Chicago - The American Medical Association yesterday fired the editor of its journal for publishing an item on how college students define oral sex, timed to appear in the midst of President Clinton's impeachment trial. Lundberg had been editor for 17 years.
The article, which will run in the January 20th issue of the AMA Journal, reports that 60 per cent of US college students in a 1991 survey of 600 students did not define oral sex as sexual relations.
The AMA said its leadership fired George Lundberg because he had inappropriately injected the journal into the Clinton impeachment debate, threatening its integrity. Mr Clinton's definition of sex is a key issue in the debate over whether he lied about his relationship with Ms Monica Lewinsky.
The article in question came from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, at Indiana University. It was entitled "Would You Say You `Had Sex' If" and stated that it was being published in the context of "the current debate regarding whether oral sex constitutes having `had sex' or sexual relations".