Word: forbidden
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Reached in Paris, Lizot called the charges "disgusting." He added, "I am a homosexual, but my house is not a brothel. I gave gifts because it is part of the Yanomami culture. I was single. Is it forbidden to have sexual relations with consenting adults? People say 'boy,' and they mean anywhere from postpubescent to 25 years...
...find anything about the Forbidden City or the Great Wall in the section on China, but the guide does contain useful advice about navigating the Beijing subway and bus systems. It also contains tips on drinking in Australian pubs (never leave your glass on the bar upside down unless you're prepared to duke it out with everyone in the place) and on early-morning bird watching in Sydney. And where else could you learn to navigate your way between two locations in Antarctica? "From personal experience gained while drunk and freezing, I would like to mention that...
...yahoos of the movement could not foresee that Lian would get an excellent though surreptitious education in the detention camp. The reason is simple: some of the country's finest scholars are there. Unable to show off her forbidden knowledge in public, Lian retreats to a nearby pond to lecture the frogs. This precocious charmer even persuades the camp director to keep a dog. He does, but only until he needs to convince visiting inspectors that his prisoners are getting enough meat...
...consumed in the event of capture, and dozens of them trained as suicide bombers. The FARC-ettes were, well, more Latina. Even when in their fatigues, they wore earrings and pink scrunchees to keep their hair in place, and listened to music on tiny radios. While sex had been forbidden among the Tigers, the FARC's more relaxed view is evidenced by the fact that many of their women fighters wear Nor-plant contraceptives to avoid pregnancy. There's no prohibition on casual sex in the hammocks and wooden plank beds where coed units bivouac, but any permanent coupling requires...
Each couple is given a dog and a small lunch and is instructed to hike up a nearby mountain of moderate difficulty. They are forbidden to speak to each other directly and must instead communicate through the dog, Blackie, a standard poodle. By attributing feelings to a poodle, many people (especially women) are freed from the guilt and responsibility of claiming emotions as their own. Many years' worth of complaints, injustices and dissatisfactions can be called to the surface through the use of a canine medium...