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Milwaukee Bucks GM Jon Horst talks to the media after relieving Jason Kidd of the head coach position before Monday's game against the Suns. (0:45)
The Milwaukee Bucks fired head coach Jason Kidd on Monday, the team announced.
Kidd told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne that Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo called him about 15 minutes before Kidd was officially notified he'd been fired by the Bucks and offered to help save his job.
"He called me and said, 'Coach, this isn't right what they're about to do, but (they) are gonna let you go,' " Kidd said.
Kidd says he told Antetokounmpo that "I had a feeling that was gonna take place."
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To which Antetokounmpo replied: "What can I do? I'll call the owners, I'll call my agent."
Kidd said he told him, "There's nothing you can do. All you can do is tell the truth. That's it."
Kidd said he thanked Antetokounmpo for his loyalty and that he was "thankful to be able to coach him and help him become the player he is today. And I know when our paths cross again, he'll be much better."
Kidd said he was officially informed he'd been fired about 15 minutes later when he met with general manager Jon Horst and team president Peter Feigin at a pizza restaurant.
Assistant Joe Prunty will coach the team Monday night against the Phoenix Suns. He will serve as interim coach for the rest of the season, co-owner Wes Edens said in an interview before the game.
"We appreciate everything that Jason has done for the Bucks organization, but we have decided to make a coaching change," Horst said in a statement. "We believe that a fresh approach and a change in leadership are needed to continue elevating our talented team towards the next level, bringing us closer to our goal of competing for championships.
"Jason led a historic turnaround during his first season and would guide our team to two playoff appearances. He also played a meaningful role in helping to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee. We thank him for all of his contributions and wish him the best."
Horst then released a letter to fans, in which he said the decision to fire Kidd was made with the "unanimous support of ownership."
"Many factors went into this decision," the letter continued, "but ultimately we decided that a fresh approach and a change in leadership are needed to continue elevating our team to the next level and bringing us closer to our goal of winning championships. We believe that making this change now is important for the organization and gives our players the best chance to reach their full potential this season and beyond."
Despite a talented roster that features Antetokounmpo and recent trade acquisition Eric Bledsoe, the Bucks are 23-22 and currently are the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Milwaukee has lost four of its past five games entering Monday's home game against Phoenix.
Kidd was 139-152 overall as the Bucks' coach, leading the team to playoff appearances in his first season with the team (2014-15) and in 2016-17. Kidd, who also coached the Nets for one season in 2013-14 has a 183-190 career record.
Kidd is a 2018 nominee for the Basketball Hall of Fame after a 19-season NBA career in which he won a Rookie of the Year Award (1994-95, shared with Grant Hill) and was a 10-time All-Star.


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The Marengo County Economic Development Authority will soon say goodbye to two board members, whose terms expires Dec. 31.
Josephine Hall-Blackwell and Scott Collier were presented with certificates of appreciation on Thursday, Nov. 8 at the last official board meeting for the year.
The certificate read: "In recognition of outstanding contributions to the Marengo County Economic Development Authority (MCEDA) from its creation until Dec. 31, 2012."
Two board members will soon leave the EDA. Shown is EDA executive director Brenda Tuck, board members Josephine Hall-Blackwell, Scott Collier and extension office representatives Kathyrn Friday at the recognition ceremony.
Brenda Tuck, executive director for the EDA, and others thanked the two for the time and effort they have given on behalf of the economic development authority.
Newly sworn in probate judge Laurie S. Hall will also leave the group. Elected officials cannot sit on the board.
Kathryn Friday, of the Marengo County Extension Office, said the board members have contributed greatly to the MCEDA.
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The board will welcome new members soon.


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#include "third_party/blink/renderer/modules/speech/testing/mojom_speech_synthesis_mock.h"

#include <memory>

#include "base/memory/ptr_util.h"
#include "mojo/public/cpp/bindings/self_owned_receiver.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/task_type.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/execution_context/execution_context.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/platform/heap/persistent.h"

namespace blink {

mojo::PendingRemote<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesis>
MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::Create(ExecutionContext* context) {
  mojo::PendingRemote<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesis> proxy;
  mojo::MakeSelfOwnedReceiver(base::WrapUnique<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesis>(
                                  new MojomSpeechSynthesisMock(context)),
                              proxy.InitWithNewPipeAndPassReceiver());
  return proxy;
}

MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::MojomSpeechSynthesisMock(ExecutionContext* context)
    : speaking_error_occurred_timer_(
          context->GetTaskRunner(TaskType::kInternalTest),
          this,
          &MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::SpeakingErrorOccurred),
      speaking_finished_timer_(context->GetTaskRunner(TaskType::kInternalTest),
                               this,
                               &MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::SpeakingFinished) {}

MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::~MojomSpeechSynthesisMock() = default;

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::SpeakingErrorOccurred(TimerBase*) {
  DCHECK(current_utterance_);

  current_client_->OnEncounteredSpeakingError();
  SpeakNext();
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::SpeakingFinished(TimerBase*) {
  DCHECK(current_utterance_);
  current_client_->OnFinishedSpeaking(
      blink::mojom::SpeechSynthesisErrorCode::kNoError);
  SpeakNext();
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::SpeakNext() {
  if (speaking_error_occurred_timer_.IsActive())
    return;

  current_utterance_.reset();
  current_client_.reset();

  if (queued_requests_.empty())
    return;

  SpeechRequest next_request = queued_requests_.TakeFirst();

  Speak(std::move(next_request.utterance),
        std::move(next_request.pending_client));
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::AddVoiceListObserver(
    mojo::PendingRemote<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoiceListObserver>
        pending_observer) {
  Vector<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoicePtr> voice_list;
  mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoicePtr voice;

  voice = mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoice::New();
  voice->voice_uri = String("mock.voice.bruce");
  voice->name = String("bruce");
  voice->lang = String("en-US");
  voice->is_local_service = true;
  voice->is_default = true;
  voice_list.push_back(std::move(voice));

  voice = mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoice::New();
  voice->voice_uri = String("mock.voice.clark");
  voice->name = String("clark");
  voice->lang = String("en-US");
  voice->is_local_service = true;
  voice->is_default = false;
  voice_list.push_back(std::move(voice));

  voice = mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoice::New();
  voice->voice_uri = String("mock.voice.logan");
  voice->name = String("logan");
  voice->lang = String("fr-CA");
  voice->is_local_service = true;
  voice->is_default = true;
  voice_list.push_back(std::move(voice));

  // We won't notify the observer again, but we still retain the remote as
  // that's the expected contract of the API.
  mojo::Remote<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisVoiceListObserver> observer(
      std::move(pending_observer));
  observer->OnSetVoiceList(std::move(voice_list));
  voice_list_observers_.emplace_back(std::move(observer));
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::Speak(
    mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisUtterancePtr utterance,
    mojo::PendingRemote<mojom::blink::SpeechSynthesisClient> pending_client) {
  DCHECK(utterance);
  DCHECK(pending_client);

  if (current_utterance_) {
    queued_requests_.emplace_back(
        SpeechRequest{std::move(utterance), std::move(pending_client)});
    return;
  }

  current_utterance_ = std::move(utterance);
  current_client_.Bind(std::move(pending_client));

  current_client_->OnStartedSpeaking();

