American Women — Sex
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Professionals in crisis: call girls and prostitutes
Mary Bess and Peggy Holter interview three prostitutes, two male and one female, about the social forces that are a part of their lives, their relationships to men, their sexual affiliations with women, and the importance of drugs. Two customers and a pimp are also interviewed. Iceberg Slim, author and former pimp, is heard. Contains…
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Man and wife / James Purdy ; read by Jack Nessel. (Episode 4 of 4)
Morning reading. “Man and Wife” by James Purdy read by Jack Nessel. Note: FCC sent letter of inquire accompanied by a complaint letter dated June 18, 1965. “In my opinion it contained vulgarity, sordidness, in addition to the irreverent use of the name of Jesus Christ.” Pacifica replied it did not consider the program to…
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The Housewife’s handbook of selective promiscuity / interviewed by Fred Haines.
Maxine Serett, who wrote the book “The Housewife’s Handbook of Selective Promiscuity” under the name Rey Anthony, discusses her book and her ideas concerning sex in modern American life. The book was based on the attitudes towards sex Serett encountered in her own personal life, and she explains that she wrote the book in the…
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The call girl / Dr. Harold Greenwald
Dr. Harold Greenwald, author of The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study (Ballantine), discusses the modern form prostitution takes in the United States, and its relation to the general moral aspect of the nation. Recorded in the studios of WBAI in 1960. Broadcast on WBAI and KPFA in 1961 and 1962.
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The power to prescribe / moderated by Albert Fine
Rabbi Alvin Fine (b. 25 Oct. 1916; d. 19 Jan. 1999), professor of humanities at San Francisco State College referees a 3-way duel between Dr. Don Jackson, director of the Mental Research Institution at Palo Alto, Dr. Albert Long, chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Presbyterian Medial Center, and Dr. Donald…
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Is there sex after 64? / Dr. Earl Marsh and Mickey Apter ; hosted by Peggy Stein.
A discussion that challenges the myth that, thanks to our society’s emphasis on youth and beauty, older people are uninterested in and incapable of enjoying sex, stressing the importance of touch and affection, the differences and lack of them in the sexuality of elders. The participants are Dr. Earl Marsh, gynecologist and psychiatrist and medical…