You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos (36 page)

54.
      Judith Hole and Ellen Levine,
Rebirth of Feminism
(1971), pp. 112, 134.

55.
      Abe Peck,
Uncovering the Sixties
(1991), p. 51.

56.
      The resident was Chester Anderson. Ibid., p. 47.

57.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 5.

58.
      Ibid., p. 10.

59.
      The launch was aided by the birth control pill’s 1960 debut, which freed women to have sex as casually as men. Ibid., p. 40.

60.
      It was a failure because her vagina was too tight.

61.
      It also became the first successful TV soap opera in the 1960s.

62.
      Grace Metalious,
Peyton Place
(1956), p. 203.

63.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 16.

64.
      Wendy Martin, April 1998, p. 138; and Lori Campbell, p. 130.

65.
      In the early 1990s half of all masturbators felt guilty. Robert Michael, et al.,
Sex in America
(1994), p. 166.

66.
      Philip Roth,
Portnoy’s Complaint
(1969), pp. 17–19.

67.
      Several late 1990s movie gags that put national attention back on masturbation were from
Portnoy’s Complaint
—including
There’s Something About Mary
(1998) where ejaculate goes unnoticed in hair, and
American Pie
(1999), where the liver is replaced with a pie.

68.
      Ranked the fifty-second best novel of the twentieth century by the Modern Library Board, a division of Random House, July 1998.

69.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 140.

70.
      Ibid., p. 141.

71.
      Ibid., p. 142.

72.
      In 2001 the first playmate appeared without pubic hair.

73.
      At the time they were popularly known as go-go clubs.

74.
      Reportedly from 34B bra size to 44D. Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 25.

75.
      Elizabeth Haiken,
Venus Envy
(1997), p. 247.

76.
      Gay playwright Larry Kramer credits Hefner with doing more for gay liberation than anyone else. Allyn,
Make Love
, pp. 161–162.

77.
      John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman,
Intimate Matters
(1988), pp. 123, 288.

78.
      Ibid., p. 289.

79.
      Ibid., pp. 288–289; and Allyn,
Make Love
, pp. 322–323.

80.
      John D’Emilio,
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
(1983), p. 26.

81.
      “Homosexuality in America,”
Life
, 26 June 1964, p. 66.

82.
      Paul Welch, “The ‘Gay’ World Takes to the City Streets,”
Life
, 26 June 1964, p. 68.

83.
      “The Homosexual in America,”
Time
, 21 Jan. 1966, p. 42.

84.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, pp. 145–146.

85.
      D’Emilio,
Intimate Matters
, p. 318; Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 146; and George Chauncey,
Gay New York
(1994), pp. 2, 373–374.

86.
      Paragraph from D’Emilio,
Intimate Matters
, pp. 331, 334.

87.
      As of 1992, the average age of first intercourse for a white woman born between 1942–1951 was roughly eighteen and three-quarters years old, vs. seventeen and three-quarters for a woman born between 1952–1961. Robert Michael, et al.,
Sex in America
(1994), p. 90.

88.
      As of 1992, there was a forty-four percent chance a woman born between 1942–1951 had performed fellatio, vs. seventy percent for a woman born between 1952–1961. Participation in anal sex for these two groups were twelve percent vs. twenty-four percent. Michael,
Sex in America
, pp. 140–141.

89.
      Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz,
American Couples
(1983), p. 201.

90.
      
Deep Throat
chronicles Linda Lovelace’s search for sexual pleasure, which proves elusive because her clitoris turns out to be located in her throat. In the opening, a man is performing cunnilingus on Lovelace and as she takes out a cigarette she apathetically asks, “Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?”

91.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, pp. 184, 234.

92.
      Tom Smith, “The Polls—A Report: The Sexual Revolution?”
Public Opinion Quarterly
, Fall 1990, p. 428.

93.
      It was
I Am Curious (Yellow)
(1969). “Photographer Says Mrs. Onassis Used Judo on Him,”
New York Times
, 6 Oct. 1969, p. 36.

94.
      The title is a play on the French pun, “Oh! Quel cul t’as!” which means “Oh, what an ass you have!”

95.
      Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 121.

96.
      Manilow performed at the Baths for New Year’s 1970. Goaded on by the naked crowd and disinhibited by alcohol and marijuana, he disrobed and hit the water too. Barry Manilow,
Sweet Life
(1987), pp. 100–101.

97.
      Liz Torres sang. Ibid., p. 99.

98.
      Dan Dorfman, “Franchising Sex,” 28 Nov. 1977, pp. 38–40.

99.
      “Inside Tale of Plato’s Flesh Pit,”
New York Post
, 23 June 2003.

100.
    John Leo, “Is There Life in a Swinger’s Club?”
Time
, 16 Jan. 1978, p. 53.

101.
    Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 238.

102.
    Kathleen Deveny and Raina Kelley, “Girls Gone Bad?”
Newsweek
, 12 Feb. 2007, p. 41.

103.
    Ibid., p. 184.

104.
    
Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
(1970), p. 374.

105.
    Paragraph from ibid., pp. 236–237.

106.
    Ibid., pp. 230–232.

107.
    Ibid., p. 202.

108.
    Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 188.

109.
    In the middle of the Civil War (1863), a Union captain wrote to President Abraham Lincoln complaining of the large number of pornographic photos being passed around by soldiers and officers. Lincoln does not appear to have shared the captain’s concern, as there’s no record of Lincoln doing anything about it. Richard Zacks,
An Underground Education
(1997), pp. 306–307.