  // Fire a fake word and then sentence boundary event.
  int char_length = current_utterance_->text.find(' ');
  int sentence_length = current_utterance_->text.length();
  current_client_->OnEncounteredWordBoundary(0, char_length);
  current_client_->OnEncounteredSentenceBoundary(0, sentence_length);

  // Give the fake speech job some time so that pause and other functions have
  // time to be called.
  speaking_finished_timer_.StartOneShot(base::Milliseconds(100), FROM_HERE);
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::Cancel() {
  if (!current_utterance_)
    return;

  // Per spec, removes all queued utterances.
  queued_requests_.clear();

  speaking_finished_timer_.Stop();
  speaking_error_occurred_timer_.StartOneShot(base::Milliseconds(100),
                                              FROM_HERE);
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::Pause() {
  if (!current_utterance_)
    return;

  current_client_->OnPausedSpeaking();
}

void MojomSpeechSynthesisMock::Resume() {
  if (!current_utterance_)
    return;

  current_client_->OnResumedSpeaking();
}

}  // namespace blink

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This study found that participants experienced a difficult time transitioning from foster care to independent living, felt unprepared after leaving foster care, needing additional services, and expressed wanting to have received more in depth financial management skills. This study recommends providing additional independent living skills, social support, and participation in the Independent Living Program as part of foster youth's case plan when preparing to transition out of foster care into independent living.
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Board of can-
Vessors,
the duties now devolving on them in the territory taken from said county until the county officers of Baraga shall be elected and qualified.
Sec. 5. And the board of canvassers of said county under this act shall consist of the presiding inspectors of elections from each township therein, and said inspectors shall meet at the village of L'Anse, in said county, on the second Tuesday after the election, and organize by appointing one of their number chairman and another secretary of said board, and shall thereupon discharge all
duties of a board of county canvassers for county and state officers. Judicial relation. Sec. 6. The said county of Baraga shall have concurrent juris
diction on Lake Superior with the counties contiguous thereto, and
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Sec. %. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved February 19, 1875.
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for losses,
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AN ACT for the protection of inn and hotel keepers.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That
keeps safe for hereafter every landlord or keeper of a public inn or hotel in this
custody of mon-
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such guest to retain in his room or about his person. Punishment SEC. 2. Every person who shall at any hotel or inn order, or for obtaining cause to be furnished any food or accommodation, with intent to food, credit, etc.,
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forth,
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of The Improved Order of Red Men, and to repeal chapter one hundred and twenty-two of the compiled laws, being an act to provide for the incorporation of societies of Pocahontas Tribes of Improved Order of Red Men.
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Second, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in the law, and the place of its business office;
Third, The object and purpose of such association, which shall be to promote the general welfare of the fraternity known as the "Improved Order of Red Men," and the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years.
SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together with a copy of articles, copy of the charter and constitution of said Great Council, shall stitch be filed with the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons State. who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates Powers of corand successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name poration. expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law, capable to purchase, take, receive, hold, and enjoy, to them and their successors, estates real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal, which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real Proviso--real
and personal and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dol- a lars, and that they and their successors shall have power to give, ration limited. grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real and personal estate, or part thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents, and incomes shall be devoted exclusively to the charitable and benevolent purposes of the Improved Order of Red Men.
etc., to be filed with Secretary of tions, and elect
estate of corpo
Evidence of corporation.
tribes subject to
Powers to estab- Said corporation shall have full power to make and establish rules, lish rules, regola
Oct* regulations, and by-laws for regulating and governing all the officers, etc.
affairs and business of said corporation not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States, and to designate, elect, or appoint from its members such officers, under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the constitution of the Great Council of the United States.
SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the State, duly certified according to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of
the existence and due incorporation of such corporation. Power to charter SEC. 5. Such corporation, when duly formed, shall have power Tribes and make to institute and charter subordinate tribes of said order within rules, etc., for this State, and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, and their govern
establish such general laws and by-laws, ordinances and regulations for the government of such subordinate tribes not repugnant to law or to the constitution or regulations of the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men of the United States, as to them shall seem proper and necessary, and in case of violation or noncompliance with such ordinances, by-laws, and regulations, to
revoke and annul the charter granted to such subordinate tribes : Proviso-existing Provided, That the existing subordinate tribes heretofore duly control of Great chartered by the Great Council of Michigan, or of the United Council as here- States, shall be subject to the control of the said Great Council
under this act as heretofore, and in the same manner, and to the same extent as those that may hereafter be instituted and char
tered under this act. Incorporation by Sec. 6. Any seven or more persons, residents of this State, being Tribes or immembers of a tribe of Improved Order of Red Men, having been proved Order of duly chartered by the Great Council of the Improved Order of
Red Men of this State, desirous to become incorporated, may make
and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, association,
specifying, as provided in article two of this act, and file a copy of such articles with the clerk of the county in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose; and thereupon the persons who shall have signed said articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in such articles of association; and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law, capable to purchase, hold, enjoy, grant, sell, give, lease, and demise real and personal estate, of suing and being sued, and may have a common seal, and change and alter the same at pleasure; and a certified copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the county where the said record is kept, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this
State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation: Proviso-real Provided, That the value of such real and personal estate shall estate of corpo
not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and that they and ration limited.
their successors shall have authority and power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real and personal estate, or part
Red Men,
Powers of corporation.
and personal
fices, etc., and create a capital
thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents, and income shall be devoted exclusively to the charitable and benevolent parposes of the Improved Order of Red Men.
SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act may May erect edi. erect and own such suitable editice, building, or hall as to such are corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meet- stuck therefor. ings of the tribes or conocils of the Improved Order of Red Men; and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than ten thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than ten dollars each ; and any such corporation may take, purchase, May own ground
for cemetery. hold, and own such suitable lot or parcel of ground as may be con- for recient for the purpose of a cemetery, and may make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of lots and the burial of the dead therein as to such corporation may seem proper. SEC. 8. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject Subject to chap.
180, U. L., 80 lux to the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty of the com- as applicable. piled laws of this State, so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act, and the Legislature may alter or amend this act at any time.
SEC. 9. Chapter one hundred and twenty-two of the compiled Act repealed. laws, being an act to provide for the incorporation of societies of Pocahontas Tribes of Improved Order of Red Men, is hereby repealed.
[ No. 17. ] AN ACT to amend sections serenty and ninety-three of an act
entitled "An act to provide for a uniform assessment of property, and for the collection and return of taxes thereon," being Bections one thousand and thirty-six and one thousand and fiftynine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections amended sections seventy and ninety-three of an act entitled "An act to provide for a uniform assessment of property, and for the collection and return of taxes thereon," being sections one thousand and thirty-six and one thousand and fifty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended so as to read as follows:
(1036.) Sec. 70. Any person may pay the taxes, or any one of Payment of taxes the several taxes, on any parcel of lands returned as aforesaid, or on aner retur any undivided share thereof, with interest calculated thereon from the first day of February next after the same were assessed, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, and the office charges, and four per cent as a collection fee, to the treasurer of the county in which the lands are situated, at any time before they are sold for taxes, or to the State Treasurer on the certificate of the Anditor General, at any time before the twentieth day of September pext preceding the time appointed for such sales: Provided, That on all taxes Proviso.
Redemption of lands.
remaining unpaid on the first day of June next after the same were assessed, interest shall be computed at the rate of twenty per cent per annum from the said first day of June.
(1059.) SEC. 93. Any person owning any of the lands sold as aforesaid, or any interest therein, may on or at any time previous to the thirtieth day of September next succeeding such sale redeem any parcel of said lands, or any part or interest in said lands, by showing to the satisfaction of the Auditor General or county treasurer that he owns only that part or interest in the same which he proposes to redeem, and by paying, at his option, into the State Treasury, or to the treasurer of the county where such land is situated, the amount for which such parcel was sold, or such portion th reof as the part or interest redeemed shall amount to, with interest thereon at the rate of twenty-five per cent per annum ; which interest shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the purchaser.
Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
ty officers.
of holding canvass, eto.
[ No. 18.)
AN ACT to organize the county of Isle Royal. County of Isle Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Royal organized. the several islands in Lake Superior, known as Isle Royal, and the
islands adjacent thereto, shall be organized into a separate county, by the name of Isle Royal, and the inhabitants thereof, entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities to which by law the in
habitants of other organized counties of this State are entitled. Election of coun. SEC. 2. There shall be elected in the said county of Isle Royal on
the first Tuesday in July next, all the several county officers to which by law the said county is entitled, and the said election and the canvass thereof shall in all respects be conducted and held in
the manner prescribed by law for holding elections and canvasses Time and place for county and State offices: Provided, That the canvass of such
election shall be held at the place of holding the election in the township of Isle Royal, on the Monday next following said election, and said county officers shall immediately be qualified apd enter upon the duties of their respective offices, and their several terms of office shall expire at the same time that they would have expired had they been elected at the last general election; And provided further, That until such county officers are duly elected and qualified, the duties of such county officer shall be discharged by the several persons elected to fill the same for the county of
Keweenaw at the last general election. Board of can Sec. 3. The board of canvassers of said county, under this act,
shall consist of the inspectors of elections from each township therein; and said inspectors shall meet at the time and place designated in this act; and shall organize by appointing one of their number chairman, and another secretary of said board ; and shall thereupon proceed to discharge all the duties of a board of
vassers.


