rea- is perhaps most currently touched by pendents.” Thus, she argues, women sons. Some felt superior to their female the movement toward egalitarian rela- could never grow up. As societies be- friends or were accepting of the wom- tionships because of exposure to came industrialized, women, with their an’s intellectual superiority because feminist students and the increased taboos and accumulated history from she had other weaknesses. Only two or likelihood of encountering female col- Eve on, became the symbols of a sen- three subjects appeared to be in truly leagues in work. timentalized morality. Love that was equalitarian relationships, however. This study clarifies some areas which spiritual denied the body and, she re- The author notes that because the ad- might be further examined: what stress- marks, “Again, the human level is justed majority also were highly am- es do men and women have in com- missed.” bitious, the potential for future role mon resulting from their changing She criticizes that part of the wom- strain may be present. Many of these roles? Does clear female superiority in en’s movement that confuses sexual men may find it difficult to weigh their a given area evoke stress for males, liberation and women’s liberation. partners’ achievement needs equally even when equality does not? Do men Basic to women’s struggle is their need with their own as they move into in other population subgroups en- to integrate the body with the rest of careers. counter the same or different strains? the woman. “Mind repression,” she The sexually active subjects encoun- Does resolution of role strains occur notes, “becomes a new way of avoiding tered guilt over exploitation, perfor- for the subject group over time? Do love and intimacy.” She challenges mance fears with experienced partners different strains develop? Those in- sexual “how to do it” programs as (a possibly increasing source of conflict terested in studying changing gender repressive to genuine intimacy, which as there is greater permission for young roles will find clarification of issues as develops out of relationship and com- women to be sexually active), and well as fertile ground for continued mitment and cannot be treated strain in relations with parents as sub- exploration within this volume. A, PR technologically.

Audience Level Indicators: C-Children (elementary grades), ET-Early teens (junior high), LT-Late teens (senior high, A-College, general adult public, P-Parents, PR-Professionals.

4 SlECUS Report, September, 1976 Bianchi, in examining , raises cus, lymphogranuloma venereum, and as a writing group. Their insight into an important distinction between phys- penicillin notatum. The graph on page their individual experiences of working ical and psychic celibacy, postulating 75 is unintentionally misleading, giving with many men and women from vari- that psychic celibacy keeps men and the visual impression that the number ous backgrounds and professional women mentally and emotionally of cases of gonorrhea and syphilis per levels to reach their consistent objec- apart. Thus, while today physical celi- 100,000 population is nearly equal, tive of self-development for all persons bacy may be abandoned, we need to whereas in actual fact the graph shows is a significant element of the book. consider most seriously how the that gonorrhea is seven times more Some of the expanded chapter con- church may be presenting the dualistic widespread than syphilis. (Actually, ac- tents include increased attention to projection that “Women and bodies cording to figures I have from the Pub- positive concepts of nutrition and body are bad, men and minds are good.” lic Health Service, the proportion is awareness, with emphasis on knowing Both Ruether and Bianchi challenge more like 30 to 1 in favor [sic!] of the extent of movement of which the the dualism within the church and our gonorrhea.) body is capable. Women and health culture. Many of their statements may On the whole, though, What About care stresses, alternative systems of seem generalized but are enlightening. VD? is a fine book for people strongly health care delivery encompassing on- This book represents a scholarly ap- motivated to learn through reading. For going self-assessment as an indicator of proach to the interfaces of two fields of others, one of the short pamphlets need for entrance to a system, consid- study--with en- recommended in the appendix would erations of sexist values which influ- lightened and provocative material. A, be more useful. ET, LT, A, P ence a woman’s image of herself have PR all been extended with numerous examples. The book is well worth reading for it Our Bodies, Ourselves. Boston Wom- is as engrossing as the human body What About VD? Phyllis S. Busch. New en’s Health Collective. New York: itself, but it can also be used as refer- York: Four Winds Press, 1976 (114 pp.; Simon & Schuster, 1975 (383 pp.; ence about specific concerns. The new $6.95). $4.95). edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves is a basic necessity for both men and Reviewed by Eric W. Johnson, teacher Reviewed by Evalyn S. Gendel, M.D., women of any and all ages who care of Sex Education, Germantown Friends Director, Division of Maternal and about themselves and their fellow School, Philadelphia; author of Love Child Health, Kansas State Department human beings. A, PR and Sex in Plain Language, VD, How to of Health and Environment, and former Live Through Junior High School. S/ECUS Chairperson.

