THE SEXCESS is a sensuous novel by George Frank Oliver which is brash to exhibit audacious literary language by far by an Indo-British author. The book in fact may not appease the traditional people or readers with its high-strung diction and contents of myth and philosophy, sex, amour, and rampant passions of men and women for lust and money. Far from being autobiographical, the novel depicts the acute intellectual burst of the protagonist in his trenchant words with no empathy for people who exploit people themselves. With a strong grouse and inexorable dejection in Nigerian life, Dalton is ever libidinous and craves sex and money. Above all, the voice of Gabriel, the mythical ancestor gives an electric power to the whole structure of the novel set in a Nigerian backdrop.

How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States. French considers three groups of Americans—Shakers, Catholic priests and nuns, and followers of sexual reformer Sylvester Graham—whose sexual abstinence provoked almost as much social, moral, and political concern as the idea of sexual excess. Examining private diaries and letters, visual culture and material artifacts, and a range of published works, French reveals how people practicing sexual restraint became objects of fascination, ridicule, and even violence in nineteenth-century American culture. Against Sex makes clear that in assessing the history of sexuality, an expansive view of sexual practice that includes abstinence and restraint can shed important new light on histories of society, culture, and politics.

Considers alleged improprieties in the AID program for giving excess military property to foreign countries under the economic assistance program. Also considers S. 1974, to require that excess property be made available to local health, education and civil defense agencies before it can be given to foreign governments.