4 Page 10-Wednesday, June 3, 1981-The Michigan Daily SENATE FILIBUSTER EXPECTED Reagan still backs Lefever From AP and UPI WASHINGTON-President Reagan remains a floor vote. whether the administration continued to support the determined to fight for confirmation of Ernest Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a Lefever supporter on nomination. Lefever as his human rights adviser despite war- the Foreign Relations Committee, said White House Baker said that during the White House meeting nings of a probable Senate filibuster aimed at representatives were telephoning senators as recen- earlier in the day he had "asked the president for fur- blocking the appointment, a White House spokesman tly as Monday urging support for the nomination. "I ther instructions" regarding the Lefever nomination. said yesterday. don't know of any intention to withdraw it," Helms He said Reagan did not respond immediately, but he Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker said he said. expected to hear from him before long. told the president at a leadership meeting that con- Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd told repor- He said the lack of an immediate response did not firmation would be a "tough fight" because he ters yesterday that he "probably" will vote against surprise him because the nomination was only one of probably will need the'three-fifths margin necessary the nomination because he is concerned about several topics dealt with in the meeting. "I told him to cut off a filibuster. Lefever's human rights philosophy and "the conflict that I was anxious to do as he wished," Baker said. ASKED WHETHER the administration still sup- of interest problem." AT THE WHITE House, deputy press secretary ports the nomination, Baker said, "As far as I know, VICE PRESIDENT George Bush, emerging from a Larry Speakes was asked whether Reagan wants to they do." And he predicted "the great majority" of meeting with Republican senators at the Capitol, did fight for his nominee. "Yes, he does," Speakes Republican senators would support the nomination in not answer a reportdr's shouted question as to See LEFEVER, Page 1I 4 Victorian sexual image disputed From AP and UPI NEW YORK-A little-publicized sex survey of 47 American married women of the late 1800s found that, unlike the stereotypical image of the Victorian era, they "approached sex with gusto," according to a report in American Heritage magazine's June-July issue. "This survey, though very small, appears to be the earliest systematic study of sexual habits and at- titudes of American women, including information on sexual desire, frequency of intercourse, and orgasms," according to Kathryn Allmong Jacob, an assistant historian at the U.S. Senate Historical Of- fice. THE STUDY, BEGUN in 1892 by researcher and physician Clelia Duel Mosher, was discovered in 1974 in the Stanford University Archives by historian Carl Degler. "Clelia Moslier demonstrated in her small, pioneering survey that despite the conflicting war- nings of the marriage manuals of the Victorian age, most of the women she studied engaged in sex with neither reluctance nor distaste," the magazine said. Jacob notes that unlike studies by Alfred Kinsey and Shere Hite, which dealt with women born in the 20th century, the study by Mosher dealt "almost ex- clusively" with women born around the time of the Civil War, three quarters of them born before 1870. IN ADDITION, although the majority believed reproduction was the primary purpose of intercour- se, 24 women said "that the pleasure exchange was a worthy purpose in itself," Jacob writes. At least 30 women also said they used some form of birth control, most often citing douching as the com- mon form. Withdrawal and "timing" were also cited. Although her study is not representative of a statistically significant sample of Victorian women, it "is important because it is the only such survey known to exist," American Heritage said. THE FIRST DATA goes back to 1892, when the report's author interviewed women at the University of Wisconsin. Some faculty criticize I I To introduce you to our great values... WE'RE GIVING YOU $20 OFF CONTACT LENSES. Now save $20 on soft contact lenses. Regular price $69. Choose from top manufacturers like Bausch & Lomb and American Optical. 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