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Intro -- Contents -- Approaches and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Sexual Experience -- Erotic Reality and Everyday Reality -- 1. The Lascivious Shift out of Everyday Reality -- 2. The Sensual Slide into Erotic Reality -- Part Two. Smut Structure -- Sex and Dirt -- 3. Normal Sex: The Destruction of the Individual -- 4. Perveted Sex: The Destruction of the Social -- Part Three. The War of the World Views -- Sexuality and Ideology -- 5. Sexual Ideologies: Moral, Immoral, Amoral -- 6. Sex at the Interstices of Ideologies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

▪ Abstract  The motivating engines of intellectual life are not true ideas but interesting ones. This article investigates the aphorism, the purest form of an interesting idea that draws the mind onward. It begins by examining the linguistic style of aphorisms, their reconceptions of experience from deceptive surfaces to more fundamental truths, their psychological and social effects on the vanity and status of their creators and conveyers, and the decline of their conceptual charisma into cliché until a surprising modification restarts the aphorism-cliché cycle. The investigation of aphorisms broadens to their intellectual and cultural contexts by examining their expansion into articles and collection into books, the different aspects of a topic revealed by aphoristic perspectives and scientific sequences, and the similarities (and differences) between aphoristic and postmodern ways of knowing. This article ends with a series of aphorisms on the cognitive substance of alluring knowledge, which distinguish some of the components of interesting ideas.

The family makes a belated but welcome appearance in Social Indicators, 1976 after being all but ignored in Social Indicators, 1973. In recent years, statistics on the family have recorded a steady increase in the divorce rate, a decline in both the marriage & birth rates, & a growing proportion of premarital births to total births. These trends translate into family structures in which more children are members of single-parent families. Although not inevitable, some harmful spillover effects are probably generated, eg, less-attractive personal qualities, less domestic tranquility, & less individual capability for educational achievement, work accomplishment, & earning power. After this second run through of social indicators, there seems to be sufficient evidence that, while the work was conducted by very competent people, the operational structure is far from optimal to maintain sustained progress. Producing social indicators requires more than a process of searching & soliciting statistical tables from the statistical networks, assembling them in packages of charts, tables, & texts, & marketing them in attractive publications. In the end it may be that insufficient resources have been committed to these social indicator projects, precluding the formation of proper operational goals, rather than concluding that social indicator efforts are bereft of potential. 8 Tables, 1 Figure, 4 Charts. Modified HA.

The family makes a belated but welcome appearance in Social Indicators, 1976 after being all but ignored in Social Indicators, 1973. In recent years, statistics on the family have recorded a steady increase in the divorce rate, a decline in both the marriage and birth rates, and a rising proportion of premarital births to total births. These trends translate into family structures in which an increasing proportion of children are members of single-parent families. Although not inevitable, on balance some harmful spillover effects are probably generated such as less attractive human personal qualities, declining domestic tranquility in the community, and decreasing individual capability for educational achievement, work accomplishment, and earning power. After this second run through of social indicators, there seems to be sufficient evidence that, while the work was conducted by very competent people, the operational structure is far from optimal for achieving sustained progress in this field. Producing social indicators requires more than a process of searching and soliciting statistical tables from the statistical networks, assembling them in packages of charts, tables, and texts and marketing them in attractive publications. In the end it may come down to the fact that insufficient resources have been committed to these social indicator projects, precluding the formation of proper operational goals, rather than concluding that social indicator efforts are bereft of potential.