Word: tabooed
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...real problem of male homosexuality involves boys who show no sign of growing out of it naturally. Partly because of strong social prejudices, partly because the topic was so long under a strict taboo, ignorance about it is almost universal. What are its causes? Can it be cured? If so, how? On these key questions, leading U.S. psychiatrists and other doctors are at last nearing agreement. A consensus...
...firm doing construction work in Saudi Arabia. Since they were not newcomers in the country, it seemed clear that they had foolishly driven their car to Mecca out of a sense of adventure, not because they had lost their way or were ignorant of a centuries-old taboo...
...India, where kissing in public is taboo, the best one can do is depict a couple exchanging moonstruck gazes...
...program of voluntary emasculation, feels Denmark is effectively treating sex criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will the Jorgensen case affect the future treatment of transvestites? In Denmark there...
Battle technique is simple soak the other guy. Fights have so far been confined indoors. Fighting outside is taboo, particularly when its raining (or snowing)--the idea is to bring the wet inside. Water bombs are out, since the more refined pistol shooters claim the bomb thrower has an unfair advantage...