Word: unwantedness
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Here at Harvard, the University's College Life Survey of 1987-88 revealed that 32 percent of undergraduate women and eight percent of undergraduate men had "experienced unwanted or inappropriate sexual attention"--though not necessarily rape or assault--from a Harvard or non-Harvard peer.
These days, zoos hard pressed for space have adopted strict breeding practices to prevent unwanted offspring ending up in dismal wayside attractions or being used as quarry at private big-game ranches.
This year, the tour includes information on contraception, such as King Lear's epididymectomy. The procedure, which involves cutting the sperm channel, eliminated unwanted baby bisons, but didn't stop King Lear from being dominant bull.
By contrast, women's participation in sexual intercourse is governed by the report's sexual assault provisions, which ban only those unwanted sex acts that are accomplished through "physical force or threat of bodily injury." The sexual assault definition provides little protection for a physically incapacitated male.
8. Pass right-to-die laws, not only because a person should have control over his or her body, but also because it's crazy to spend a fortune on unwanted medical care in the last months of life when we haven't the resources to nurture all our children...