Phyllis Busch’s book provides in about The second edition of Our Bodies, Joys of Oral love. Bernhardt J. Hur- a hundred fact-filled pages as much Ourselves is unconditionally recom- wood, ed. New York: Carlyle Com- information about the venereal dis- mended by this reviewer for both men munications, Inc., 1975 (224 pp.; $6.95, eases as any nonspecialist of any age and women. It is as informative and paper). could possibly need, and more than provocative as the first edition which most will want. It is nonmoralizing, was first published commercially in Reviewed by Wardell B. Pomeroy, Ph.D., objective, direct, complete, and up- 1972, although prior to that it had psychotherapist and S/ECUS Chair- to-date. Written for readers aged reached over 40,000 women in the Bos- person. twelve and up, the prose is easy to ton area. It was started as a small news- read, although I found it marred print handbook, privately published I began reading this book with consid- slightly by inconsistent tone, almost and dedicated to helping women to erable enthusiasm for I discovered it childish in spots, and much more know and learn more about themselves was not just talking about fellation and sophisticated elsewhere. Also, I think and their basic physical and mental cunnilingus, but about orality from kiss- the usefulness of the book would have health. Written by and for women, this ing to analinctus, and was talking been increased if the author had in- new edition is greatly expanded with about it so warmly and lovingly that cluded somewhere a one- or two-page material not previously included, on “Oral Love” is an appropriate title even summary of the facts essential to know menopause, breast cancer and self- though “Oral Sex” might have been in order to avoid, recognize, and be help, childbirth and childrearing. the more expected one. My positive cured of VD. Other chapters have been broadly re- feelings continued up to the last five I found the chapter “VD in Past vised to encompass the newer pages. Times” interesting, with excellent spe- technologies and understandings of The book is divided into three parts, cific examples under the headings “VD family planning, abortion, venereal of which Part One (“Past, Present, and and History” and “VD and Literature.” disease, rape, and considerations of Future”) is really top-notch. A historical The last chapter, a history of the de- parenthood, work, and career options. and anthropological “guided tour” is velopment of knowledge about VD is The increased knowledge and statisti- done briefly but well. Oral sex in litera- dull and anticlimactic. The vast glossary cal data in all of these areas are ture and films is also dealt with, cursor- at the end of the book is somewhat thoughtfully and carefully researched ily but meaningfully. Discussions on its overwhelming, containing some 175 and presented. legal aspects, and on the use of oral sex items ranging from simple terms like The collective authors also document by prostitutes, give us additional in- confidential, cure, and urine, to terms their own personal growth-through formation on this fascinating subject. only a specialist need know, like coc- problems and diversity over the years The final section in Part One deals with

SIECUS Report, September, 1976 5: kissing as extolled by five different “The mouth was made for kissing, for The book is divided into three per- poets. contact. There is no limit to the joy fectly valid sections-the case, the Part Two (“Free Talk and Frank Opin- and beauty possible in human relations. cause, the “cure.” But it is hard to tell ions”) is a long (84 pages), rambling, Essentially, love is a basic and simple act. one from the other, except that the repetitive panel talk-fest among twelve We use our bodies, our genitals, our “case stories” which are the main con- discussants who are all very liberal and mouths, to communicate, to share our tent of the book tend to be grouped open in regard to oral sex. There were love for one another. We should men- under different chapter headings. The writers (4, editors (2), a sculptor, a tion the one means of oral love which suggested “cure” would seem to con- painter, an actress, a film reviewer, a has made up yet been excluded from sist of one part creation of a depart- sex surrogate, and a college student. the previous pages: words. Our speech ment of education and youth, one part This whole section could well have is one more of the ways we have to provision of an improved juvenile jus- been cut in half. love together. Speak your love; do it tice system, and one part establishment The third part (“The Ins and Outs of openly and freely and honestly. That is of group homes adequately staffed. All Oral Love”) is primarily a “how to do really the oral love this book is about. told, this book falls into the all-too- it” chapter on all aspects of oral sex. We have tried our best to speak of love large category of opportunistic publica- Regardless of the intent of the authors, and to do it with love.” PR tions offered as substitutes for the seri- the major accomplishment of this sec- ous professional studies that are tion (as well as of the entire book) is not needed. However, it will undoubtedly so much as a manual on techniques but be read by many-including “chicken as giving permission and freeing For Money or love, Boy Prostitution in hawks”-for the character of the case stories. A, PR people of their inhibitions, thus allow- America. Robin Lloyd. New York: Van- ing them to be more comfortable with guard Press, Inc., 1976 (236 pp.; $8.95). their own orality and, hence, with their own sexuality. This part, and therefore Reviewed by William P. Brown, Ph.D., the entire book, are, however, marred School of Criminal justice, State Uni- Conception, Birth and Contraception: by sections on more exotic and “far- versity of New York at Albany, SIECUS A Visual Presentation (Revised edition). out” oral sex which, in another arena, Board Member. Robert J. Demarest and John J. Sciarra, could be of interest. Bondage, orgy M.D., Ph.D. New York: McGraw-Hill, scenes, and the use of food and drink The average parent or guardian who 1976 (145 pp.; $12.00). in connection with oral sex would finds that his son has been subjected to make me hesitate to recommend this a homosexual approach may respond Reviewed by Judith Falk, M.A., former book to patients or other lay persons with anything from extreme anger to an Director, Youth and Student Affairs, who are attempting to come to terms attempt to forget the incident as Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan with their own orality. quickly as possible. When Robin Lloyd, Washington, D. C.; presently graduate More important, I would have very an investigative reporter, found that his student in Mental Health, Johns Hop- serious reservations about such ques- son had been asked to pose in the kins University; SIECUS Board Member. tionable statements as “An acid or nude, he conducted an investigation mescaline trip can be quite memorable and wrote a book. Illustrations have rarely been utilized as if both parties are tuned in to each For Money or Love is an investigative clearly and beautifully to impart infor- other. The imprint can last for weeks.” reporter’s extended treatment of a mation about human reproduction as Or, “Cocaine is great for a man to give problem whose seriousness is com- in this fine presentation. There are sev- sustained head, and for a woman to pounded by our lack of knowledge as enty detailed illustrations, each of reciprocate to hours of tongue playing. to the frequency and effects of its man- which realistically portrays fundamen- Amyl nitrate capsules, known as pop- ifestations, and by our prevailing tals in conception, birth, and con- pers, are always good for a minute of mythology about the “chicken hawk” traception. Particularly noteworthy are sublime, sustained sexual joy and an- and his evil influences on the boys with the unusual drawings of the female guish, and are frequently used to sus- whom he has sexual relationships. pelvis with internal reproductive or- tain the heights just prior to and during The canons of investigative reporting gans, the series of developing fetuses orgasm.” If these last five pages had are not the same as those for scientific (in actual size), and the representations been omitted, it would have been a investigation: no thesis is needed; the of laparoscopic sterilization. The pic- useful book. concept is that the facts and opinions tures tell the story, accurately and con- Except for the above caveats, the of those involved will not only tell the cisely. While the text is secondary to book’s audience would be adults seek- story but probably lead to the answers. the illustrations, it is readable and sim- ing to develop more variety in their What emerges is a collection of snip- ply stated. Its goal is to expand upon lovemaking and to overcome their in- pets pasted together into a readable the illustrations, and this it does well. hibitions about oral sex. The book can and possibly informative book. The An excellent glossary is included. still be helpful to therapists, both for overall message is that boy prostitution This book will prove particularly use- themselves and for their counseling is prevalent and generally not particu- ful for junior and senior high school and therapy with their patients. larly harmful to the “perhaps 300,000 students. Parents and other lay adults The quite grainy illustrations give a boys, aged eight to 17 (chickens) . . . would also find it valuable. It carefully feeling of softness and lovingness to selling themselves to male adults avoids attitudinal or moral judgments. the entire book. The Afterword, here (chicken hawks) throughout the coun- It will serve as a valuable cognitive tool quoted in its entirety, is memorable: try every day.” for the sex educator. ET, LT, P, A, PR

