Word: incestousness
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Herman's feminist perspective suits her subject matter perfectly. The major biological, psychological and social theories of incest (she deals with them one by one) fail to account for the vast contrast between the sexually abusive behavior of fathers and mothers. According to Herman, father-daughter incest ultimately finds its best explanation in the male-dominated structure of society...
ALMOST immediately, the word "incest" brings to mind the word "taboo." American society, like most others, has strong cultural and legal prohibitions against sex between members of the nuclear family. No one likes to talk about incest, but the ugly truth is that men sexually abuse their own daughters far more commonly than most people would guess. Mother-son incest is nearly non-existent by comparison. By writing Father-Daughter Incest. Judith Lewis Herman proposes a solution. In effect, she says for the crimes to end, the facts must be known...
...women ensures the reproduction in each generation of the psychology of male supremacy. It produces sexually aggressive men with little capacity to nurture, nurturant women with undeveloped sexual capacities, and children of both sexes who stand in awe of the power of fathers. Wherever these conditions obtain, father daughter incest is likely to be a common occurrence...
...similar attitude in a more bizarre form came from sociologist Warren Farell in 1976 "Homosexuality, wife swapping, open marriage, bisexuality, S & M. and kiddie porn have already had their seasons...After centuries of restraint, incest is finally...
FATHER DAUGHTER INCEST documents the impact of incest on the female victims Excerpts from the conversations of 40 women who talked with Dr. Herman and her associates piece together the shared experience of brutality. Ten percent of the women had father who began imposing sexual demands before the girls were five years old. The legacy of their abuse--inevitably remaining with them for life, includes suicidal tendencies, depression promiscuity, alcohol and drug abuse, the utter debasement of self-image, and a host of other pathologies...