Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book stresses that for the most part, the French still live under a repressive moral code; sex education and contraception are very rarely taught and practiced. In many parts of the country, parents expect their daughters to maintain their virginity until marriage, and masturbation is taboo. "Male domination" is another cause of the French sexual misery, says Gallien, who adds that "our book is profoundly feminist...
...phrase "banned in Boston" has been a titillating endorsement of smut for generations. Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down all the Commonwealth's obscenity laws as unconstitutionally vague, leaving literally nothing taboo in Cotton Mather's old domain. To fill the moral vacuum, the Massachusetts legislature's joint judiciary committee drew up a bill so graphic that when it was read aloud on the house floor by Representative Barney Frank, spectators in the gallery gasped...
...cases of clear-cut collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews..." is irresponsible and offensive. Just because the author of the article wanted to pursue this particular issue is no excuse for pulling together contradictory phrases and ignoring recorded history. Alternative views of the Holocaust are not "taboo" areas and knowledge is needed not only as a contribution to history but the help us with the present. To present Rosenberg/Vrba's story as THE alternative view of this period only speaks to the ignorance of the author hungering for this view. Bella Rosenberg
...claims, limited the possibilities of resistance and contributed to the deaths of twice as many Jews as would have been killed had it not occurred. Vrba is well aware that this theory is, outside of his personal experience in Hungary, almost impossible to substantiate, and that it touches a taboo area in the study of the period. Thus he has not embarked on a campaign to disseminate his view. He is content to feel that he himself is not taken in by what he believes to be the myths surrounding the holocaust...
...Hunter College. Brown further broadens his background-and rustles up ideas-by visiting students in schools around the country each spring. "The kids today are just frightening in the extent of their awareness," he says. "They're pushing the teachers to talk about topics that were once taboo, like abortion and drugs...