Word: rapes
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...pornography issue represents the lynch pin for issues ranging from homosexual rights to marital rape legislation, the pornographic image represents only the surface of an entire sexual mentality underlying social behavior and attitudes. The F.A.C.T. reprint of an L.A. Times editorial points out, "the target should be the coercion, not the sexual nature of the image." Why not, perhaps, both...
...subjects used to produce a blush. Today they produce a TV show. On it, incest, sadomasochism, homosexuality, rape, frigidity, all can be discussed in the name of frankness, liberty and Donahue. Now the host has gone on beyond morning to bring his audience a look at The Human Animal. The Western variety, reports Donahue, suffers from the Judeo-Christian tradition. When the Talmud refers to God, "the endings are always masculine." In Roman Catholicism, Mary "derives her status from a male relative." Stained with sexism, flooded with hormones, prone to violence, the Animal seems doomed to repeat its self-destructive...
Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina, announced that "the only redeeming social value" he could find in rock "is that the words are inaudible." The P.M.R.C.'s Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, evoked a "proliferation of songs glorifying rape, sado-masochism, incest, the occult and suicide by a growing number of bands." Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans...
Isenberg, an aspiring actress, was accosted by Torres early in the morning of Sunday, December 2, 1984, when he robbed her and attempted to rape her, official reports stated. When she resisted, he stabbed her nine times, according to police reports...
Isenberg, an aspiring actress, was accosted by Torres early in the morning of Sunday, December 2, 1984, when he robbed her and attempted to rape her, official reports stated. When she resisted, he stabbed her nine times, according to police reports...