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IB II HILLS OUTLOOK Saturday April isss Outlook oi Lifestyle Wife battles homosexual urges By Meg DEAR MEG My sex life has nev er been anything to brag about My husband and 1 are secure and the kids are happy But I have never been sat isfied sexually I was the same way with my first husband The reason A problem I have sup pressed most of my life I have sexual feelings for women I have never act ed on these feelings nor have I men tioned them to anyone But they are there and they are very strong only go through the motions with my hus band for his sake Now Im worried because an old friend is moving back to town and Is looking forward to seeing me I al ways knew I loved her but she made disapproving remarks about the gay rights movement so I kept quiet I need advice on how to deal with this I enjoy her friendship and want to hu he feelings by avoiding her WIFES SECRET BYE NY DEAR SECRET Rather than worry about your friend theres no need to avoid her think about how youre going to deal with your own problem Youre at the stage reached by many married homosexuals when denying their true sexual orientation becomes very painful For most con fronting homosexual leanings despite all the pain and difficulty involved Is accompanied by feelings of relief freedom and Identity regained Gaining inalght Into the reasons be hind your sexually unrewarding mar riages and your repressed attraction to other women will help you gain more open and comfortable feelings about yourself no matter which course you decide to pursue Please get In touch with the Worn ens psychotherapy Referral Service which will match you with a proles- POLLYS POINTERS who will work with you The groups address is Perry St New York NY or call DEAR MEG J have a question Last month my brother died Is his wife still my sisterinlaw I say were no longer related She says we are Whats the answer MegT HOPE SHES NOT PROVIDENCE HI DEAR HOPE The widow of your late brother is now your former sis terinlaw DEAft MEG Theres an extra man our social group who in my opinion Is out of line As soon as our Saturdaynight dance starts be goes after my wife He always asks ber to dance or Join him table This causes problems in our crowd because we are couples and it upsets our exchanging dances It also makes me mad Ive told my wife she should turn him down but she says she wont be cause It would hurt his reelings I say If she wont I will and I wont be nice about it SPOILING FOR A FIGHT SUBURBAN ILL DEAR SPOILING There are two types of women who can t say no those who dont like to and those who dont want to sauce In a microwave By Polly DEAR POLLY Do you have a recipe or sauce that can be made in the microwave DW DEAR Heres easy method far preparing great thats microquick and micro- foolproof In a microwavesafe cap or small bow combine egg yelks tablespoons lemon teaspoon salt teaspoon paprika desired a dash of grand red pepper or hot pepper de sired Set aside cap batter to a separate cap or bowl est high or 1M- power abort jest melted Do allow batter to babble II It does babble It coal a few minutes before proceeding Sta ll egg yolk mixture vigorously whUo adding the melted batter En a very stream Cook on Ugh or lHpcrcent power for It seconds to one minute stirring vlgorossly every II seconds Serve Immediately DRGOTT Women smokers risk their lives By Peter Mil If youre like me you cant resist occasionally thumbing through old magazines of the ISSOs and lS40s especially Life and The Saturday Evening Post just to look at the ad vertisements Some of the products In the ads are still available although of course they re marketed in a more uptodate fashion I particularly ad mire the old cars They were glorious and were sold at what seem to have been extraordinarily low prices The midcentury appliances too were quaint by modern standards However It Is the cigarette ads that really document the tremendous changes that have marked the evolu tion this product At the turn of the century smoking was reserved for the very rich the very debonair and the very Inde cent As late as the 1920s tobacco companies refused to promote ciga rettes to women for fear of a prohibi tionist backlash In the 1940s profes sional athletes such as Johnny endorsed smoking a healthful habit to increase physical performance and improve fitness To day we grimace at bow misleading old cigarette ads were We are dis mayed at how naive we were to have believed them Modem entrepreneurs are much more skillful In presenting tobacco products and these products are much more likely to be directed to ward capturing a female market In the past 30 years cigarette manufac turers have cleverly Identified smok ing with womens emancipation and recently with Realizing that our culture equates obesity with social tobacco pro moters have repeatedly emphasized that women can control their weight by smoking because nicotine does re duce appetite Themes like youve come a long way baby have deterlo- into slick copy that panders to be thin and sex ually attractive In addition cigarette packaging Is often designed for femi nine appeal slim cigarettes are in vogue Some companies go so far as to offer discounted products in return for choosing a particular brand of cigarette Unfortunately this marketing ploy Is based to a degree on truthTSmok do tend to weigh less than non- smokers However the tradeoff in health la astronomical a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine scientists reported on the consequences of smoking in a group of 120000 female nurses The results were astonishing De pending on the number of cigarettes consumed per day the smokers showed op to percent Increased risk for heart attack- Among women smoking in excess of a pact a day more than percent of heart attacks were judged to be directly attribut able to smoking Other effects of ciga rettes Included lung cancer cervical and uterine cancer possible breast cancer chronic respiratory diseases early menopause fractured bones from accelerated 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