,6 SIECUS Report, September, 1976 DO YOU KNOW THAT Ba B

Family life Education Training and interactions, and the use of explicit sexual teaching films. for Teachers of the Physically Disabled This course is one of the prerequisites for all extended training programs in sex counseling offered by the Human The Human Sexuality Program of the School of Medicine, Sexuality Program. Medical students, medical house staff, U.C. at San Francisco, has received a training grant from the and physicians who are paid members of medical facilities are HEW Office of Education to augment the training of special eligible for tuition subsidies from NIMH. education teachers in new approaches to family life educa- For more information, contact: The Registrar, Human tion for disabled students. The program (a series of three Sexuality Program, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 700, San seminars given during the school year) is open to special Francisco, CA 49143; telephone (415) 66-787. education faculty in schools of higher education, special education teachers, and special education graduate students during their practice teaching. Trainees involved will receive Sexual Health Services relevant instruction on sexual attitudes, sexual function of for Academic Communities persons with various disabilities, and family life curriculum development and implementation. Per diem, transportation A new publication of specific interest to those responsible for costs within California, and continuing education credit are the health and welfare of students in colleges and universities available. Those who wish further information orwho wish to is the result of two years of work by a liaison committee apply for training should write to: Carla Thornton, R.N., representing the American College Health Association, M.S., Human Sexuality Program, U.C. Medical Center, 350 SIECUS, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Parnassus Avenue, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94143. It is primarily for administrative and health personnel at college or university levels, and Dr. Matina Horner, president New SIECUS Publications of Radcliffe College, calls it “a valuable and realistic introduc- tion to the problems and issues involved in establishing and administering sexual health services.” It also contains much SIECUS’ Film Resources for Sex Education, in the 1976, that will be useful on the inclusion of sexual health as part of updated edition, is now available. Films, filmstrips, slides, overall health services and education at upper school levels, cassettes, and transparencies have been reviewed for this or in formalized programs (YMCA, YWCA, public or private guide by the SIECUS editorial staff or by members of its Board senior high schools, summer camps, or religious retreats for of Directors. Each annotated listing is categorized under one young people, etc.). It is available at $4.50 from the pub- or more of sixteen subject headings, and within each subject lishers: George F. Stickley Company, 201 West Washington category in ascending order according to audience level, Square, Philadelphia, PA 19106. from preschool through adult and professional. Copies may be ordered for $3.95 from Human Sciences Press, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. China Takes Contraception Seriously

