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Body and Mind

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Sweet Suicide

Confuse love and romance too long and you end up a suicide. Aloneness is the final, undeniable reality of life.

By Sy Safransky March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

What Shall God Fear?

I have wanted you, wanted you, out of what? love? need? true love is not possessive, jealousy is a learned response, but oh god, how to let go? how to love you, not own you, how to let you be?

By Sy Safransky March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

[Warm fantasies are easy to weave]

Warm fantasies are easy to weave on this pleasant, sunny day. I look into people’s faces as if well acquainted with their pain and joy.

By Rob Diamant March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Fantasy

At 13, it seemed so confusing. I had to check out the symptoms in the “Facts of Love and Life” — quickening pulse, heavy breathing. What a thrill to know that I had turned someone on. And the fantasy of potency, marking good night kisses on the calendar.

By Judith March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Orally Yours

Ah yes, thinking back of the turbulent history of mouths and fingers, mouths and toes, not only makes my mouth water, but my toes as well. Toes and fingers, once thought to be good only for the production of hangnails, are enjoying an erogenous zone revival, especially when coupled with the inside of one’s mouth.

By Bill Huntley March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Sexuality

Many people suffer physically and emotionally from the dearth of honest, objective information about human sexuality. We are told: Sex is everywhere. Enjoy it.

By Dusty Staub March 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Communicating

Lack of communication is the single greatest factor in the destruction of relationships. Often there are crossed patterns of communication, with one partner speaking past the other instead of to him.

By Dusty Staub March 1974
Poetry

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I remember carved phrases in the air

By Jeff Katz February 1974
Poetry

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And I shall set aside the want ads

By Sy Safransky February 1974