Word: incestousness
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...part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short of incest...
...Langham-Anthony Burgess Oedipus goes back beyond Sophocles to the myth from which he borrowed. Here they find the king a primitive hero who lifts one evil spell-the Sphinx's-only to bring down a worse spell by violating the ultimate taboo: incest. On the Guthrie stage, dark as the predawn of civilization, this ritual circle of plot is made to stand out like an elemental curse: by solving its riddle,* Oedipus destroys the Sphinx; by failing to solve soon enough the mystery of his own identity-whose son he is-Oedipus destroys himself...
...they find a mixed group disturbing-as many do. For this and other reasons, kibbutz young people seem to have few serious sexual difficulties. Even when older boys and girls share the same dormitories, there is little sexual activity or even dating among roommates, apparently because a kind of incest taboo develops. There is no known homosexuality on the collectives, and practically no illegitimacy. Divorce is infrequent. Kibbutzim have their share of neurotics, but no more than cities have, and for those who want it, psychiatric help is readily available...
...young and old, using them to represent all forms of societal and psychological troubles in the world today. Sickle-cell anemia apparently can't be mentioned without bringing in miscegenation, heroin addiction, and the ghetto experience. Twin "babies" age twenty-eight, spell double-trouble night down the line: homosexuality, incest, fake suicides and "dressing up" together; they put the Bobbseys to shame...
...arch-incest is the sexual intercourse of husband and wife...