Premarital Sexual Standards, SIECUS’ Study Guide No. 5, is Information coming from the People’s Republic of China now available in a newly revised and updated edition. Utiliz- shows that widespread educational programs and ideological ing his original research (upon which the first edition of this training are successful in controlling the birth rate. The Study Guide was based) as a foundation, Ira Reiss has February issue of the /PPF Medical Bulletin, published by the included in this new edition a discussion and summarization International Planned Parenthood Federation, reports that of the most recent research and analyses in the field. Order birth control in China embraces late , child spacing, copies at $1.00 each from Human Sciences Press, 72 Fifth and readily available contraception. A low-dose oral con- Avenue, New York, NY 10011. traceptive is evidently very popular, but both male and female sterilizations are widely used by couples who have completed their families. In addition, an experimental Professional Training Program Offered once-a-month pill is employed, as well as a “visiting hus- band” pill. (Many Chinese couples are separated for varying The Human Sexuality Program of the University of California lengths of time because of their work.) This oral contracep- School of Medicine/San Francisco will repeat its twenty-hour tive is taken eight hours before intercourse; another version course for health and helping professionals, “Health Aspects is taken immediately before or after intercourse. With com- of Human Sexuality,” on October 29-31, 1976. A broad range munal groups organized down to the smallest village level, of topics in the area of human sexuality will be covered in the there is evidently strong group pressure to defer marriage course of didactic presentations, small-group discussions and to practice birth control. In China it seems to be working.

SIECUS Report, September, 1976 7 IA~D~~-VI~UAL REVIEWS I

SEX AND THE HANDICAPPED

[The May, 1976, issue of the SIECUS als who deal with the handicapped in area of sexuality training, and have Report included a selected and anno- any capacity whatsoever. As this aware- been used successfully in so many tated bibliography of printed materials ness grew, special audio-visual mate- training sessions under professional dealing with sex and the handicapped. rials became available, and have already auspices as to make unnecessary any No audio-visual materials were listed, more than proved their worth in the special evaluation by SIECUS. How- and most of the items selected were training of professionals to understand ever, it must be remembered that final aimed at handicapped individuals and assist with the sexual needs and evaluation of the appropriateness of all themselves, or their families. problems of handicapped individuals. training materials, explicit or not, must Inclusion of the topic of sexuality has The following materials, some of an be made by those in charge of the train- only slowly become recognized as explicit nature, are listed because they ing program. -Ed.] necessary in the training of profession- are pioneer efforts in this important

Mental Retardation and Human Sexual- Resource Center, 540 Powell Street, Center, 540 Powell Street, San Fran- ity. Sound filmstrip, LP record, 20 min. San Francisco, CA 94108. Price: Part I, cisco, CA 94108. Price: $300; rental, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern $220; Part II, $300; both parts together $50. Pennsylvania, 1220 Sanson Street, $480. Rental: Part I, $40; Part II, $50; Philadelphia, PA 19107. Price: $20; both parts together, $70. Dr. Theodore Cole discusses sexuality rental, $5. and its meaning with two male para- Dr. Theodore Cole, professor of physi- plegics and their wives, a male quadra- Used to orient parents, teachers, and cal medicine and rehabilitation at the plegic and his wife, and a female para- institutional staff to the need for sex University of Minnesota Medical plegic. They discuss their “adventures education for the retarded, especially School, discusses with two cerebral and nightmares,” and their attitudes in the light of their very real emotional palsied men and women some of their about life and sex. Such details as in- needs, and of the concern of the adults experiences with sexuality and self- continence, attractiveness, the dis- responsible for/about them with such image as they grew up. The four partic- abled subculture, and sexual fulfill- issues as contraception, sterilization, ipants share their most intimate feel- ment are treated with much humor as abortion, and marriage. ings. In Part I, they discuss how their well as insight. In spite of difficulties parents and doctors handled the sub- with understanding some of the speak- ject of sexuality and how they learned ers, the empathy created by this film is like Other People. 16mm, color/ to compensate in school. In Part II, important in opening up the topic of sound, 37 min. Perennial Education, they discuss their adult experiences sexuality with health professionals Inc., 1825 Willow Road, P.O. Box 236, with sexuality-learning about it, want- working with the spinal cord-injured. Northfield, IL 60093. Price: $375; rental, ing it, learning to feel confident about $37.50. it and how to fight anti-social attitudes. Possibilities. 16mm, color/sound, 12 Focuses on the sex-related problems of min. MultiMedia Resource Center, 540 the cerebral palsied and their efforts to Sexuality and the Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108. cope with these. The narration is by Spinal Cord-Injured Person Price: $175; rental, $30. palsied individuals, and subtitles are provided where speech is seriously dis- The following three films were created This is a sensitive film showing a male torted. The issues discussed include specifically to help professionals and quadraplegic’s sexual relationship. A employment, marriage, privacy, and others who must deal with the question couple’s warm feelings for each other, the capacity of handicapped persons to of sexuality and spinal cord-injured and several of their pleasuring give and receive love in the light of persons. All three emphasize the pos- techniques, are shown. He talks of the their wish to be treated as adults, with sibility and positive nature of this, and extent of his C-5X-6 injury and areas the same desires and needs as others. serve to demythologize some popular of sensation, and relates the injury’s misconceptions about it. impact on his , how he has changed in the last year, what he likes Don’t Tell the Cripples About Sex. sexually, and his new confidence in 16mm, color/sound. Two parts: Part I, Just What Can You Do? 16mm, color/ himself. 16 min.; Part II, 23 min. MultiMedia sound, 23 min. MultiMedia Resource The techniques shared by the couple

