This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"For most Americans the sexual revolution was not a vast national orgy of swingers. There was never widespread approval of adultery or promiscuity. The revolution - evolution is a better word - appeared rather as a massive questioning of the double standard and the sexual constraints we grew up with." - Ellen Goodman
"Promiscuity, possessiveness, misuse of sex for purposes of power, are all highly disintegrative." - P. W. Martin
"Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep peaceful passion of a noble soul. This spring morning, the loveliness of the great city, the first wallflowers scenting her lap, had little by little melted her heart." - Emile Zola