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by STEVE KADEL
Staff Writer
Today's sexual revolution
isn't actually as much a
revolution as a willingness to
talk about things that have
always been happening,
psychologist Albert Ellis told a
group of 60 students and
faculty members Monday
afternoon.
Ellis, who will speak at 1 :30
Wednesday in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom and at Burr
Hall at 7 p.m., said: "Society
has never adhered strictly to
monogamous relationships.
We've held to traditional mores
legally, but not in practice."
He said the difference in
recent years has been with
women, who are having more
pre-marital sex today.
"PREVIOUSLY THE
women who had pre-marital
sex only did it once or twice
with their fiance," Ellis said,
"but now they're doing it with
many different partners. Both
men and women are having sex
with much less guilt and
marriage hasn't changed or
evaporated because of this."
Ellis maintains that despite
all the talk today about group
sex, human beings still want a
one-to-one relationship.
"No group has ever had true
communal marriage for any
length of time," he pointed
out. "It's just too hard to do
that. Some people have
maintained that it would be
possible to share partners
without jealousy but I think
they are ever optimistic."
'MARRIAGES OF today
are still based on this
one-to-one relationship but will
include greater permissiveness,
including adultery, which has
always happened but has been
hidden," Ellis said.
Ellis conceded tht adultery
contributes to divorce, but
argued that, "Adultery would
help dissolve an unhealthy
marriage, since most people
marry unwisely in the first
place."
The psychologist credited
women's liberation movements
in areas such as New York,
Chicago and San Francisco
with dissolving the double
standard that sex is permissible
for men but not for women.
According to Ellis this double
standard was largely
perpetuated by women.
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Ellis . . . human beings still want one-to-one
relationship.
In a survey taken by the
University Department of
Sociology last semester 87
percent of the women thought
it is not permissible for a girl to
have sex with someon6 she
doesn't love, compared to 44
percent of the men
interviewed. Ellis used these
figures to show that women
only have sex for love.
"THEY'RE AFRAID if
they do it for sex they will be
rejected afterwards," Ellis said.
"They rigidly stick to the value
that it's necessary to have sex
with love. This is a tragic
situation."
Even reading pornography
has helped women to a better
sex life, according to Ellis.
" Books like The Sensuous
Woman are good because they
are written by women. A great
many women have been helped
by this book," he said.
Ellis listed the main reason
for sexual failure, such as
frigidity and impotence, as
interference. "If you get
worried about having orgasm
or maintaining the act a certain
length of time you're obviously
going to fail," said Ellis.
HE EVEN FEELS that the
need to be loved has a place in
politics.
4The reason we're in
Vietnam is our need to be
loved. We're going to save the
whole damn world. Nixon is
one of the greatest needers of
love," Ellis said, "but the peace
workers are just as confused as
Nixonites. Their actions are
prompted by the dire need to
be loved."
"Thoreau, Gandhi and
Martin Luther King were real
believers in non-violence," Ellis
continued. "They believed
even if you win a war with
violence you have lost. But
today's rightists and leftists are
just screwballs who are severely
disturbed."
Peahody plays power ploys
by MARSHA BANGERT
Staff Writer
He called it the Peabody Power game and
for almost three hours Tuesday University
participants negotiated, collaborated and
fought over pointless points.
It all began when George Peabody, a
World in Revolution speaker, divided about
30 people into five groups to demonstrate
the workings of social power in the game
designed by him.
Peabody, president of the Peabody
Organizational Development, inc., gave each
group 20 points and ground rules on how to
win or lose the meaningless points in three
20-minute rounds.
The aim: to get the groups who said they
were collaborating to list each other on
secret ballots. In each round, a group had
one ballot on which it listed the group or
groups it thought were its collaborators, and
bet points on its judgment.
If such was the case, the group gained
points. If not, the points the group bet were
subtracted.
THERE WERE NO issues to negotiate,
just the points - each group trying to serve
their self-interest by exploiting the
self-interest of another group.
Peabody told the participants:
"Self-interest is really what motivates
people. The power you need is determined
by the goals you have."
He noted that power is not only muscle
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or money, but rather what it takes to get
something done.
"Think of power as results, not as a
clout," he said. He cited Vietnam as a
situation of "impotence" rather than
"potency" even though American military
strength there has been great.
With that advice from Peabody, the group
entered round one of the game calmly.
Groups II, III and IV quickly formed a
coalition. Members of the groups later
recalled that the understanding was so quick
they feared it would fall apart before they
could turn in their ballots at the end of the
20 minute period.
But the coalition held with the three
groups emerging the winners of that round.
With the start of round two, strategy began
to develop and the "pointless points"
became a means to winning.
DONT LET this game tell you how to be
happy," Peabody warned at one point.
" Politics is a game of trust. Trust is a big
issue in power."
But trust began to waiver as a member
from each of two groups exchanged wallets
to ascertain the other group marked its
secret ballot as spokesmen promised.
However, one member removed everything
but his draft card from his wallet before the
exchange.
The wallet as a bond failed to insure the
honesty.
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