8 SIECUS Report, September, 1976 in this explicit film were developed over the space of a year, and their McCarthy and friends have col- affection and caring for each other SEXUAL AWARENESS lected much of the best informa- tlon about sexual functioning come through very clearly. They are in A PRACTICAL APPROACH and communtcation, then pre- their early forties, in the setting of a sented rt with exercises designed hospital-like room. Bdrry\X! /‘&Cathy May Rym to enhance or change sexual re- sponses The integration works Fred A. Johnson . There is no need to reserve this book for professlonal use; real Touching. 16mm, color/sound, 16 min. people, with or without real sex- MultiMedia Resource Center, 540 Pow- ual problems, can benefit from / reading it You learn what to do, ell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108. how to do it, and how to talk with Price: $210; rental, $40. your partner about what you are The exercises cover self- \ exploration, genital and non- The male in this explicit film had a C-6 genital pleasuring, responsive- spinal cord injury four years before ness, comfort, and the most com- the relationship depicted began. He mon forms of sexual dysfunction has had some return of movement in his ” One chapter describes a regimen developed for aging couples The arms and hands, but there are only two reader is repeatedly urged to view areas below his shoulders in which he hld~l Ordc>r [1~~1)1 the exercises as guidelines, adapting can experience any response to direct I3oytl & Fr,~\clr I’uhllshi~~g the suggestions to fit one’s own style. 3627 Sac ramflnto Street S/ECUS REPORT, January 1976 stimulation. He cannot have an erec- San Iranrlsco, CA 94118 papclr, $5.95 cloth, $8 95 tion, but the relationship of the couple - is seen to be warm, full, intimate, and fully satisfying to both of them. The e . primary means of sexual expression f open to persons with this type of lesion BEHAVIORAL LEARNING SYSTEMS is oral sexuality, as is clear in the film. FOR SEXUAL THERAPY A. BOOKS: “The Behavioral Treatment of Sexual Problems. Volume 1 : Brief Therapy” “The Behavioral Treatment of Sexual Problems, Volume 2: Intensive Therapy” New From Duxbury Press by Jack S. Annon, Ph.D. B. FORMS AND INVENTORIES: (male and female versions) Sexual Fear Inventory--Sexual Pleasure Inventory--Heterosexual Attitude Scale-. Heterosexual Behavior Inventory--Sexual Response Profile--Patient Profile Form C. AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS: (male and female versions) Audio Cassettes: Sexual Satisfaction--Learning About Self Stimulation--Teaching Sexuality Today Your Partner About You--Learning About Your Pelvic Exam--Sex and Pregnancy Slides: Sexual Anatomy-Heterosexual Behaviors and Tomorrow D. SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS: Seminars in brief therapy approaches to the management of sexual problems presented in Honolulu and other locations upon request and availability of Contemporary Issues faculty. in Human Sexuality For further information and a copy of our free brochure write: Sol Gordon & Roger W. Libby :~~NhBLlNGSYST~MSINC. CNVIRONMCNTALAND BCHAUORAL LGlRNINC SVSTCMS La Villa Professional Plaza at Eaton Square/444 Hobron Lane, Suite 311/Honolulu, Hawaii \ . 96815/

A wide-ranging collection of original essays and judiciously selected pieces from classic and recent works in human sexuality. Teen Values Project Begun The emphasis is on the major The New York State Coalition for Family Planning, concerned social, cultural and political issues concerning sexuality and sex role with the rising number of unwanted teen pregnancies, has definitions and their interrelation- begun a project which will involve teenagers themselves in ships in contemporary society. clarifying the systems of normative values which result in Contributions by Mead, Ellis, nonuse of contraceptives by sexually active teenagers. A Kirkendall, Calderone, Sontag, major component of the program will be the development, Rimmer and others. by teenagers, of media ideas designed to encourage young people to consider how they make these decisions in their Oct. 1976 450 pages Paperbound $7.50 lives and, hopefully, to modify their behavior. For further Duxbury Press, 6 Bound Brook Ct. information, contact Ms. Susan Ross, Project Coordinator, N. Scituate, MA 02060 New York State Coalition for Family Planning, 105 East 22nd 4 / tel. 617-545-2674 Street, New York, New York 1001@-(212) 667-0250.