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I know, I know I didn't post anything yesterday and honestly couldn't really find anything to post about today, except for the fact that there is nothing to post about.
Well we both know that there is all kinds of stuff going on in Hollywood but honestly, It seems to be the same old stuff. Remakes & Reboots of classic films, more 3d (crap) movies coming out, I really don't see much hope for the future of film right now. I really need something to get me(all of us) out of this movie depression.
Can no one out there make something truly Original and make the world watch in amazement? When was the last time you were really excited to see a movie, I have to say it has been a while for me. There are a few movies I have posted about that I want to see but honestly they will probably just end up being disappointments like a lot of other "Blockbuster" films have been.
I know that I am not alone when saying that we don't really need anymore move remakes/reboots but an Industry reboot and soon. Is there any light at the end of this long dismal tunnel? Let's hope so, I can't take much more and I bet you can't either.
What are your thoughts on Hollywood right now?


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The Sexual Counterrevolution
The sexual revolution brought excess as well as progress. In the aftermath of AIDS, a new puritanism threatens to repeal both.
by Scott Stossel
D uring the 1984 primary season, Ronald Reagan worried publicly that Americans were having too much sex. Promiscuity, he lamented, had become "acceptable, even stylish." The very word "promiscuity," with its reproachful moral overtones, had been replaced by the more accepting term "sexually active." What had once been "a sacred expression of love," had become "casual and cheap." The country's moral fabric was fraying dangerously. Who had set us on this road to Sodom? Liberals.
Accusations like Reagan's do not necessarily presume that liberals are friskier than other people-believe it or not, one study actually found that the very conservative are 10 percent more likely than the very liberal to be conducting extramarital affairs and three times more likely than the very liberal and the moderate to find sadomasochism an acceptable practice. Rather, Reagan's comments represent a typical version of the traditional conservative's interpretation of the "sexual revolution": It was part of the sinful sixties-seventies counterculture; it was a weakening of morals caused by trends and policies, such as wider availability of contraceptives and broader acceptance of premarital sex, that liberals advocated; and it was bad.
The sexual revolution is clearly one of those ideological battlegrounds-like the conflicts over college curricula, abortion, and "the sixties"-where liberals and conservatives clash over culture, politics, and religion simultaneously. Many liberals would insist-rightly-that the sexual revolution helped bring about changes for the better: broader rights for gays and women, wider use of contraceptives, acceptance of premarital cohabitation. Many conservatives would insist-also rightly-that the sexual revolution undermined traditional social and religious bonds and that this loosening of mores caused an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Conservatives have used the epidemics of AIDS and other STDs to reenergize their traditional moral arguments against sex outside marriage. Liberals, on the other hand, still champion what they consider to be the revolution's moral gains; they advocate improving contraceptive availability and sex education to preserve these gains while fighting disease and raising awareness.
Today we live with what many people believe-despite some studies showing sexual activity today to be as promiscuous as, if not more promiscuous than, at the height of the revolution-is a counterrevolution ushered in by AIDS. But is this backlash against the revolution a reality? What is the connection between public morality and public health? And who has more authority to speak on these issues: liberals advocating sex education and public health, or conservatives advocating abstinence and self-discipline?
Sex, Science, and History
On May 10, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a new drug produced by G.D. Searle & Company, called Enovid. Some 21 years later, on June 5, 1981, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly reported the appearance of a strange new pneumonia in five otherwise healthy gay men. On neither day were the consequences of these events imaginable to most people. But "the pill" and AIDS serve in the popular imagination as the watershed developments that catalyzed and then killed the sexual revolution.
It is not entirely clear, however, that a discrete "sexual revolution" is anything more than a cultural artifact. Although there is clearly a countervailing trend toward more puritanical attitudes in some segments of society, the preponderance of evidence shows that sexual behavior has remained "loose"-and may even be continuing on a loosening trend-in the time of AIDS. Nor, contrary to popular mythology, did the revolution really begin with the birth control pill: The same trends can be traced back to the end of World War I.
By 1918 sex had begun to escape its institutional confinement in marriage and was starting to become an accepted-or at least acknowledged-part of the culture. During the 1920s, for example, the number of young women engaging in premarital sex jumped sharply, to about 50 percent of the cohort. Economic prosperity after World War II shifted values away from puritanical self-denial and toward a demand for consumer goods; by the 1960s, having lots of sex had become almost a commercial moral imperative. Business began catering to nonmarital sex: A new kind of establishment, the "singles bar," became a standard feature of the urban landscape; convenience stores sold "one-night-stand kits" that came with a toothbrush, condoms, razors, and, for women, an extra pair of underwear; and the concept that "sex sells" became ever more apparent in the proliferation of sexual scenes and innuendoes in entertainment and advertising.
In the 1950s, less than 25 percent of Americans thought premarital sex was acceptable; by the 1970s, more than 75 percent found it acceptable. Between 1960 and 1980, the marriage rate dropped by about 25 percent; the average age of marriage for both men and women rose steadily; and the number of divorced men and women jumped by 200 percent. All told, according to a study by Adweek magazine, single people as a percentage of the total American adult population rose from 28 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 1993. The sexual revolution was in full swing.
I t is significant that most people attribute the rise and decline of the revolution-now consolidated by popular understanding into a finite event-to developments that are not strictly speaking "moral" or "political." The birth control pill was a technological advancement; AIDS was a medical threat. Thus the vaunted loosening and then tightening of sexual mores that bracket the revolution are in some sense more reducible to biology and technology than to changes in religion or politics or morality per se.
This blending of science and morality is not a new phenomenon. In nineteenth-century America, physicians began to take the place of both church and state as the authoritative source of sexual norms. Victorian-era doctors and much of the public understood sex by analogy to the second law of thermodynamics, believing that profligate sex led to mental and physical degeneration. With this in mind, entrepreneurial inventors developed such devices as a genital cage that would ring an alarm when a boy wearing it had an erection, to prevent masturbation. STDs lent scientific urgency to calls for stricter sexual morality: In the 1890s, conservatives were quick to label a burgeoning syphilis epidemic divine retribution for an era in which the rules governing sexual behavior were losing their force.
A century later, AIDS was-literally, for some on the religious right-a Godsend. "AIDS is God's judgment on a society that does not live by its rules," declaimed Reverend Jerry Falwell. For the biblically inclined, this argument had a certain logic to it. After all, we had been warned: The herpes virus, afflicting as many as 30 million people by the early 1980s, had been deemed "the new scarlet letter" in a 1982 Time magazine cover story explicitly linking the disease to promiscuity. AIDS led to invigorated calls for monogamy and abstinence by religious leaders and public health officials. Both religious and secular authorities now had a powerful weapon, in the form of a medical threat, with which to bring the sexual revolution to a crashing halt.
Today, science has become so woven into moral discourse about sexuality that it is hidden in plain sight. Ironically, this conflation of scientific and moral rhetoric in discourse about sexual activity owes much to the work of an obscure midwestern entomologist who in the 1940s set out to separate religious and moral shibboleths about sex from actual sexual practices.
Natural, Normal, and Moral
