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by dal mcintire

The late Dr. Kinsey's INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH has just won their 7-yr fight over Customs' Dept. seizure of a shipment of sexual symbols and literature from abroad. A federal judge ruled that work of serious scholars need not be impeded by customs barriers....

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VIM's snide feuding with other muscle mags gets downright bitchy at times. Recently when PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL editorially saluted its sister magazine, Strength Health, on Her Twenty-Fifth Anniversary," pintsize VIM sniffed, "... the 'sister' relationship might be disputed as PP is much younger. Perhaps the editorial might better have been labelled 'Tribute to an Old Aunt.' PP lauded S&H as 'one of the first books to carry beautiful pictures of male semi-nudes' and also for its publication for many years of the Strength and Health Leaguers' column, which "allowed 'lonely bodybuilders and others' to form 'fruitful friendships." During the war years, the Leaguers column carried 'blanket invitations' from Leaguers who would open their homes to servicemen.'

Several of these beefcake mags touch frequently on sexual themes. PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL is one of the few that avoid the prissy, near-Victorian approach. Some, including

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S&H, try to give the impression their publishers would drop dead if they thought any homosexuals bought their mags to look at the pictures ...

Columnist in British weekly SPECTATOR was wondering what to call male nurses. "Sister" seems to be catchall word for male and female nurses. Since both nuns and monks worked in early hospitals-why not "brothers?" What male nurse likes being called "sister?" Indeed Among the current "Bloody Mary" jokes: "Mommy, can I have a new dress for Easter?' "Certainly not, George . . . WAC Lieutenant Jeanne Wolcott, displeased with the form of some WACS at Camp Kishine, Yokahama, issued drastic orders: "Some young ladies who are not too gifted in some ways were told to make improvements. For a few I suggested girdles. For others, padding for the shoulders and elsewhere. When a WAC isn't well endowed, the uniform has a tendency to dip in front of the shoulders. Padding at the shoulders will take the dip out. So will falsies.... Give me a man who is a man and woman should be a woman." After some downtown shopping the unit's morale was quickly "uplifted."

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