Word: incest
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Women deserve better than to be forced to carry to term what could be the results of rape or incest...
...hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior...
...light bedding after beauty sleep." When the King visits his Chinese mistress He Zizhen, "He touched him, and he touched He." But make no mistake. Amis is after more than just surface glitz: "After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship - marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." And: "Women wouldn't mind pornography if reproduction took place by some other means: by sneezing, say, or telepathy." Like a meaner, funnier Updike, his talent finds its fullest expression in sentences so perfect they'll keep you stuck on a single page. It's in the task of making...
...citizens in a democracy to pass laws that reflect their values without having courts overrule them. "It is clear from this that the Court has taken sides in the culture war," he wrote in an especially scalding dissent and warned of undermining laws against bestiality, bigamy, prostitution and incest. He further suggested that the court's attempt to cordon off this decision from others, especially gay marriage, was naive...
...extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs except on programs like Ye's "Accompanying You 'Til Dawn." Other calls that Ye fields have brought tales of incest, spousal abuse and date rape. "My program provides a relatively private space for people to tell their stories," says the 34-year-old Ye, who prides herself on useful advice instead of simple platitudes. "Newspapers don't have so much space for ordinary people's lives...