(Sundoy; October '21, 1973

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, October 21, 1973THE MICHIGAN DAILY

_PERSPECTIVE

FANTASIES

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By BOB BARKIN
PEEKED INTO the window
of the Fourth Avenue porn
shop. There doors were closed
because, as it was Sunday, the
store's clientele were in church.
But the samples in the window
were enough to set off my imag-
ination . .
. . . When I walked into the
sex seminar, the nude bodies of
thirty men and women lay be-
fore me. "Come join us," she
said, holding out her arms to
embrace me. "We'll teach each
other." Slowly, smiling and beck-
oning, she removed my coat.
"Come on," she said. "This is
happiness." I took four steps
toward her, tears of joy in my
eyes ...
The honking car brought me
back to the reality of the situa-
tion. I was only a couple blocks
away from the hotel in which the
seminar on rational living was
being held.
The leaflet said that the fam-
ous psychologist Dr. Albert El-
lis would lead a seminar on sex
therapy for professionals in the
field. And I was given the as-
signment to cover the event !or
the Daily.
WITH THESE, sex seminars,
there is no way to know in ad-
vance what will be going on. The
programs for these get togeth-
ers vary: It could be an in-
structive lecture exploring the
nature of human relationships;
or it could feature live demon-
strations, the latest in eroticism,
writhing naked bodies. o I.
came equipped for a n y t h i n g
with my tape recorder and riny
best pair of glasses.
I entered the hotel where the
seminar was to be held.' I was
early and had time to kill so
I leaned against the lobby door,.
smoked a cigarette, and studies
the prostitutes who were plying
their trade
"Hey, good looking. Wanna
have a good time?" she purred.
She was wearing heavy make-
up but her smile was attractive
and I let her seduce me. "Come
on fella, I need some money to
pay the heating bills. My kid
sister is awfully sick."
I looked at her compassion-
ately, my e.yes brimming with
tears, knowing a young girl's life
lay on the line. "Let's go honey,"
I said. "Let's do it for your
sis." We.-walked upthe stas..
And once again I barely
averted disastersasthe fantasy
melted and the stairs came into
focus. The seminar was on the
third floor and I was no longer
early. Most people were already
seated, waiting for the speaker
to mount the lectern.
"I WOULD LIKE to introduce
to you Dr. Albert Ellis, a- re-
nowned expert on the field of sex
therapy. Dr. Ellis is the Director
of the Institute for Rational Liv-
ing in New York and has been
involved in sex research for 30
years. Here is Dr. Ellis."
The man was in his mid-fifties,
perhaps early sixties, He spoke
with a distinctly nasal N e w
York accent about his theory
that most sexual problems arise
from outside pressures - from
feelings of compulsion that one
has to "Perform well or be con-

'ne sex sem
sidered the biggest turd in the
world."
(What's a turd"?" asked the
psychologist sitting in frost of
me. "A feces," answered his
companion. The questioner nod-
ded silently.)
Ellis continues, "We have to
get over the idea that to fail in
sex is the worst thing in the
world and that if you fail you
are a nothing. We try to ...
. . . "Whiat's the matter, Har-
ry? Can't get it up again?" Her
face showed the pain of her hus.
bands failure in bed. They had
been happily married for years,
maybe a few problems here and
there, but this was the first real
crisis. "Oh, Harry, don't you love
me anymore?"
HIS EYES revealed the pain
in his heart. What if she tells
the bridge club. I'll never be
able to face them again . . .
I'm such a shmuck."
.What we try to da in
therapy is to try to anti-aw-
fullize, Ellis explained. Try to
show people that nothing less
than a slow, painful torture is 100
per cent bad. Then we try to
deal with their problems."
Ellis said that one way to deal
with problems is to let people
fantasize so that it will stuin-

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ulate their sexual appetite. "It
doesn't matter what the fantasy
is, as long as it doesn't h u r t
someone. Even mild forms of
masochism or sadism can be
okay as remedial measures until
a more permanent solution .
"Whip me, again and agai,"
he cried as she cracked h e r
whip over his head. "Make that
lash work, dig it into my body,"
he screamed as his -voice be-
came more passionate. "I think
I'm almost ready, about twq
more and I'm sure. But make
it hurt. I love pain . . . pain .
THE PAIN from my foot
the effect of its having folien
asleep was overwhelming. Bit
I shoot it off. Dr. Ellis was about
to come to his conclusion.
"If I had one wish, it woud
be to take the word 'must' out
of the English language. It's the
compulsion to do something,
that we "have to" rather than
"we would like to," that causes
many of our psychological prob-
lems today."
I clapped because the lecture
had been entertaining, but I was
in somewhat of a hurry to see
the Lion's game on television. "t
must see the opening kickotf," I
said to my neighbor. "I just
must."

