Word: taboos
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...Taboo. In some of his advice, Spock veers from the traditional. He advises the boy who aches after petting because he has refrained from intercourse to "solve the problem by allowing or encouraging himself to have an orgasm." About young people who make an "arrangement" by living together, he writes: "If the idea is acceptable to them, it may be a responsible way to enter marriage...
...Spock offers teen-agers his translations of Freudian theory: Why are adolescents sometimes attracted to their own sex? Because "the taboo against interest in the opposite sex, which was so intense from about six to eleven years, can't be outgrown in a hurry." Why is an early infatuation so overwhelming? Often because the loved person looks or acts like a parent who was "loved so intensely in early childhood...
Belli told 200 people at the Harvard Law School Forum in Ames Courtroom that "We all come from the vaginal canal but after we become aware of it, it becomes a taboo subject...
Wolf concluded that the incest taboo is not a response to the needs of the social order, but an expression of private motives. In short, too much togetherness, in childhood and adolescence, can prevent the companionship from ripening into conjugal love...
...that he would succeed his uncle as King. "I had my tickets, my traveler's checks, everything," he says. "But when I was caught by the net, I had no choice." As Asantehene, he may leave Kumasi only with permission from the council and is forbidden by tribal taboo ever to be alone. "We are all bound to serve the Golden Stool," he says piously, "one way or another...