Word: incest
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...Premarital sexual relations are al lowed in a clear majority of societies, but extramarital relations are almost universally condemned. Every known human society forbids incest, but nearly all have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...
...till Sandra gets tired of bringing up father and the customers get sick of a script that finds sublimated incest cute...
...column after column of type. Follow his traces hoping to find something, but always at the end you find nothing there. Mailer concludes, as far as I can tell, that Mary finked the job because "nice girls live on the thin juiceless crust of the horror beneath, the screaming incest, the buried diabolisms.... Yet Mary is too weak to push through the crust and so cannot achieve a view of the world which has root...
Just when it was becoming fashionably sick, someone had to come along and remind everybody that sex can be fun. The contemporary five-foot shelf abounds in incest, lewd vagrancy, homosexual hanky-panky, reckless driving, and other suburban indelicacies. Such misdemeanors seem thoroughly neurotic compared to the plain if repetitive dalliance of Fanny Hill, heroine of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, originally published circa 1749 and widely accredited as the first deliberately dirty novel in English...
Monarchs, tyrants and oligarchs have over the ages nurtured oppression, sponsored scourges, incest and hemophilia. But they also taught the world the fine art of luxury, leaving behind them a landscape dotted with opulent castles, lodges and retreats no latter-day head of state (even if he could afford it) would ever be permitted to call home...