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CHRIS MARKER'S
LI JOLI MAE

1962

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personal life both as interviewed and spontaneously caught by the camera. Part two explores the po-
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LOOKING BACK*

NEXT WEEKEND: Frank Capra's IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, Howard Hawks'
HIS GIRL FRIDAY, French Sunday FARREBIQUE

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

SGC Results
IF EVERY SGC ,candidate had
dragged two dozen friends,. to
the polls in last week's election
and those had been the only
voters, their number would have
surpassed the actual voter turn-
out.
Nobody seems to care about
SGC. That's why a record low
number of ballots-1308-was col-
lected last week, accounting for
less than four per cent of the
undergraduate population. And,
as if .to add insult to injury, a
fourth of the votes were invali-
dated because of improper com-
puter markings. Several Council
seats were stalemated in one-to-
one vote ties. No candidate re-
ceived more than 200 votes. That
figure is particularly galling in
light of the fact that it took
4,000 votes to win the top posi-
tions as recently as last year.
The middle-of-the-road Campus
Coalition emerged victorious in
the contest, taking 13 of the 39
available SGC seats. The party
apparently attracted the largest
number of votes only because it
ran the largest number of candi-
dates.
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Smith Quits
I WANT TO GO back to teach-
ing," lamented Vice President
for Academic Affairs Allan Smith
this week.
After 14 years in the adminis-
tration, Smith handed his walk-
ing papers to President Fleming
and expressed plans to head back
to the land of chalk boards, moot
courts and law books at the
University Law School.
Fleming, who made the an-

The Noble Nobel
THE S U N D A Y, MAGAZINE
wolild like to congratulate
Secretary of State Henry Kis-
singer for winning the 1973
Nobel Prize for Peace. It i5 coi-
mendable that a man who once
said that pacifists, "will be
c ri sthetd by those that are
strong," is now recognized as
one of the leading peacemakers
in the world. Good work llenr .
Money Blues
THE INSTITUTE for So: itJ
Research in a quarterly sur-
vey warns that an econom2 re-
cession by early 1974 is "quite
possible, perhaps even probabe."
The survey which was con-
ducted by ISR r e s e a r c h e r s
George Katona and Jay Sch-
miedeskamp pointed out that in
no time in the past 25 years has
consumer pessimism been so
low.
Only six per cent of those inter-
viewed felt that President Nix-
ons Phase IV economic program
would be succesful in holding
down the cost of living.
While we are all sitting around
moping about the monetary
blues, there may be a gleem of
sun peeking from out behind the
clouds in Ann Arbor.
The Human Rights Party is
WOMEN
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currently preparing an exten-
sive rent control amendment to
the city charter. If placed on the
ballot and approved the proposal
will roll back rents to the level
set prior to Auguist 1 of this
year. A rent control board would
regulate landlord profits to be-
t ween 6-16 per cent of the total
financial investment.
Before the proposal can be
placed on the city's ballot, HRP
must collect 3500 signatures of
support by Jan. 1.
Ozone Parade
THE OZONE came to ground
level last Friday, as the
"All Meal and No Potatoes" se-
cond annual Ozone Parade pranc-
ed and galloped through Ann Ar-
bor.
The parade presented its sur-
realistic theme with such sure-
fire crowd pleasers as the Liv-
ing Shish-ka-bob, and the Red
Cross abbatoir on wheels. As-
sorted luminaries and crazies,
includinf mime troupe members
and One String Sam, also partici-
pated in the festivities.
The Ozone Parade was con-
ceived two years ago, as a re-
placement for the deceased tra-
+ ditional homecoming parade.
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Allan Smith

nouncement public, called Smith
an "absolutely superb vice pres-
ident."
Other observers are less
complementary and characterize
Smith as the enemy of high-level
faculty groups as well as left
oriented students.
His most notable confrontation
was against the Program for
Educational and Social Change
(PESC) back in 1971. At the
time Smith forbade non-Univer-
sity students to attend PESC
classes.
Vice President for Student
Services Henry Johnson called
Smith, "an extremely fair per-
son . . . students are going to
find he wasn't the big bad boogie
man they thought."

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