SIECUS Report, September, 1976 New Masculinism-Continued from page 7 Variant Sexual Behavior blamed on an unresponsive female partner. But as increasing Young people are generally more tolerant and accepting numbers of women have tuned in to their great potentials for of variations in sexual behavior than their elders. There are sexual responsiveness and have recognized their right to still those who insist that heterosexual intercourse is the only enjoy sex, new sexual pressures have been generated for “normal” and “natural” kind of sex, but many accept men. Typical of this dilemma was a recent advertisement in a homosexual and other behaviors in others, even though they popular magazine for a brand of condom, on whose wrapper may not be so inclined themselves. However, new levels of appeared the statement that the textured surface of the sexual tolerance have not necessarily reduced the worries product was “designed for her pleasure.” that some youthful males have about their own sexual feel- College males sometimes feel such pressures intensely. ings. Even occasional homosexual fantasies or attractions can A too-brief sexual encounter because of premature ejacula- still send a young man into a tailspin of fear and self-doubt, tion is a source of shame and worry. Continuing and although most males seem to have accepted masturba- impotence-always a frustrating concern for men-becomes tion as a part of their spectrum of sexual behaviors, some of an issue causing both partners to evaluate the quality of their the old myths still exist. There are still those who believe relationship. Retarded ejaculation causes women to question masturbation to be an activity of adolescents and the sexually men about how much they enjoyed the sexual experience, unfulfilled, which makes them feel guilty or ashamed when much as men have typically questioned women about their they themselves masturbate. Thus, though masturbation may orgasms or lack of them. Yet, few colleges offer any oppor- be joked about. among college males, discretion is also still tunities for sex counseling and therapy, and available coun- the better part of valor, and discussion of one’s own mastur- seling staff members are seldom adequately prepared in batory patterns is generally confined to the past tense. sex-related areas. The surfeit of undiscriminating books and College courses in human sexuality are, currently and magazines on sexuality, and the nature of the explicit sex thankfully, in vogue. In addition to credit courses, special films available to college youth, only serve to compound programs are being offered in health services, residence these difficulties through misinformation, exaggeration, and halls, freshman orientation periods, and mini-courses. The the encouragement of shallow relationships. V.D. lectures and “hygiene” classes of the past have been With the disappearance of parietal rules in residence replaced or supplemented by frank discussions of sexual halls, many young people have had to struggle increasingly values, feelings, and behaviors, and men are flocking to the with the responsibilities of their own sexual decision-making courses along with women. In a six-session mini-course on in the face of the “scorecard sex” that is still alive and well in sexuality which I recently conducted, a// of the registrants American colleges and universities. Casual one-night stands were men. It seems that today, when it comes to sex, plenty are commonplace, and bragging about numbers of sexual of males are no longer hesitant to admit that they have a lot to partners is definitely not a thing of the past. However, it learn and talk about. seems that there exists a great deal of dissatisfaction among college males with a continuing pattern of . I have Trends for Males talked with numerous young men who-although they ac- cepted their casual sexual encounters without guilt as For several years, women and their sexuality have been a momentarily enjoyable-felt unfulfilled and frustrated, wish- primary focus of sex-related discussion. Bookstores are ing to integrate sexual sharing into a more lasting, committed swamped with volumes on feminism, female sexuality, and human relationship. As one young athlete with an impressive self-help suggestions for women’s sexual problems. Con- “scorecard” told me recently: “I want something different, sciousness-raising groups for women abound. Women have something better. My sex life has no meaning at all. It’s as if had a distinct movement to which they could hold on and I’m plugging myself into some machine-no face, no feel- react, whether or not they espoused the principles of the ings, no sharing. I’ve got to find out about love.” movement. The growth process for women that has been One of the complex questions which college youths generated by this movement has had its share of turmoil and have had to face is that of exclusivity. We have just passed frustration, but I believe it has been a healthy and positive through a period during which commitment to exclusivity in process. sex was seen as limiting and old-fashioned. The deceit of the Men, on the other hand, have been drifting, left to old double standard gave way to the concept that, when two redefine masculinity in terms of the women’s movement. people really love one another and feel secure in their While some books have been published on male sexuality, relationship, they should be able to tolerate loving and sexual for the most part they have not been based on sound re- contacts outside of the “primary” relationship. While some search. Consciousness-raising groups for men, about men, couples may have made this concept work, many more have have had only limited availability. However, I believe that run into difficult situations of jealousy, hurt, and conflict. things are changing; a distinct “Men’s Movement” is under Young males who once would have expected their girlfriends way. Men are rediscovering their emotions, their sexual to understand their own occasional “sexual indiscretions”- capabilities, and their need for warm, loving relationships- if these were discovered-found that they had great trouble with women and with each other. Duplicating the trend of in accepting their girlfriends’ relationships (sexual and the women’s movement, there is already a countermovement otherwise) with other males. To an extent, a renewed interest among men. While there are still those who want to preserve in and commitment to some degree of exclusivity in sex the more traditional sex roles of manhood and to revel in seems to be emerging among college men. Many college-age their macho images, yet, again mirroring the trend among couples are still struggling with these issues in an attempt to women, even the Traditionalists are becoming aware of find the values for sexual functioning which best fit their changing sexual values and more interested in improving lifestyles. their own sexual relationships.

