Word: incestousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Uproar over Incest...
...hell with pity and on to outrage for any book, movie, article or academic statement that attempts to justify incest [April 14]. To exploit a child for the gratification of an immature and sexually maladjusted adult is to deny love, warmth, nurturing and protection...
...must be symptomatic of a degenerate society that when we can't solve a problem, we begin advocating it. I'm sure the researchers of Sodom and Gomorrah would have lobbied against the ban on incest...
...cruelest, if most honest, of the three villains if Ferdinand, the Duchess' other brother. Shiels and Raymond have gambled heavily here, casting a woman, Kate Levin, as the lustful Ferdinand, but their bet pays off. Ferdinand is passionately in love with his own sister: Levin's casting makes incest all the more unsettling. Insanely jealous of his sister's husband, Ferdinand destroys his sister rather than see her happy with a man he thinks unworthy of her. Unlike Cort and Sands, Levin moves awkwardly--on purpose. Ferdinand struggles against an over-whelming passion, giving in to impulse and then regretting...
Traditional academics have tended to look down on sex researchers as pushy, ham-handed amateurs, and the arguments for incest will do little to change that view. The literature shows absolutely no attention to psychological realities: that often an adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like informed consent to an adult it depends on for life and guidance; or that the lifting of the incest barrier would invite the routine exploitation of children by disturbed parents. The sex researchers may get the shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded...