Word: incest
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...example, women who have grown up in sexually abusive environments are unlikely to be protective to their bodies or to insist on their own physical autonomy. A woman who has grown up as the victim of incest is unlikely to consider the idea of sexual "violation" as a relevance to her; all her sexual experiences have been abusive violations...
...some places they won't be able to. naral predicts that 13 states will ban abortion outright, though typically with exceptions for the so-called hard cases: when the life of the mother is at risk, the fetus is seriously deformed or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Other states are likely to be satisfied with a raft of new restrictions, such as 24-hour waiting periods and laws requiring clinics to be equipped as hospitals, which would drive up prices. Parental notification laws, already in place in 18 states, will be even more widely adopted, posing problems...
Take Back the Night is ostensibly a series of events to raise awareness in the community about the appalling prevalence of violence against women. But Take Back the Night should not just be a "women's event." The lectures, films and panel discussions on date rape, rape prosecution, pornography, incest and anti-gay violence should be of interest and of some help to all people. No one should avoid these issues or feel that they aren't affected by violence against a group or individual in this society...
...dramas are curiously ritualistic and similar to one another. A celebrity wanders in the shadow world of Dysfunction: amid drugs or booze or binge eating. Or else in Denial of something, of incest, say, or child abuse, or another shameful secret. This is the Exemplary Ordeal. Celebrity Hits Bottom (descent into underworld). Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated...
...impressive (through not original ) make-up trick . We follow him downstairs, where his mother (Alice Krige) tries to catch members of the cat vigil that is steadily growing outside her kitchen window. Always the dutiful son, Charles tries to cheer her up with a little dancing and a little incest...