In 1938, Alfred Kinsey, a professor in the zoology department at Indiana University, was known only for being the world's foremost expert on a small, stinging insect called the North American gall wasp. But that year, when the university inaugurated a new course on marriage and asked Kinsey to give lectures for it, the sexual world shifted on its axis. Kinsey, frustrated at not having enough statistical material for his lectures, began collecting his own data by surveying students in the marriage class. Finding that data insufficient, he distributed questionnaires to students and the faculty at large. Finally, relying on the help of a legion of colleagues, research assistants, and graduate students, Kinsey began surveying anyone who would consent to be interviewed, ultimately collecting data on 18,000 people. With funds from the National Research Council's Committee for Research in the Problems of Sex (underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation), Kinsey stopped teaching and devoted himself full-time to his survey, founding the Institute for Sex Research in 1947.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which became known as the Kinsey report, dropped like an 800-page bomb into American culture in 1948. No one-certainly not Kinsey or his publisher, who brought out a first printing of only 5,000 copies-expected the reaction it elicited. Rocketing to the top of the bestseller list, where it stayed for 27 weeks, the report introduced facts and statistics into America's dinner table conversations that dramatically altered perception of sexual behavior in America. The statistics shocked and scandalized: 86 percent of men said they had engaged in premarital sex; 50 percent said they had committed adultery before turning 40; 37 percent of men reported at least one episode of homosexual sex; and 17 percent of men who had grown up on farms claimed to have had sex with animals. The Kinsey report blew the lid off the container in which sexual experience had been sealed. Sexual activity previously labeled "deviant" or "immoral" seemed rampant among the very people who outwardly condemned it.
One of Kinsey's explicit goals in publishing the report was to export discussion of sexual practices from the realm of morality to that of science. In a scientific context, whatever the surveys found was "natural" and whatever was "natural" was "normal" and whatever was "normal" was morally okay. In other words, he sought to demolish "normal" as a meaningful category of sexual behavior.
Whatever the moral interpretation . . . there is no scientific reason for considering particular types of sexual activity as intrinsically, in their biological origins, normal or abnormal. . . . Present-day legal determination of sexual acts which are acceptable, or "natural," and those which are "contrary to nature" are not based on data obtained from biologists, nor from nature herself.
Because previous study of sexual behavior had been little more than "a rationalization of the mores masquerading under the guise of objective science," the report aimed, in the words of its authors, to accumulate "scientific fact divorced from questions of moral value and social custom."
But despite its claims to separate sex from morality by inoculating it with science, what the Kinsey group managed to do was pretty much the opposite-to reify science as morality. Sex, one of the areas of life most laden with taboos, myths, and rules in every society, had historically been governed by traditional cultural authorities-religion, folklore, literature, law. The Kinsey report solidified science's role as the new, preeminent cultural authority. And Kinsey's version of the Word of Science was that, sexually speaking, anything goes. Whatever he found in his survey-and he found great quantities of adultery, homosexual sex, oral sex, prostitution, bondage, and bestiality-was by definition acceptable. Our moral values needed to be brought more scientifically in line with our sexual practices-and the sexual goal of society, the Kinsey report implied, was to maximize the number of orgasms per week. The sexual revolution, though it owed much to interpretations (and misinterpretations) of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich, found its intellectual underpinnings here.
Kinsey's methodology was badly flawed. Many of his respondents were simply the most eager volunteers; his statistical sample, while large, was hardly representative of the larger population. Thus the numbers he published in his reports were very likely grossly inflated. But this hardly mattered. Conservative critics attacked him on their terms, not his. It was not the specific quantities of "immoral" sexual activity reported by Kinsey that riled them; rather it was the report's attempt to use an implicitly moralizing social science to justify an anything-goes sexual ethos. "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America," declared the evangelist Billy Graham when the Kinsey report's companion volume, Sexual Behavior in the American Female, came out in 1953. Tennessee Congressman Carroll Reece formed a committee to investigate foundation support of "un-American activities," targeting in particular the Rockefeller Foundation's funding of the Kinsey Institute.
From the Kinsey reports onward, this constant tension between permissiveness and restraint, between old cultural authorities and new ones, led to a growing moral bewilderment. What was right? Nobody knew anymore. The sexual revolution and its aftermath caused this tension to intensify. A 1977 Time poll found that 61 percent of Americans believed it was harder and harder to tell sexual right from wrong than in the past. And the most striking feature of the 1993 Janus Report on Sexual Behavior was the increase in uncertainty between its two polling periods. "For most items . . . the no opinion responses in Phase Two [1988-1992] were two to three times what they had been in Phase One [1983-1985]. We observed significantly less firm opinion and more irresolution in the second phase sample than in the first." Perhaps the most confusing thing was that "science," deployed by Kinsey to establish what Lionel Trilling called a "democratic pluralism of sexuality," was now, in the age of herpes and AIDS, fused to moral arguments for monogamy and restraint. The Age of Aquarius turned into the Age of Confusion.
After the Morning After
Katie Roiphe is nothing if not confused; hence she is well qualified to comment on our postrevolutionary era. As the subtitle of her new book implies, Roiphe's Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End undertakes to examine the contemporary American social setting in which the moral and social consequences of certain romantic acts have been replaced by technical and medical ones. Fears about committing a sin, about being ostracized, about experiencing shame no longer have resonance for many people, argues Roiphe; what really scares people today are things like having to get an abortion, contracting herpes, or dying of AIDS.
Technical limitations to sexual freedom have begun to take on the character of moral strictures. AIDS especially-the scourge in particular of drug takers and male homosexuals-has become swollen with moral force, as social and moral understandings of what's acceptable sexual behavior have been collapsed into medical ones. America, Roiphe writes, "embraced the AIDS epidemic-not the terrible disease itself, but, in its abstract form, the idea of sexual peril" because it was "an actual crisis to give form and meaning to our free-floating doubts about sexual freedom."
The 1993 publication of her first book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism, propelled Roiphe, then a 25-year-old graduate student in English literature at Princeton, to minor cultural celebrityhood. In that book Roiphe, prefiguring her arguments about AIDS in Last Night in Paradise, argued that the lobby against date rape was symptomatic of a more general anxiety about sex, an unwillingness to accept the idea that sex needn't always have consequences. Her most controversial position was that many instances of what campus fashion had determined was "date rape" were actually just bad sex-she knew, she said, because she'd had plenty of it herself. "The crisis is not a rape crisis," she wrote, "but a crisis in sexual identity."
In the initial flush of media attention, Roiphe was hailed as a new voice in feminism, a welcome corrective to politically correct sexual repressiveness. But in the subsequent caricature that emerged from the negative backlash, Roiphe became a young Camille Paglia, a neoconservative, neofeminist provocateur who made up in glibness and flamboyance what she lacked in logic and accuracy. Katha Pollit's brutal dissection of The Morning After in the New Yorker in October 1993 pretty well demolished any claim the book had to being a responsible intellectual project.
Unfortunately, no doubt urged on by her agent and publisher, Roiphe has chosen to continue this project in Last Night in Paradise. But this book comes by its intellectual confusion honestly: Roiphe freely admits her ambivalence, which may be the book's greatest strength. Roiphe can't decide whether she'd like still fewer rules or more of them. On balance, Roiphe seems to favor fewer rules, more wildness; beneath her analysis lies an implicit plea for joie de vivre, for recklessness, for abandon. Yet her longing for freedom and romance is tempered by a troubled reckoning of the consequences of so much freedom, so much fun. "We have no popularly accepted moral attitude about sexuality that can be passed down from one generation to the next. . . . Without God, without rigid rules of social class, we have no material out of which to form new values."
Despite its serious analytical weaknesses, this is in some ways a sympathetic book. In seizing on our confused attempts to replace "old-fashioned morality" with "some new technical, institutional code" for sexual behavior, Roiphe is definitely onto something. She is right, for example, to point out that our "gentle moral relativism"-which accepts legal abortion, birth control, same-sex marriages, and so on as no big deal-brings out a "vestigial need for strong social codes, for judgment, context, and tradition." And she is still right when she explains further that what most inspires nostalgia for a weakly defined "old-fashioned morality" is an unwillingness to tolerate the ambiguities, complexities, and desires of the individual. Struggling to find a comfortable middle ground between a nostalgically embellished "old-fashioned morality" and a similarly glorified sexual freedom, it is unsurprising that many people would feel the need for order, restraint, and rules.
