American Women — Sex

  • Masters and Johnson. (Part 2 of 2)

    William H. Masters (1915 – 2001) and Virginia E. Johnson (1925 – 2013), the St. Louis-based sexologists better known as Masters & Johnson, discuss sex and religion, sex facts and fallacies, the aging factor in sex, approaches to sex, and misinformation about sex, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in December, 1973. A…

  • Margaret Mead interviewed by Gil Jardine

    Gil Jardine from WBAI’s Drama and Literature Department interviews anthropologist Margaret Mead about the Generation Gap, the subject of her new book, Culture and Commitment. Mead also speaks about other subjects such as love, pot, Woodstock, protest, and the population explosion.

  • Women’s sexual writing / produced by Jana Harris and Alan Soldofsky.

    Jana Harris discusses women’s sexual writing with Carol Bergé, editor of Center Magazine and author of Acts of Love and Poems Made of Skin, and Lenore Kandel, poet, author of The Love Book and Word Alchemy. Topics covered are the differences between the erotic and the pornographic, how large and small presses deal with sensitive…

  • Where’s the rub?

    This program is an investigation of the proposed licensing of massage parlors in New York in 1973. From the folio: City Council meetings held in December 1972? on massage parlors indicated that the majority of the Midtown places specialize in things other than the traditional massage. The mayor, pressured by real estate interests to get…

  • Women Against Pornography march in Times Square (October 1979)

    This recording contains music, interviews and speeches from the October 20, 1979 march in Times Square organized by Women Against Pornography. This is an unedited tape, perhaps a production reel. Speakers are not identified, and are sometimes cut-off. This is tape 1 of 2, but only this part is currently in the archives. “Fall 1980”…

  • What’s up: Verna Gillis interviews erotic film star Jamie Gillis

    Jamie Gillis, star of The Opening of Misty Beethoven and Through the Looking Glass, discusses his life as a porno film star. Interview conducted by and program produced by Verna Gillis.

  • One night of love: Victoria’s closet (Part 2 only)

    Victoria’s closet: dramatized excerpts of Victorian erotica, broadcast as part of “One Night of Love,” described in the folio as “an evening of erotic radio in which we ask the question ‘What is the difference between erotica and pornography?’” Play by Laurence Carr, directed by Steven Zuckerman. The cast of Victoria’s Closet is as follows:…

  • Trying to survive: prostitution and women’s work

    The third in a series of three documentaries about prostitution and women’s work (The Archives has only this part). This episode deals with the legal status of prostitution. Program produced by Adina Back, Phaye Poliakoff, Barbara Solow, and Marianne Connolly. Introduced by Eileen Zalisk. Program was financially assisted by the National Endowment of the Humanities…

  • Media review: May 30, 1981- Nicholas Johnson and Christie Hefner

    This episode contains two segments: 1. Former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson on television, violence and the recent attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Speech recorded at the 100th anniversary program of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; 2. Christie Hefner from Playboy Magazine is interviewed by Brennan Jones. She discusses the Playboy philosophy and the…

  • Male/female : masculine/feminine (sex and gender) (Episode 1)

    Dr. Virginia Bruce discusses sex and gender in our society, illustrates that the words masculine and feminine are culturally- rather than sexually-oriented terms, and differentiates them from the biological male and female. Speech delivered April 1970 at University of Southern California. Announcer is Stephanie Powsner.