Monday, April 27, 2009

Sexual Tense-ion

Timesdelphic.com - April 20, 2009

The D-Spot: 100 years of sex and then some


http://media.www.timesdelphic.com/media/storage/paper1086/news/2009/04/20/RelaysFeatures/The-DSpot.100.Years.Of.Sex.And.Then.Some-3717672.shtml
1933 - Dr. Robert Dickinson came out with "Human Sex Anatomy," the first modern book by a sexologist to contain illustrations of sex positions.

1938 - The New York Board of Censors bans all movies mentioning pregnancy, venereal disease, birth control, abortion, illegitimacy, prostitution, miscegenation (interracial relationships) and divorce.
This article is in a timeline format. Every blurb is written in the present tense, except for this one about 1933. The verb should be "comes out" instead of "came out" in order to have a consistent tense throughout the whole article. Plus, "came out" is not a very interesting or descriptive verb. "Writes" would be much better. The 1938 blurb is shown here to illustrate the tense of the rest of the article.

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