Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myths to attack. Perhaps that accounts for the latestand what may be the most reprehensible yettrend in the field: well-known researchers and a few allies in academe are conducting a campaign to undermine the strongest and most universal of sexual proscriptions, the taboo against incest...
Most of the chipping away at the taboo is still cautious and limited. Says John Money of Johns Hopkins, one of the best-known sex researchers in the nation: "A childhood sexual experience, such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person, need not necessarily affect the child adversely." Money and Co-Author Gertrude Williams complain in their forthcoming book Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children about the public attitude that "no matter how benign, any adult-child interaction that may be construed as even remotely sexual, qualifies, a priori, as traumatic and abusive...
...surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair has led the creators of this film to bedrock taboo: the possibility of incest...
...literally anyway; it serves mainly as something for a naturally cautious, rather distracted male to employ as justification for his hesitations. Even without it the man evidently would come to resist the impulsiveness and vitality of his young lover. When she finally leaves him, it is not the taboo that drives them apart, but her romantic insistence on ending the affair at its peak, before quarrelsomeness sets...
Unfortunately, the players needed protection more than the score did. Poor refereeing and aggressive bodychecking--taboo in women's hockey--created a tense atmosphere that persisted throughout the last two-thirds of the game...