Word: wolfs
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Vestiges of his childhood and his manic adolescence remain. He can still be persuaded upon occasion to do visceral and sometimes appalling routines like "Cow to the Slaughter" and the "Wolf Man." The days when gambling had become so compulsive that he would place bets on both competing teams are well behind him, but he still takes a shot at the Las Vegas slot machines now and again. Gould remains an energetic sports freak, and a picture of New York Knickerbocker Star Willis Reed is Scotch-taped to his bedroom wall. His conversation is salted with sports slang and four...
Using interviews and government household registration records, Wolf studied 303 marriages between 1900 and 1925, a stable period on Taiwan, when the proportion of major and minor marriages remained roughly constant. His findings: minor marriages, with partners brought up together, produced more adultery, more divorces and fewer children than major marriages. This indicated to Wolf that the long years of proximity stifled rather than stimulated sexual desire...
Runaway Newlyweds. Thirty-two of the 132 minor marriages ended in divorce or separation, compared with only two of the 171 major marriages. In those minor marriages that did not break up, adultery was relatively common. Extramarital affairs were far fewer in major marriages. "The sharp difference," says Wolf, "suggests a need for extramarital sexual gratification on the part of women who marry a childhood associate. That this is due to a distaste for sexual relations with their husbands is evident." The aversion also worked on minor-marriage husbands, who were more likely than others to keep mistresses or patronize...
...girl was so repelled that she fed her husband a potion made from pomegranate roots; it was said to have made him impotent. Then she proceeded to demonstrate her appetite by sleeping around with dozens of other men. Sometimes "brother-sister" newlyweds have tried to escape their fate. Reports Wolf: "One old man told me that he had to stand outside the door of their room with a stick to keep the newlyweds from running away." Despite the strong Oriental concern with ensuring descendants, villagers believed that twelve of the couples had never consummated their marriages. In all twelve cases...
...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...