Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embers. They are emphatic: they would never set the blaze. But none pretends to be sad. Nearby hangs a notice featuring a long-haired, mustachioed Gallardo, 35, with a description: . . .VIEWED AS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS UNTREATED SEX OFFENDER WITH A VERY HIGH PROBABILITY FOR RE-OFFENSE . . . HAS SADISTIC AND DEVIANT SEXUAL FANTASIES WHICH INCLUDE TORTURE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, HUMAN SACRIFICE, BONDAGE AND THE MURDER OF YOUNG CHILDREN. The sheet -- not a wanted poster, since Gallardo has served his time -- was distributed by the sheriff's office. Siders gestures at a gaggle of radiant grade-school girls. These are his type...
Pedophilia and other assorted sexually deviant behavior, because of new revelations of the transgressions of Roman Catholic priests, have been firmly lodged in recent headlines. But this is well-trod terrain. Sexual deviancy has been covered extensively and credibly in Victorian scatological literature as well as and perhaps most memorably by Nabokov...
There are also many vague, uninformed references to the implications of deviant behavior for the psyche. Pseudo-profundities are casually and liberally sprinkled throughout the novel, such as the assertion, "Nudity is the most profound subject in the world...
...just find it extremely difficult to celebrate belonging to a church that actively excludes women from higher [ranks] of membership, has conducted a 2,000-year-old campaign to ensure that women remain barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen and views homosexuals as unnatural and deviant...," he declares...
...expanded freedom and escape from unhappy marriage. When they remarry, they gain added companionship and further economic stability. When they choose not to marry at all, they maintain their freedom to live as they choose. But this happiness too often comes at the children's expense. "The amount of deviant behavior in society has increased beyond the levels the community can afford to recognize," claims Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...