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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveal ...
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua ...
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of le ...
The power of lying is much less than the power of "what is not to be discussed."
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a natural ...
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.... Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of d ...
To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fell ...
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