Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolf concluded that the incest taboo is not a response to the needs of the social order, but an expression of private motives. In short, too much togetherness, in childhood and adolescence, can prevent the companionship from ripening into conjugal love...
...that he would succeed his uncle as King. "I had my tickets, my traveler's checks, everything," he says. "But when I was caught by the net, I had no choice." As Asantehene, he may leave Kumasi only with permission from the council and is forbidden by tribal taboo ever to be alone. "We are all bound to serve the Golden Stool," he says piously, "one way or another...
...American sculptor and active New York feminist who graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota and Oxford, Millett views male supremacy as a myth that has been kept alive for thousands of years by a grandiose patriarchal conspiracy. "Primitive society," she writes, "practices its misogyny in terms of taboo and mana which evolve into explanatory myth. In historical cultures, this is transformed into ethical, then literary, and in the modern period, scientific rationalizations for the sexual politic...
...public figure, too much print and portraiture has done even greater damage to the staying power of other notables. Consider the following, who are all but universally regarded as public bores: HUGH HEFNER, who has spared no expense to disseminate his Playboy philosophy of name-brand hedonism among the taboo-haunted unswingers of the Western world...
...were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study of a hitherto taboo subject. Says Masters: "He opened the door. We wanted to kick it all the way open...