10 SIECUS Report, September, 1976 Much remains to be done in meeting the new needs of men. Colleges and other educational institutions can begin DO YOU KNOW THAT.. . to take the lead in what they offer their male students. New 1 findings pertinent to sex education and sex therapy must begin to filter into programs open to men in these institu- Resources to Write For . . . tions. Academic departments, university health services, counseling centers, student health and personnel workers, Sexuality and the Spinal Cord Injured Woman by Sue Breg- and other agencies can begin to cooperate in creating new man is a 22-page booklet for women who are physically opportunities for men to look at manhood and sex. disabled and for health professionals who work with them. For a long time now males have been locked into Based on interviews with spinal cord injured women, this restrictive, dishonest, and toxic roles which have not allowed booklet provides very specific advice for achieving sexual them to be fully functioning sexual human beings. Today, we fulfillment. Order from: Sister Kenny Institute, Department have the knowledge and skills that can help willing males to 199, 1800 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404. Price: $1.25. emerge from these roles and to grow. Men can learn how to tune in to the masculine sensuality of their bodies, without All About Vasectomy is a 12-page pamphlet that presents in having to doubt their heterosexuality. They can be helped to question-and-answer format the most frequent concerns turn furtive, over-in-a-minute sex into excitingly relaxed, expressed about the male sterilization operation. Should be lengthy sexual experiences, regardless of whether the activity useful as a handout for patients who have sought counseling is masturbation, petting, or intercourse. Men can be freed to about a vasectomy. Order from: Planned Parenthood-World accept the highs and lows of their own individual sexual Population, 810 7th Ave., New York, NY 10019. Price: 25@ responsiveness without having to worry constantly about each, 100 for $15. “proving” their manhood through artificial standards of sex- ual performance. They can learn to manage their sexual Sex Education for Disabled Persons, Public Affairs Pamphlet feelings and behaviors responsibly and to discard the char- No. 531, presents a convincing case for sex education for acter-crippling and dishonest stereotypes of wild, uncon- handicapped persons, and discusses their special problems trollable male sexual drives. And finally, males can achieve regarding marriage, children, and genetic counseling. the communication skills necessary for the establishment of healthy, growing human relationships based on mutual shar- Male “Menopause” Crisis in the Middle Years, Public Affairs ing, trust, caring, and commitment. It is through such Pamphlet No. 526, distinguishes the differences and awarenesses and relationships that their sexual natures-not similarities between male and female menopause. The major only as men but as human beings-can be fully realized. focus is on the psychological stresses in the middle years for men. Order from: Public Affairs Committee, 381 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016. Price: 35$ each; discounts for quantity orders.

Resource Guide on Christian Education in Sexuality is a 24-page pamphlet that offers a rationale for sex education in Paul R. Miller, M.D. the church setting and provides annotated listings of re- sources for use in both the home and the church. Order HUMAN SEXUALITY from: Office of Family Ministries, National Council of Its Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology Churches, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027. Price: A comprehensive presentation of the human sexual experience $1 .oo. for use in sex education, therapy, and counseling. Available in three formats, they may be purchased and used individually or as a complete program. Report of the Pilot Training Workshop in Human Sexuality & Narrated slide-tape (or filmstrip) program - Photographs Sex Counseling describes in detail the organization and and line drawings of human anatomy, the stages of inter- process of an unusual training program, and provides a course, and the response of the partners. Slides: $89.00; model that others conducting human sexuality training might Filmstrip: $75.00 wish to study. Order from: State Services Office, Carolina Heterosexual Intercourse - Color-sound film of a typical Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, couple and their method of lovemaking. 16 mm: s 180.00; Super 8 mm: s150.00 NC. Price: $1.50. Manual Stimulation - Color-sound film depicting the spon- taneous acts of a male and female in satisfying the partner. 16 A Study Guide is now available for the thirty half-hour video mm: $180.00; Super 8 mm: $150.00 cassettes of the course on Human Sexuality that was pro- A previewing fee of $25.00 must accompany each order re- duced by Milton Diamond, Ph.D., at the University of Hawaii quested on approval. The fee is non-refundable but will be School of Medicine (see review in S/ECUS Report, January, applied to the price of any format purchased. All formats are sent 1976). A consortium of central California community colleges on 20 day approval. which used the course for an enrollment of 2500 students asked Lleni Jeffrey and Dr. John Blakemore of Monterey WlLL~A~lLKliS Peninsula College to prepare the guide for student use. It is &al&rue. Maryhnd 21202 also keyed to Katchadourian and Lunde’s recently revised fundamentals of Human Sexuality as a basic text. Order single copies prepaid for $5.50 from Dr. J. Blakemore, 4 Forest Knoll Road, Monterey, CA 93940.