The Girls Strike Back
Or for the Rules. In 1995, Warner Books published one of those advice-for-the-lovelorn pop-psychology books that line the self-help shelves of bookstores. Sales of The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right, by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, chugged along modestly for a few months. Then the authors went on Oprah. All of a sudden, the Rules were everywhere. In 1996, the book reached the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Articles about the Rules started appearing everywhere from Cosmopolitan and Glamour to the New Republic and the New Yorker. The authors started offering phone consulting-at $250 an hour. My copy of the paperback even comes with an application form for a Rules seminar.
The Rules consists of 35 simple precepts such as "Don't Talk to a Man First," "Don't Accept a Saturday Night Date After Wednesday," "Let Him Take the Lead," and "No More than Casual Kissing on the First Date," arranged in rule-per-chapter sequence. "The purpose of the Rules is to make Mr. Right obsessed with you. . . . What we're promising you is 'happily-ever-after.' " The Rules amount, in aggregate, to a recommendation of playing "hard to get"-and to a rolling back of women's liberation by maybe 40 years. A "Rules Girl," according to Fein and Schneider, doesn't put out. She also never tells a man what to do, always lets him be in control, and doesn't let her children (from a previous marriage) become an intrusive presence in the relationship. "In a relationship, the man must take charge. . . . We are not making this up-biologically, he's the aggressor." No wonder Katie Roiphe is still single.
The Rules no doubt taps eternal fears about spinsterhood, but its commercial success can be largely attributed to a neat intersection with the zeitgeist. The Rules may be inane (they recommend studying the mawkish film Love Story like the Bible), but they appeal smartly to an American society that won the sexual revolution-and then realized the spoils of victory were not all they were cracked up to be.
Modern women aren't to talk loudly about wanting to get married. We had grown up dreaming about being the president of the company, not the wife of the president. . . . Still, we had to face it: as much as we loved being powerful in business, for most of us, that just wasn't enough. . . . We didn't want to give up our liberation, but neither did we want to come home to empty apartments. Who said we couldn't have it all?
This weirdly inverts the yearnings of 1950s housewives, for whom family and laundry were not enough. The question is a good, forward-looking one-why can't women have it all?-but the solution Fein and Schneider provide is retrograde.
Kinsey and the sexual revolution that followed him erased all the rules of romantic relations; the Rules, which the authors describe as "a simple working set of behaviors and reactions," put them back. The authors use a typical combination of pop science, fear mongering, practicality, and moral cajoling to urge sexual restraint. "Never get in a car with a man you meet at a party," they tell us, because "you might end up in his trunk." "Forget all the 'free love' theories from the swinging sixties," they tell us, summarily discarding the sexual revolution. It's not "cool to have an unwanted pregnancy or a disease."
Sexual Ecology
The sexual counterrevolution is not limited to pabulum like the Rules. The most vitriolic backlash is reserved for gay men, who were in many ways both the primary catalysts and short-term beneficiaries of the sexual revolution-and who have also suffered far more than anyone else its costs. Gabriel Rotello's Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men argues that it was radical changes in the sexual behavior of homosexual American men that led to a large, sudden increase in the prevalence of STDs among the gay and bisexual population. AIDS, it should be made clear, is not a "gay" disease-outside of the United States, 90 percent of its victims are heterosexual. But the new intensity and variety of sexual activity among homosexual males during the sexual revolution generated an environment in which diseases previously "held in check" could thrive. The gay New York bathhouses of the 1970s made possible licentiousness on a positively Roman scale. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the first few hundred gay men with AIDS had an average of 1,100 (!) lifetime sexual partners. Rotello, who is gay, makes the argument that, contrary to what many in the gay political community like to believe, the AIDS epidemic wasn't something that "just happened." The sexual revolution caused it.
Given the facts, this seems an obvious point, and an important one to acknowledge. But whether by ignorance or design, many people-gays and liberals in particular-don't accept it. To do so, they believe, would be playing into the moralist rhetoric of fundamentalist conservatives like Falwell and Pat Buchanan, for whom AIDS is a punishment visited by God upon the sexually deviant. "The poor homosexuals," Buchanan sneers. "They have declared war on Nature, and now Nature is exacting an awful retribution." AIDS confers such a moral stigma because conservatives have-incorrectly-managed to connect AIDS to homosexuality, which they consider intrinsically immoral, rather than to the specific behavior patterns in the sixties and seventies that in the United States made gays the focal point of the epidemic.
Rotello, like Kinsey, tries explicitly to distance himself from any moral claims ("So let me say simply at the outset that what I describe below are biological, not moral, events") in making his epidemiological arguments advocating sexual restraint and safe sex. But Rotello's book effectively-if unintentionally-illustrates that science, pragmatism, and morality are clearly interwoven in ways that resist untangling. Morality and public health are both concerned to protect and enhance the commonweal. But both can also be used to ostracize and deny rights-and they do so most effectively when they are mixed together.
It's Over! No, It's Not!
The sexual revolution is such a contentious topic that even ostensibly objective social science gets tinged with the ideological predispositions of researchers. Though the data are now 50 years old, and though most experts believe its findings of sexual activity to be grossly inflated, the Kinsey reports remained the standard source for information about sexual activity until at least 1994. Various academic studies contradicted aspects of Kinsey's findings, but these studies were of much narrower scope. And broad studies of society that captured some data about sex, such as the General Social Survey (GSS), found quantities and varieties of sexual activity much lower than what Kinsey found. Would-be exegetes of the sexual revolution and its aftermath were left with a morass of conflicting and outdated information.
In 1993, Cynthia and Samuel Janus tried to rectify this situation, publishing The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior, for which they collected data between 1983 and 1992. Their findings only made things more confusing: They were unable to determine whether they were witnessing a backlash against the sexual revolution or a continuation of it. On the one hand the AIDS epidemic had made people claim to be more cautious about sex. On the other hand, they were having more sex with more people-especially among the most at-risk groups. Sixty-two percent of young men and 66 percent of young women reported that their sexual activity increased compared to three years earlier. Serious decline in sexual activity was shown by only 5 percent of the men and 9 percent of the women in the youngest group. Moreover, 24 percent of men and 20 percent of women reported "much more" sexual activity than three years earlier, and 44 percent of men and 41 percent of women reported "more" sexual activity. All told, 73 percent of men and 68 percent of women reported having the same or more sex in 1988-1992 than in 1985-1988.
Confronted with the conflicting data, the Januses weakly hedged their bets. This increase in sexual activity was, they said, the "Second Sexual Revolution." "The enormous tensions and backlash generated by these devastating sexually transmitted diseases made the practice of casual sex pause; from this hesitation, and the reaction to it, came the beginning of the Second Sexual Revolution." In other words, there was the revolution. Then there was the backlash against the revolution. Then there was the backlash against the backlash against the revolution. No wonder everyone is so confused.
T he Janus report was based on a statistical sample of only 2,795, and many of the older respondents were found at sex-therapy clinics-so there is good reason to believe that many of their estimations of activity, like Kinsey's, are greatly overstated. But the following year another study appeared. Billed as the most comprehensive survey since Kinsey's, the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), popularly published as Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, dropped into American culture in 1994 like the original Kinsey report had nearly a half century earlier. Only while the Kinsey report had titillated and horrified with its previously unimaginable picture of sexual variety in the United States, Sex in America did quite the opposite.
