Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976
Sex in the Head
By J.M. Cameron
From Machismo to Mutuality: Essays on Sexism and Woman-Man Liberation
by Eugene C. Bianchi, by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Paulist Press, 142 pp., $5.95
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies
compiled by Nancy Friday
Pocket Books, 336 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Binding with Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church
by Richard Ginder
Prentice-Hall, 251 pp., $8.95
Sexual Behavior in the 1970s
by Morton Hunt
Dell, 395 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Noble Lovers
by D.D.R. Owen
Phaidon, 191 pp., £8.50
The Modernization of Sex
by Paul Robinson
Harper & Row, 200 pp., $8.95
The Homosexual Matrix
by C. A. Tripp
McGraw-Hill, 314 pp., $10.00
'Revolution,' like 'tragedy,' is a bit overused; but there can't be any doubt that we are in the course of, perhaps at the end of, a revolution in sexual mores. From Sweden there has just come a report that a government committee has recommended that children be legally free to make their hetero- or homosexual debuts at fourteen, that all legal prohibitions of incest be lifted, and that the word 'homosexual' be dropped from the terminology of the law. As to what goes on, it is easy to say what has happened in our society, and I will attempt a short account presently, but it isn't and can't be clear how far behavior that is in one sense characteristic represents how most people conduct their lives.
Review, 7876 words
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