110.
    Allyn,
Make Love
, pp. 280–281.

111.
    Sadomasochistic imagery was trendy in 1974. Department store catalogs would show scenes suggesting assault and a Rolling Stones’ billboard pictured a bruised woman and read, “I’m black and blue from the Rolling Stones.” Ibid., p. 280.

112.
    Ibid., p. 289.

113.
    Ibid., p. 281.

114.
    Carolyn Bronstein,
Battling Pornography
(2011), pp. 86–91.

115.
    Whitney Strub,
Perversion for Profit
(2011), p. 231.

116.
    Ted McIlvenny, caretaker of over 350,000 sex movies for the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, says that in his twenty-five years of following the porn business, he’s only seen three films where someone died. Two of them were accidental, with a man dying of a heart attack during an S&M scene and another man accidentally suffocating during an autoerotic asphyxiation. The third was a Moroccan religious film that showed a hunchbacked child torn apart by wild horses while men stood around and masturbated. Cecil Adams, “Is There Such a Thing as a Snuff Film?”
ChiReader.com
, 2 July 1993.

117.
    Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 281.

118.
    Allyn,
Make Love
, p. 273.

119.
    Ibid., pp. 273–274.

120.
    W. Richard Walker, John Skowronski, and Charles Thompson, “Life Is Pleasant,”
Rev. Gen. Psychol
., 2003, 7(2), pp. 203–210.

121.
    The original lists were created in the early 1980s by a Dallas fundamentalist Christian, T. Cullen Davis, to attack public schools. The lists were later used by California’s governor, California’s Department of Education, CBS News, and George Will in a
Newsweek
editorial. When a journalist finally tracked it to Davis and asked for evidence, Davis responded, “How did I know what the offenses in the schools were in 1940? I was there. How do I know what they are now? I read the newspapers.” Barry O’Neil, “The History of a Hoax,”
New York Times Magazine
, 6 Mar. 1994, pp. 46–49.

122.
    Stephanie Coontz,
Way We Never Were
(1992), pp. 39, 202.

123.
    Between one-quarter and one-third of the marriages formed in the 1950s eventually ended in divorce, and during that decade two million legally married people lived apart from each other. National polls in the 1950s found that twenty percent of couples considered their marriages unhappy. Ibid., pp. 35–36.

124.
    From 3,680 to 17,524. U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Statistical Abstract of the United States
(1960), p. 143; (1976), p. 163.

125.
    This culminated in the late 1970s with husbands no longer being immune to rape charges by their wives, and the institution of rape-shield laws that protected accusers from having to testify as to their sexual histories. Lawrence Friedman,
Crime and Punishment in American History
(1993), pp. 430–434.

126.
    In 1969, New York City had 2,415 complaints of rape, 1,085 arrests, and only eighteen convictions. Ibid., p. 432.

127.
    Ibid.

128.
    Diana Russell,
Politics of Rape
(1984), pp. 11–12.

129.
    Almost two thirds of rapes still go unreported. Callie Rennison, “Rape and Sexual Assault,” Dept. of Justice, Aug. 2002.

130.
    David Allyn,
Make Love, Not War
(2000), p. 292.

131.
    John Leo, “New Scarlet Letter,”
Time
, 2 Aug. 1982, p. 66.

132.
    Randy Shilts,
And the Band Played On
(1988), pp. 109–110.

133.
    “Reverend Reagan,”
New Republic
, 4 April 1983, pp. 7–9.

134.
    Its first speech mention was in “Message to the Congress on America’s Agenda for the Future,” 6 Feb. 1986.

135.
    Jon Cohen,
Shots in the Dark
(2001), pp. 1–2.

136.
    In 2005 President George W. Bush announced the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (Bird Flu) and submitted a $7.1 billion emergency budget request to Congress for preparedness funding. This was prior to the global human death toll breaking one hundred, with no deaths yet occurring in North America. In 1983 Reagan only wanted to raise federal spending for AIDS from $14.5 million in 1983 to $17.6 million in 1984. By 1987, the United States was the only major Western industrialized nation still without a coordinated education campaign. Shilts,
And the Band Played On
, pp. 359, 589.

137.
    Patrick Buchanan, “AIDS Disease,”
New York Post
, 24 May 1983.

138.
    Patrick Buchanan, “New Morality and Barney Frank,”
Bangor Daily News
, 4 Sep. 1989.

139.
    The administration’s hostility is verified by Reagan’s surgeon general. C. Everett Koop, “AIDS,”
Koop
(1991), pp. 194–239.

140.
    Edmund Morris,
Dutch
(1999), p. 458.

141.
    She believed California’s drought could be God’s punishment for the state’s liberal antidiscrimination laws. Tom Mathews, “Battle Over Gay Rights,”
Newsweek
, 6 June 1977, p. 16.

142.
    William Martin,
With God on Our Side
(1996), pp. 197–200; and Shilts,
And the Band Played On
, pp. 43–44.

143.
    Shilts,
And the Band Played On
, p. 474.

144.
    Koop was a fundamentalist Christian hero for his role in making abortion opposition an issue in the mid-1970s. For the first five years as surgeon general he had been instructed by the administration to stay silent on AIDS. After telling his superiors he could not be quiet any longer, his ensuing AIDS straight talk immediately turned him from a religious-right hero to a pariah. Koop, “AIDS,”
Koop
, pp. 194–239.

145.
    Shilts,
And the Band Played On
, pp. 588–589.

146.
    Dennis Altman,
AIDS in the Mind of America
(1986), p. 67.

147.
    Susan Harding,
Book of Jerry Falwell
(2001), pp. 156–161.

148.
    “Newt Set Strategy for Religious Right—10 Years Ago,”
Freedom Writer
, Feb. 1995.