What happened to the sexual revolution? Sex in America seemed to provide clear evidence that it was dead and gone, swept away by AIDS and a revival of sturdy family values. Some findings from its random sampling of 3,432 subjects: 94 percent of Americans were faithful to their spouses (up from around 60 percent in the Kinsey, Janus, and other surveys); only 33 percent of Americans had sex twice or more per week; the median number of lifetime sex partners for women was two, for men six. One of its more telling findings was that married people had the most sex, single people the next most, and divorced people the least. "The more partners you have," the report's authors wrote, "the more time you are going to spend finding and wooing them-time that a married couple could be having sex." In other words, if you like sex it doesn't pay to be a swinging single. Instead, get married and stay married. Our findings, the authors wrote, "often directly contradict what has become the conventional wisdom about sex. They are counterrevolutionary findings, showing a country . . . that, on the whole, is much less sexually active than we have come to believe."
Some found the study's conclusions dubious and its methodology biased, arguing that the opposition of politicians like Senator Jesse Helms-who in 1987 had blocked congressional funding for the study (and all sex surveys), forcing the researchers to apply for foundation money-had conservatized its results. John Heidenry, for example, writes in What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution that the Sex in America survey was "the logical culmination of the new and improved puritanism of the United States, dressed out in the guise of objective science." This is precisely the opposite of what critics of the Kinsey report had said: that its "objective science" gave moral license to sexually deviant practices. And while Kinsey had set out to abolish the whole concept of "normal"-or moral-sexuality, the NHSLS authors strove explicitly to preserve moral norms by warning that, "Of course, a survey cannot tell us what is normal, only what is frequent."
While the NHSLS's conclusions about sexual activity were generally much more conservative than the Janus report's, there were places where Janus's findings supported theirs. Though the NHSLS found that most young people did not have large numbers of sexual partners (more than 50 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds had just one partner in 1992), it also found that "the very sexually active people in the population, who are most at risk of being infected with HIV, did not seem to have been slowed by fears of AIDS." For example, 8.7 percent of people ages 25 to 29 claimed to have had 21 or more partners since age 18; 11.5 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds claimed to have had that many. The authors point out that if fear of AIDS had affected sexual activity, the highly promiscuous proportion of the younger group, who came of age after the explosion of AIDS, ought to have been much lower than it was relative to the older group.
B ut the most recent sex studies tell a more heartening story. On May 1, 1997, the National Survey of Family Growth, a government survey conducted every five years, released its most recent data, collected during 1995: The data showed that, for the first time since 1970, the percentage of teenagers having sex had declined. The percentage of girls aged 15 to 19 having sex declined from 55 to 50 between 1990 and 1995 (the number of married teenagers is so small these days, that even if marital sex is excluded, the percentage of girls having sex in 1995 falls by only 2 percent); and 55 percent of teenage boys had sex in 1995, down from 60 percent in 1988. Conservatives, no doubt, will take this as evidence that the sexual counterrevolution is, albeit slowly, taking hold. (And many adults think it should be taking hold faster; a March 1997 survey found that 95 percent of people surveyed believe teens should be completely abstinent.) But while something of a conservative sexual counterrevolution may finally be trickling down to younger Americans, the most encouraging data vindicate liberal sex-education policies: Condom use among young women has risen sharply, from 18 percent in the 1970s to 36 percent in the 1980s to 54 percent in 1995; in 1995, 91 percent of women said they had been taught safe-sex methods of preventing AIDS transmission. If condom use is up while sexual activity is down, then the conservative argument that sex education and contraception availability increase "immoral" and dangerous promiscuity looks less credible.
Who Won the Sexual Revolution?
"Uninhibited sex," writes the conservative political scientist Harvey Mansfield in Reassessing the Sixties, "received a rude shock from the emergence of AIDS. Perhaps you should listen more carefully to the vague menaces of your mother . . . about what happens to people who do funny things for sex." Well, perhaps that's true-to a point. But then Mansfield continues. "Since the sixties, feminine modesty has reasserted itself, though partly in the guise of feminism. There are now plenty of nice girls . . . but they are confused, apologetic, and unsupported by social norms. What they get for advice is 'safe sex.' "
Mansfield's tone-with his derisive "under the guise of feminism" and his patronizing "nice girls"-gives away the conservative game here. What conservatives like Mansfield want is less a curb on sexual excess than a rolling back of the political gains that women (and gays) have won under the auspices of the sexual revolution. It is difficult, of course, to tie victories in the political and social realms directly to victories in the sexual realm-maybe a right to sexual assertiveness is directly linked to a right to political assertiveness and maybe it isn't. But at the very least the sexual revolution for women was bound up in the larger revolutionary changes of the period that led to an improvement in their social status. You can't have the one without the other. Conservatives like Mansfield and Falwell would like to erase both.
Mansfield's strategy for achieving this erasure is typical. In fact, it's roughly what The Rules does. First, point out that sexual liberation had a tangible, "science"-based cost: AIDS and other STDs. Next, cast the net more widely so that if sexual liberation was associated with women's liberation, for example, and sexual liberation caused AIDS, then women's liberation caused AIDS. All forms of liberation and political change connected to the sixties and seventies get implicated in this way. Women's rights, gay rights, a woman's right to choose, and the freedom to do what you like in the privacy of your own bedroom all get thrown out the window with the bathwater.
In 1885, the prestigious British scientific journal the Lancet published an article arguing that the best method for protecting the young against STDs was the "cultivation of purity"-was "purity" a scientific concept or a moral one? The ambiguous rhetoric of "purity," neither clearly scientific nor clearly moral, is what for so many years has enabled traditional conservatives to extract from biology and epidemiology moral messages that are broader than the science merits.
The sexual revolution eliminated some hypocrisy. Those who trace the ruination of society to the breakdown of sexual morality forget that the old sexual morality was honored in the breach as often as not. Sure, in 1960 colleges had curfews and sexually segregated dorms. But remember that even then-no matter if Kinsey significantly overstated things-when the curfew bell rang, the campus shrubbery would quiver as young men and women emerged frantically pulling up their pants and smoothing down their dresses, ready to run back to their single-sex dorms. Failing to acknowledge this, the anti-fornication crusaders are either dishonest (Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker) or totally lacking in self-awareness (Robert Bork). In Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, Bork writes:
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately. . . . I watched for some time-riveted by the sociological significance of it all.
The sociological significance? Right. If Bork had been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, we can guess the Court might have taken a lot more pornography cases for careful review.
T he sexual revolution may not, in an important sense, have been worth its costs. Most gay men, the group most galvanized by the sexual revolution, would not say that the considerable political gains and social acceptance they've won over the last few years was worth human losses now numbering in the hundreds of thousands. But they would not want to give up those political gains and social acceptance. The Terror did not nullify all that the French Revolution achieved. Similarly, the ravages of AIDS do not mean that we should now abandon the liberal advances won by the sexual revolution. Less sexually wanton, yes; safer sex, yes; but we should not give in to rhetorical appeals for an oppressive new puritanism.
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Kuo-ch'ing Tu (Chinese: 杜國清; pinyin: Du Guoqing; born 1941) is a poet, scholar, translator, critic, and professor. He is a Professor Emeritus in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he held the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair from its establishment in 2003 until his retirement in 2020. He was also founder and director of the Center for Taiwan Studies. In 1996, he founded the biannual journal Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series《台灣文學英譯叢刊, and remains its editor.

