Word: taboos
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...results of the questionnaire indicate that many students feel the presence of an "Incest taboo" between "brothers and sisters" on the hall. Yet more than 90 per cent of those polled felt the coed living situation had favorably affected their formation of "sexual relationships...
David M. Sloan '71, also living in North House, attributes the possibility of an "incest taboo" to a separation of two worlds-the dorm clique and outsiders. "People don't often bring dates to the dining room," Sloan said. "It's unfair to bring outsiders into a world where you know people so much more...
...Taboo Terms. In bed the action is mostly conventional: "When a swinger becomes unusually venturesome," Bartell says, "the chances are that he will not find a cooperative partner." Still, vibrators are not uncommon, and homosexual behavior between the women is almost routine. Explains Bartell: "It turns men on to watch women together, and it conserves their own sexual energy." Sexual relations between the men is rare, however, and is considered bad form. Also taboo: terms of endearment between sexual partners...
...Whenever a tanker enters a Libyan port, it is searched. If there is anything aboard that has been made or grown in Israel, the owner of the ship is fined or the vessel is seized. The Libyan government recently moved to new extremes, and so did Mobil. To the taboo list, the Libyan government added-and the company complied with-Jaffa orange juice canned in Norway or Canada and four products that have no Israeli connections at all: Brazilian beer and ginger ale, Trinidadian orange juice and Swedish matches. Reason: the labels of all four have six-pointed symbols vaguely...
...first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the old priest-king, and then in turn be on his guard against his successor, who will slay him. The second, from Freud's Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment, feel guilt at the destructive act, and a resurgence of affection. From this springs the taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder in general. Miller...