Word: incestousness
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...situation is similar in the arts. If tradition means restraint, there is scarcely any restraint about what may be publicly expressed or represented. U.S. audiences seem to have become unshockable. Dramas of incest and homosexuality are commonplace, total (if momentary) nudity has occurred onstage in Marat/Sade and in a "happening" at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church playhouse, in which a nude couple was seen slowly crossing the stage clasped in each other's arms. As for literature, even though the Supreme Court decision on Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Eros suggests a reassertion of older standards (TIME, April...
Spruill slithers across the stage, rubbing the boards with his arms and legs; when he roars his whole body heaves as though he was vomiting up sound. He is the man that the white dressed girl, Rosemary, corrupts; she coaxes him into committing incest with his sister...
Justice Brennan refused to endorse the trial judge's ringing condemnation of all three Ginzburg products as themselves obscene and "a gross shock to the mind." Instead, Brennan nailed Ginzburg for salacious sales pitches. In one Eros brochure, he blatantly promised articles on "Incest in the American Midwest," "Was Shakespeare a Homosexual?" and "Sex in the Supermarket." Before Ginzburg acquired Handbook, its author, "Rey Anthony," printed it privately, sold 12,000 copies to assorted therapists, several of whom had testified at the trial that it proved useful in professional practice. Ginzburg's companies, said Brennan, went beyond this...
Shock Corridor can be chalked up as Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...
...offense? Should a woman whose husband is not sterile be permitted to use A.I.D. because she desires a child of what she hopes is "better stock" than her husband's? Since one donor is capable of fathering 30 children per donation, how can the law prevent incest between siblings sired by the same donor? (A doctor's privileged knowledge once headed off just such a marriage.) If records are kept, how public can they be without hurting the children...