Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army reserves who was discharged in 1987. "Their womanhood is not threatened like a man's manhood is when he's around a gay man." Perhaps women's experience with male sexual harassment has made them less skittish about other forms of torment. Or perhaps it is simply less taboo for women to hug and kiss in public...
...brutality that left an estimated 10 million Chinese dead and ruined the lives of millions more. Now tales of even more horrible excesses from the years between 1966 and 1976 are coming to light: allegations of cannibalism, involving hundreds of men and women who violated mankind's most powerful taboo in the name of revolutionary purity...
...Board, those judges of social taboo...
...JUST A TABOO, IT'S THE LAW -- A 1986 ISraeli law under which anyone who talks to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization for any reason can be jailed for three years. But last week a motion by the Labor-led government to repeal that law cleared the first of three readings in the Knesset. Though the margin was the smallest possible, 37 to 36, final passage appears likely, since opponents made their maximum effort to defeat the repeal on the first round; the Likud Party even had five of its members hide in their cars until moments before...
...lesbian and bisexual students who frequent gay bars and clubs are another subgroup of the gay community. Clubs like Club Cafe and Indigo can be a place of escape for homosexual people, Dougherty says, since it is "still very taboo for men to walk hand in hand," even at Harvard...