SIECUS Report, September, 1976 11 *SIEClJS OFFICERS-1976 LARRY PAUL SCOTT RICHARD GREEN, M.D. JOHN A. MALLOY. M.A. Greenwich, Connecticut Chairperson-Wardell B. Pomeroy, Ph.D Personnel Director Professor. DeDariment of Psvchiatw Touche. Ross & Company and Behavioral Science ’ MARCELLA MARTINEZ Chairperson-elect-Alan P. Bell, Ph.D. Newark, New Jersey State University of New York Assistant Director, Tourism for Jamaica Vice Chairpersons- THE REV. JAMES A. SIEFKES, B.D. Stony Brook, New York Jamaica Tourist Board Michael Carrera, Ed.D. Director for Discovering Ministries PERRY E. GROSS, M.D. New York, New York Morton Sontheimer The American Lutheran Church General Practice W. RAY MONTGOMERY, President Mette Strong Minneapolis, Minnesota Dallas, Texas Realty Trust Company Secretary-The Rev. Leon Smith, EdD. THE REV. LEON SMITH, Ed.D. THE REV. WALTER HARRELSON, Th.D. Dallas, Texas Treasurer--Georgia Neese Gray Director of Educational Ministries Dean and Professor of Old Testament DONALD H. RIDDLE, Ph.D. in Marriage Divinity School. Vanderbilt University President United Methodist Church Nashville, Tennessee *SIECUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS-1976 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Nashville, Tennessee JOHN L. S. HOLLOMAN, JR., M.D. New York, New York ALAN P. BELL, Ph.D. MORTON SONTHEIMER President, Health & Hospitals Corporation Senior Research Psychologist RABBI JESHAIA SCHNITZER. Ed.D. President, Sontheimer and Company, Inc City of New York Temple Shomrei Emunah Institute for Sex Research New York, New York New York, New York Indiana University Montclair, New Jersey Bloomington, Indiana METTE STRONG JACQUELYN JOHNSON JACKSON, Ph.D. ETHELRINE SHAW, R.N., M S. Greenwich, Connecticut Associate Professor of Medical Sociology DIANE B. BRASHEAR, M.S.W., Ph.D. Assistant Professor FRANK E. TAYLOR Department of Psychiatry School of Nursing Private Practice Duke University Medical Center Indianapolis, Indiana Publisher Ohio State University Frank E. Taylor Books Durham, North Carolina Columbus, Ohio WILLIAM P. BROWN, Ph D. New York. New York MARCUS H. JAFFE GILBERT M. SHIMMEL, Ed.D., M.P.H. Professor of Criminal Justice Senior Vice President R Editorial Director School of Criminal Justice Professor and Director Bantam Books, Inc. Community of Health Education Program State University of New York, Albany New York, New York Albany, New York Institute of Health Sciences ‘SIECUS ADVISORY PANEL-1976 G. WILLIAM JONES, M.Th.. Ph.D. Hunter College4.U.N.Y. PAULINE CARLYON. M.S., M.P.H. ROBERT L. ARNSTEIN, M.D. Associate Professor of Film Art New York, New York Project Coordinator, National PTA Southern Methodist University Comprehensive School/Community Health Psychiatrist-in-Chief LAURA J. SINGER, Ed.D. Dallas, Texas President, SAM (Save A Marriage) Education Program Deoariment of Universitv Health National Congress of PTA’s k& University GARY F. KELLY, M.Ed. Fellow and Past President, American Chicago, Illinois New Haven, Connecticut Director, Student Develovment Center Association of Marriage and and Program in Human Sexuality Family Counselors MICHAEL CARRERA, Ed D. DERYCK D. CALDERWOOD, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Health Education Clarkson College of Technology New York, New York Professor of Health Education Potsdam. New York RALPH SLOVENKO, Ph.D Community Health Education Program New York University School of Education Hunter College School of the New York, New York LESTER A. KIRKENDALL, Ph.D. Professor Health Sciences GEORGE C CHAMIS. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Famllv Life Wayne State University Law School New York, New York Coordinator, Family Life Education Program Education Detroit, Michigan Flmt Community Schools Oregon State University HELEN F. SOUTHARD. M.A. RICHARD A. CHILGREN, M.D. Corvallis, Oregon Director, Program in Human Sexuality Flint, Michigan Actino Director. Data Center University of Minnesota Medical School HASKELL COPLIN. Ph.D. RABBI BERNARD KLIGFELD, M.A. Nat&al Board, YWCA Minneapolis, Minnesota Professor of Psychology Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach New York, New York Long Beach, New York JUDITH R. FALK, M.A. Amherst College WILHELMINA THOMAS Former Director, Youth and Student Affairs Amherst, Massachusetts DANIEL H. LABBY, M.D. Principal, Walker-Jones Elementary School Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan FOSTER Q. DOAN, B.A., B.D. Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry Washington, D C. Washington, D.C.; and Westtown School University of Oregon Medical School EARL UBELL Graduate Student I” Mental Health W&town. Pennsylvania Portland, Oregon Director, Local TV NewsNew York Johns Hopkins University LORNA BROWN FLYNN, M.A. E. JAMES LIEBERMAN, M.D.. M.P.H. NBC-TV GEORGIA NEESE GRAY Washington, D.C. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatrv New York, New York Howard University Medlcal School Chairman of the Board ISA0 FUJIMOTO, Ph.D. VERNON E. WILSON, M.D Capitol City State Bank&Trust Co. Assistant Professor, Department of Washington, D.C. Vice Chancellor for Medical Ethics Topeka, Kansas Socioloav and Applied Behavioral Sciences HAROLD I. LIEF, M.D. Vanderbilt College J. ROBERT MOSKIN, M.A. Universit;bf Califdrnia Director, Marriage Council of Nashville, Tennessee New York, New York Davis, California Philadelphia, Inc. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WARDELL B. POMEROY. Ph.D. EVALYN S. GENDEL, M.D. Psychotherapist Associate Director, Division of Maternal ROBERT C. LONG, M.D. New York, New York and Child Health Associate Professor of Obstetrics and PHILIP M. SARREL. M D. Kansas State Department of Health Gynecology and Director, Associate Professor of Obstetrics Topeka, Kansas Division of Human Sexualitv and Gynecology THE REV. WILLIAM H. GENNi, M.A., B.D. 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