Life
Tu was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1941. He graduated from National Taiwan University in 1963 with an English Literature degree and earned a Master of Arts in Japanese literature from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1970. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford University in 1974. His research interests have included Taiwanese Literature, Chinese literature, Chinese literary theories, comparative literature, and international literatures in Chinese.

As a literary scholar, he has several volumes of collected essays and one monograph in English, a study of the Tang dynasty poet, Li He, based on his Ph.D. dissertation. Tu's reputation as a translator was established in the 1960s and 70s with his renderings of Modernist verse and literary theory, particularly the work of T. S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire. His translation of Les Fleurs du Mal remains a standard reference in the Chinese-speaking world. He has also introduced James J. Y. Liu's English language studies of Chinese poetics by translating them into Chinese. Among contemporary Chinese-language poets, Tu Kuo-ch'ing is considered one of the most daring and honest with regard to matters of love and Eros, however his poetic oeuvre is highly diverse and his influence has not been limited to the expression of love with passion.

Tu Kuo-ch'ing has published twenty-five collections of poetry, including editions published in Japan, China, and Korea. In his largest anthology, Light Shines Through the World of Dust, Illuminating the Myriad Objects光射塵方,圓照萬象 (2017), the verses are divided into three major categories and a total of eleven subcategories. The first major category "The Substance of Things" 體物篇carries on the long tradition of exposition on the nature of  "things" or "objects in Chinese poetry. "Substance of Things" poems also find resonance in the "New Objectivity" school of Modernism which advocates for artistic engagement with the realities of life rather than with emotions or purely aesthetic experience.

A second major mode of poetic expression is what Tu refers to as "Following Emotions" 緣情. This term derives from the classical expression "following the emotions to depict a scene" 緣情寫景 and implies that the poet feels emotions which are then projected unto external objects or scenery. Tu's verse in this mode relate to places from his youth or that he has visited, especially in his extensive travels in Taiwan, China, Japan and North America. He also includes pieces composed in response to events in his life, or in the current news. Most notably, however, Tu considers that his extensive list of love-related verse belongs in this category.

Tu also makes use of verse as a medium of academic discourse. He gathers such work under the general heading of "Poetic Art" 詩藝篇. These works tend to be more intellectual than emotional. They include explorations of mythology, history and psychology as well as matters of more purely academic interest, such as poetics and literary theory.

Tu Kuo-ch'ing has made a substantial contribution to poetic theory and practice by combining Eastern traditions with Western Modernist notions. His familiarity with T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire inclined Tu towards the principles of Western Modernism. At the same time, he followed the lead of Japanese Modernist Nishiwaki Junzaburo in fusing European aesthetics with Eastern religious philosophy, especially the mysticism of Huayan (Flower Garland) Buddhism. Tu's familiarity with classical Chinese poetics, especially the work of medieval literary theorist, Liu Xie 劉勰, author of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 文心雕龍, allowed him to connect basic compositional devices such as the use of metaphor and symbolism with the long tradition of Chinese language verse. In these various ways, Tu Kuo-ch'ing's verse and criticism have played a central role in defining Modernist poetics in the post-WWII Chinese speaking world.

He continues to co-edit Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, and other CTS publications.

Tu retired in 2021 and was appointed Professor Emeritus.

