Sex issues.When I saw the August 15 Summer Sex Issue, I cringed inside and immediately thought of an old episode of Ellen where she asks a newsstand owner for the latest issue of The Advocate and he directs her to the pornography section. At the time I smiled and got the sad humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was of the common misconception mis·con·cep·tion n. A mistaken thought, idea, or notion; a misunderstanding: had many misconceptions about the new tax program. of your magazine, but now I'm not so sure ... "Sex with straight guys" and "hottest lesbian couple"? Covers and back-page ads with naked men posing or cavorting in groups? I sometimes wonder if magazines like The Advocate and shows like The L Word successfully reinforce those harmful, destructive stereotypes the religious right so strongly embrace! No wonder Jerry Falwell This article is about Jerry Falwell, Sr. For the article about his son, see Jerry Falwell, Jr. Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11 1933 – May 15, 2007)[1] was an American fundamentalist Christian pastor and televangelist. and his like aren't calling to complain. You and Showtime show·time or show time n. 1. The time at which an entertainment, such as the showing of a movie, is scheduled to start. 2. Slang The time at which an activity is to begin. Noun 1. are indirectly helping their cause. ANGLE ENGLES Columbia, Md. The Sex Issue has arrived, and once again only skinny people need apply. If you look really hard, page by page, you can find some regular body types, like the couple in the corner of page 28. A small photograph of two men wearing black shirts against a black background to make their bodies fully invisible. Even the drawings are of skinny people. Did it ever occur to those "dumped again" (page 36) that it might be severe anorexia anorexia /an·orex·ia/ (-rek´se-ah) lack or loss of appetite for food. anorexia nervo´sa driving their misery? The Advocate sadly parrots society's obsession with thinness and then gives that bias a big gay boost. And it pretends in its delusion delusion, false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. to be a magazine of inclusion. ERIC A. CHRISTENSON Bradenton, Fla, Your Summer Sex Issue was very strange. The people featured in it seem to inhabit a world in which no one is over the age of 29. It's a twink world from which aging has been banished. Those of us who have managed to survive to 50? The only references to us I can find in the issue are on page 35 (an obscure actress from the old Ed Sullivan Show) and page 30, where a disappointed 22-year-old ascribes his bad online karma to "some old pervert preying on children and teenagers." I know, this was the sex issue, and no one over 30 should have sex--and if they do, no one under 30 wants to think about it. Earth to The Advocate: Grow up. JAMES GERARDI Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe (grōs point), name referring to five residential suburbs of Detroit, Wayne co., SE Mich. They include the city of Grosse Pointe (1990 pop. 5,681), inc. 1879; Grosse Pointe Farms, city (1990 pop. 10,092), inc. 1893, on Lake St. , Mich. |
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