Word: incestousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rape and family violence and incest are still uncomfortable subjects. And the common good is hardly better served by easy statutory fiats?one spouse slapping another is not just like any other criminal assault?than by the old silence of misplaced propriety. But the unspeakable must be spoken, in all of its repellent conjugations. Take, for example, the biggest taboo: "As long as incest has that secrecy," says Miriam Ingebritson, a Minneapolis therapist, "it has a potency and power it doesn't deserve. It has to be stripped of that power." There are now all kinds of places to turn...
...branded with cigarette burns that spelled I CRY. One remarkable Connecticut woman named Carol,* 38, who is a volunteer counselor of imprisoned rapists, knows freakishly well that home is not necessarily a haven: it was in her childhood home in the early 1950s that she was the victim of incest, at a friend's home that a half-dozen men gang-raped her, in her very own home that her second husband beat the living daylights out of her again and again...
...willingness among officials in schools, hospitals, law-enforcement and social agencies to detect and report instances of child abuse. Relatives and neighbors of the victims also seem more ready to ask the relevant local authorities to intervene. The wall of silence is breaking down even in cases of incest and sexual abuse of children by close acquaintances, which were almost always hushed up in the past...
...difficulty dealing with physical abuse that falls short of wanton cruelty or life-endangering acts. The line between a generally approved spanking and a beating that escalates into brutality and illegality is often fuzzy. But the law, like society in general, is not ambivalent about sexual abuse of children. Incest, usually defined as intercourse between blood relatives extending through first cousins, is illegal in every state. Sexual offenders who are not family members may be charged with rape, child molesting or similar crimes. Pedophiles, who have an obsessive fixation on sex with children, can abuse their own sons and daughters...
John had a heavy heroin problem. Paul picked off girls like grapes. George, according to Harrison Brown, bedded Ringo's wife and later, when asked why, just shrugged and said, "Incest." Ringo was a dedicated jet-setter whose solid but unexceptional drumming talents were eventually unequal to the demands of the more complex Beatles music; Paul had to dub in Ringo's parts in the studio. Epstein agonized over a merchandising deal that lost the Beatles millions, but Lennon consoled himself with cash delivered by concert promoters in brown paper bags. Epstein took 25%, and the band...