{Cycles of liberation and restraint}[7th February 1991]

[Redbook8:235][19910207:1506]{Cycles of liberation and restraint}[7th February 1991]

19910207.1506

[A cutting in the ms of an article in [The] G[uardian] 19910205:[p]8 headed “Academic talk that makes the toes curl” by Derek Brown in New Delhi, covering the proceedings of the “Orgasm Conference”, includes the following annotated extracts:]

‘It is Dr Reinisch’s contention that “sex-positive” attitudes in much of the world have given way to “sex-negative” ones. She offered, over tea, the example of India, whose people created the sinuously explicit temple carvings of of Khajuraho and elsewhere, but now live in one of the most myth-ridden societies.*

‘A similar retreat from frankness has happened in Japan, where every coital possibility was graphically illustrated in the erotic prints used by Dr. Reinisch to illustrate her talk.** (If the lady has curled toes, she’s having an orgasm, it seems.)

‘The West, no less than the East, has its cyclical bouts of liberation and restraint.’

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*Built c[irca]950-1050CE

2008A~

**Presumably dating within the last two centuries or so?

***Yes, I know that press-cuttings are no substitute for Evidence....

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