American Sex and Sexuality

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 31 -- August 3, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #231, August 7, 2012

American Sex and Sexuality:
The Sorrow and the Pity

In brief

This week we replay another of the earliest installments of New World Notes: #11, from April 2008.

With jaundiced eye and sometimes tongue in cheek, we survey the sad state of sex and sexuality in the US. Highlights include Helen Gurley Brown's 1963 advice to married men on how to conduct an affair, ... Pat McCormick's parody of a TV game show exposing adulterers, ... an article on Eliot Spitzer (the New York Governor who resigned following news exposure that he patronized prostitutes), ... and a monologue by KD.

Above: Helen Gurley Brown (early 1960s), publisher of Cosmopolitan magazine, author of Sex and the Single Girl and of the advice-packed LP, Lessons in Love

Notes, credits, & links

Music added: Cris Williamson, "Dream Child"; P.D.Q. Bach, Round: "Nellie is a Nice Girl"

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "bad influence") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

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Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)

• August 14 -- Radio Great Jean Shepherd

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