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...perversion or a symptom of mental illness," he says. "Incest between . . . children and adults . . . can sometimes be beneficial." Indeed the new pro-incest literature is filled with the stupefying idea that opposition to incest reflects an uptight resistance to easy affection and warmth among family members. Writes Anthropologist Seymour Parker of the University of Utah cautiously: "It is questionable if the costs (of the incest taboo) in guilt and uneasy distancing between intimates are necessary or desirable. What are the benefits of linking a mist of discomfort to the spontaneous warmth of the affectionate kiss and touch between family members...
...consensual incest" involving a parent, and "abusive incest" is different from "positive incest." Some try to give the argument a bit of serious academic coloration, ransacking anthropological literature for a tribe or two that allows incest, or arguing that the incest taboo is dying of its own irrelevance. Rutgers Anthropologist Yehudi Cohen offers a simplified pseudohistorical argument: the taboo is a holdover of a primitive need to form personal alliances and trade agreements beyond the family. Since that is no longer necessary, he says, "human history suggests that the incest taboo may indeed be obsolete." Joan Nelson, a Californian...
...Says he: "The taste for an after-midnight world of exciting [violent] sexuality is not anything to be derided, or taken lightly. It is by now an intrinsic part of many gay men's psychological makeup, and gives texture and meaning to a great many gay lives." Adds Anthropologist Edgar Gregersen of Queens (N.Y.) College, who studies sexual mores: "If you make your first sexual contact in a public toilet or in the back of a truck where the guy next to you may be a cop ready to arrest you or a psychopath waiting to hack off your...
...Chinese economy has opened a crack in that wall. The Bank of America's Hong Kong subsidiary has amassed a two-volume, 450-page report (price: $5,000) on the petrochemical industry that provides the first definitive view of a contemporary Chinese industry. Mandarin-speaking and Harvard-trained Anthropologist Robert Silin, 39, compiled the report, making three trips to China...
...saying not only does the implementation of these policies require the repression of civil liberties, but also the crushing of any free or independent labor movement there. Marglin lists one more reason for the unsuitabiltiy of Harberger: HIID recently attempted to broaden its conception of development by hiring an anthropologist and a sociologist. Harberger, he believes, would endanger an attempt to broaden the types of analysis at HIID which is "just beginning and, at the moment, is very fragile...