Male and Female

An intriguing theory on the social dangers of sex therapy was expounded last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dolores Keller, a professor of biology at Pace University and a sex therapist as well, put forth the theory that one of the prime factors in male impotence may be a predisposition to incapacitating stress, transmittable from parent to child.

If this is so, says Keller, by curing impotent men with such a predisposition, sex therapists will paradoxically add to the amount of impotence in the world by enabling these men to father children with the same stress disposition. More and more sex therapists would then be needed to catch up with the number of impotent men produced by sex therapy. In any event, she insists, the socially undesirable possibilities of trying to improve potency have to be considered, because the spread of male impotence may be nature's way of limiting population in an overcrowded world.

Psyche, the demure White Rock girl, has gone topless since 1894, when she first appeared on the beverage label. Now, however, White Rock has decided that she looks too risque, and her breasts may be covered. "It's surprising in these permissive days," a spokesman conceded. But, he added, "she will show a bit more thigh." Topless or not, Psyche has aged well. A pudgy 140 Ibs. 70 years ago, she is now four inches taller and weighs a svelte 118.

Lloyd H. Baillio, who is serving a term in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, has filed suit against the U.S. Attorney General, charging that he should be allowed to conduct a normal sex life with a woman of his choice. Denying prisoners the right to sex, the suit charges, is "cruel and unusual punishment... comparable to the Chinese water torture." A federal district judge in New Orleans will decide.

The reasons for the crime of rape have been endlessly debated, but only now, partly because of pressure from feminist groups, is systematic research under way. One psychotherapeutic program for convicted rapists, conducted at Rahway state prison in New Jersey, reports that 75% of the 150 offenders in treatment had been sexually abused as children, often so brutally that they repressed the memory.

Three convicted child molesters, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, are suing the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers for its use of electric shock to change sexual behavior. As part of the prison's aversion therapy program, shock is administered to the groin during a slide show of nude children, and stopped when slides of nude women are shown. The program is voluntary, but the three inmates allege that prisoners are denied parole unless they participate.

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