09/11/2024
A mother’s desire for her son is a subject as old as the world of literature, and its theme, incest, can be traced back to Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot’s scheme to repopulate a supposedly desolate earth by sleeping with his daughters. The subject has been probed by Sophocles, and Freud defined the problem of […]
09/11/2024
Although Americans appear to the rest of the world as frank and open people, the truth is often, the opposite when it comes to relating on a personal basis. This is particularly true regarding sexual matters. The fact is, Americans are only now beginning to learn to discuss sex and sexuality with candor and usually […]
09/11/2024
The overwhelming problems some people face in the course of their lives can frequently prompt them to commit acts they might never consider under usual circumstances. There is the employee who, laid off from his job, stoops to theft in order to feed his family; the witness who perjures himself in order to save a […]
09/11/2024
The teenage girl searching for a “real man” to initiate her into the mysteries of sex — a theme a old as man. And in today’s “liberated” society, it could safely be assumed that an even larger percentage of young girls look toward older men to help get them over that first big step and […]
09/11/2024
It was Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, who remarked, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This statement appears to be just as true today as it was then. Perhaps it is even more valid today considering the pressures and frequent monotony of today’s world. The majority of today’s men and women live […]
09/11/2024
Outwardly suburbia maintains the straight laced, middle-class look that belies the social ferment behind closed doors. There in the secret use of drugs, fed by the marijuana syndrome. There is the river of alcohol flooding from door to door under the euphemism of social drinking. Thin, of course, inevitably there is the advent of wife-swapping. […]
09/11/2024
The process of growing up and passing through adolescence has been characterized by great inner turmoil, uncertainty, and tremendous pressures from family, close friends, peer groups and the neighborhood itself. Certainly, in our complex society, the problems youths face now seem more marked than ever before. Debby Devlin is a teen-ager embarking on her own […]
09/11/2024
Suburban wives have an image; they are all supposed to be sweet, concerned mothers who drive their children to school, watch soap opera, go to PTA meetings and cook for their husbands. But is this image real? The answer, like most serious answers, is a complex one. Many wives in fact do lead domestic, tranquil […]
09/11/2024
Oftentimes we are not prepared to deal with even the most basic human experiences — be they tragic or joyful. Life is filled with extraordinary situations which effect us in the most unexplainable ways — always seeming to take us completely unawares and unprepared. Indeed, life itself seems to be a never-ending string of capricious […]
09/11/2024
It often comes as a shocking blow to learn that a person one has held in high esteem is not what he appears to be. The model husband next door who is exposed as a wife-beater. The high government official wider investigation for corruption. The respected banker caught with his hand in the till. For […]