Works

Collections of poems and essays
Wa ming ji [Voices of Frogs]. Taipei: Modern Literature Magazine, 1963.
Dao yu hu [The Isle and the Lake]. Taipei: Li Poetry Society, 1965.
Xuebeng [Avalanche]. Taipei: Li Poetry Society, 1972.
Yi ying ji [Collected Poems Echoing Chen Ch'ien Wu: Images of a Youthful Woman]. Taipei: Li Poetry Society, 1974.
Wang yue [Gazing at the Moon]. Taipei: Taiwan Elite Books, 1978.
Li He [Li Ho] (Twayne's World Authors Series). Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.
Xixie Shunsanlang de shi yu shixue [Nishiwaki Junzaburō's Poetry and Poetics]. Kaohsiung: Chunhui chubanshe, 1980.
Xin yun ji [Heart-Cloud Collection]. Taipei: China Times Publishing Company, 1983.
Xun mei de youhun [A Tormented Soul Martyred for Beauty]. Taipei: Li Poetry Society, 1986.
Qingjie ji [A Lover's Doom: A Collection]. Taipei: Li Poetry Society, 1990.
Qingjie [A Lover's Doom]. Beijing: China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company, 1991.
Du Guoqing zuopin xuanji [Selected Works of Du Guoqing]. Taichung: Taichung Cultural Center, 1991.
Wuwangcao [Forget-me-not]. Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1992.
Dui wo, ni shi weixian de cunzai [To Me, You Are a Dangerous Existence]. Beijing: China Wenlian Publishing Company, 1996.
Ai ran wu meng [Love Imbued with Desire: Five Dreams]. Taipei: Guiguan Publishing Company, 1999.
Yu yan ji: Jinse wuduan wushi xian [Jade Smoke Collection: Fifty Variations on Li Shangyin's Songs of the Ornamented Zither]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2009.
Shan he lüe ying [A Sweeping View of China's Mountains and Rivers]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2009.
Taiwan shiren xuanji: Du Guoqing ji [Selected Works of Taiwan Poets: Tu Kuo-ch'ing]. Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan Literature, 2010.
Shilun • shiping • shilun shi [Poetics, Poetic Critiques, and Poems of Poetics]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2010.
Xila shenxuanqu [Lyrics on Greek Mythology]. Seoul: Baum Communications, 2014.
Taiwan wenxue yu shihua wenxue [Taiwan Literature and World Literatures of Chinese]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2015.
Guang she chen fang • yuan zhao wanxiang: Du Guoqing de shiqing shijie [Radiance Penetrates the Dusty Realm, Illuminating All Phenomenon: The Poetic World of Tu Kuo-ch'ing]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2017.

Collected essays
Tui chuang wang yue: Du Guoqing sanwen ji [Pushing Open the Window, Gazing at the Moon: Du Guoqing's Prose Collection]. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2019.

Translations in Chinese
Ai Lüete wenxue pinglun xuanji [Collected Essays of T. S. Eliot]. Taipei: Taiwan Tianyuan Book Company, 1969.
Shixue [Poetics], by Nishiwaki Junzaburō. Taipei: Taiwan Tianyuan Book Company, 1969.
Riben xiandaishi jianshang [Appreciation of Modern Japanese Poetry]. Taipei: Issues #41-58, Li Poetry Magazine, February 1971-December 1973.
Shi de xiaoyong yu piping de xiaoyong [The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism], by T. S. Eliot. Taipei: Pure Literature Publishing Company, 1972.
E zhi hua [Flowers of Evil], by Baudelaire. Taipei: Pure Literature Publishing Company, 1977.
Zhongguo shixue [The Art of Chinese Poetry], by James J. Y. Liu. Taipei: Youshi wenhua shiye chuban gongsi, 1977.
E zhi hua [Flowers of Evil], by Baudelaire. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2011.
Zhongguo wenxue lilun [Chinese Theories of Literature], by James J. Y. Liu. Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, 1981.
Mi Luoshu shixuan [Selected Poems of Czesław Miłosz]. Taipei: Vista Publishing Company, 1982.
Zhongguo wenxue lilun [Chinese Theories of Literature], by James J. Y. Liu. Jiangsu: Jiangsu Education Press, 2006.

Translations in Korean
Wangxiang [Nostalgia], 100 poems by Kuo-ch'ing Tu translated into Korean by Kim Sang-Ho. Seoul: Baum Communications, 2014.

Translations in Japanese

 Girisha shingenkyoku [The Greek Divine Lyrics], 64 poems translated into Japanese by Sadako Ikegami. Tokyo: Shichōsha, 2011.

Studies on Kuo-ch'ing Tu's works
Xunmei de lüren: Du Guoqing lun [A Traveler in Search of Beauty: A Study of Du Guoqing], by Wang Jingshou, Bai Shurong, Yang Zhengli. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1994.
Ai de mitu: Du Guoqing qingshi lun [The Secret Map of Love: A Study of Du Guoqing's Love Poems], by Wang Zongfa, Ji Birui, and Wang Jingshou. Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe, 1994.
Zuoye xingchen zuoye feng: yu yan ji zonglun [The Stars and Wind of Last Night: A Comprehensive Study on the Jade Smoke Collection], by Wang Zongfa. Anhui: Anhui University Press, 1998.
Xunmei de lüren—Du Guoqing lun [A Traveler in Search of Beauty: A Study of Du Guoqing], by Wang Jingshou, Bai Shurong, Yang Zhengli. Taipei: Guiguan Publishing Company, 1999.
Ai de mitu: Du Guoqing qingshi lun [The Secret Map of Love: A Study of Du Guoqing's Love Poems], by Wang Zongfa, Ji Birui, and Wang Jingshou. Taipei: Guiguan Publishing Company, 1999.
Aiyu bo yang de shi jiao liliang—shilun Du Guoqing qingshi ji "airanwumeng" [The Poetic Effect of Eros Rising: On the Erotic Writing in Tu Kuo-ch'ing's Love Imbued with Desire: Five Dreams], translated by John Balcom. Taipei: Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University Press, 2017.
"Ke" cong hechu lai?—lun Du Guoqing "Shan he lüe ying" li de kuaguo jingyan yu wenhua ganhuai [Where Does the "Visitor" Come from? – On the Multinational Experience and Cultural Memory in Tu Kuo-ch'ing's Glimpses of Mountains and Rivers], translated by Ivan Yung-chieh Chiang. National Taiwan University Press, 2018.
Du Guoqing "yi shi lunshi" de shixue guandian [The Poetics of Tu Kuo-ch'ing's "Poems about Poetry"], translated by John Balcom, National Taiwan University Press, 2019.
Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series: Special Issue on Tu Kuo-ch'ing (台灣文學英譯叢刊,杜國清專輯), edited by Terence Russell,#44,July 2019.
"Introduction to the Special Issue on Tu Kuo-ch'ing" by Terence Russell in Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series: Special Issue on Tu Kuo-ch'ing, edited by Terence Russell, #44,July 2019. Pp.xvii-xxvi.

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Speaking after hitting his second half-century in Aldar Properties Abu Dhabi T10, Morgan said on Tuesday: "I love this format. I think it has an X factor. It offers something unique and the fact that a competition can be played in full with eight to 10 teams, in the space of 12 days means it has the potential for Commonwealth Games or the Olympics, if it goes through the right channels.
"It is enjoyable but it sells the game really well. As an entertainment package, it is great value. You can come and watch three games in one day and you can watch four or five of the world's best players in different teams. You don't get that in any other format.
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