Word: taboos
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...with the number of anthropomorphic features it possesses." This is recognized by even the youngest children; they are generally the most levelheaded owners and associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist...
...wavering Republicans and other undecided members of the House in the coming weeks. At the same time, they plan to shift the fight against impeachment to political grounds, trying to focus attention on Nixon's accomplishments, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Arm twisting will be taboo. Explained one Nixon supporter: "It's counterproductive." Other White House aides, notably Buchanan and Clawson, will attempt to communicate the same line to the public, while Presidential Aide William J. Baroody Jr. will work with pro-Nixon organizations like Rabbi Baruch Korff's National Citizens' Committee for Fairness...
...Mill write On Liberty when he did? Contrary to still-popular opinion, Victorian England was far from a world of class suppression and psychological repression. The established church had slipped in moral authority. Even sex was under a less terrible taboo than has sometimes been assumed. That has been proven by recent explorations of the pervasiveness of Victorian pornography (albeit hidden). Mill was preaching liberty to the converted, Hirnmelfarb argues, except in the area of women's liberation. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill protested that "the social subordination of women" stood out as "an isolated fact...
...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...