Sentences with phrase «of sexual taboos»

Walerian Borowczyk's 1974 film presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema.

And they've offered only the most superficial treatment to Killer Joe's use of sexual taboos; it seems everybody got so revved in anticipation for that bucket of KFC, they missed the movie.

The increased competition for mates, coinciding with the arrival of the birth control pill, helps to explain a number of things, such as the collapse of sexual taboos as young women began to offer free samples and to pursue men previously considered off limits (such as other women's husbands).

«Maybe having married clergy will help us all move on from a culture of sexual taboos,» Albert Cutié writes

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Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.

(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along with moral commands against such evils as child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial observances, reminiscent of the old taboos.

Child sex abuse is a taboo topic for some parents [and churches]-- CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/…/sexual-abuse-talking-to-kids-parents/ CNN Apr 30, 2014 — Child sexual abuse is a taboo topic in some families, but experts insist that parents must empower kids to speak up about inappropriate... until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the.....

Particularly in the realm of sexual behavior, the elite can enjoy the freedoms that the dissolution of taboos allows, while yet being shielded from the resultant social evils, most notably the collapse of family and community.

It is odd that Walker, who writes so much about sexual abuse of women, should be so insensitive to the incest taboo in By the Light of My Father's Smile.

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... All sorts of sexual proclivities are accepted now, but being celibate in a relationship is still taboo.

Issues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and consent — once considered too taboo and uncomfortable to discuss... more

Encourages breastfeeding by objecting the view of breasts as taboo and sexual objects.

The World Health Organization defines child sexual abuse as the involvement of a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, is not developmentally prepared or violates the laws and social taboos of society.

The IS group's attacks are so traumatic in part because they violate the strictest laws of Yezidi society — taboos against conversion and sexual relations outside the community — and so isolate victims from their own people.

Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions of the human body and that cultural taboos not stand in the way of science.

Yet the «lack of reliable information about how sexual activity and function might change with age and illness, combined with taboos around discussing sex in later life, contributes to worry or even shame for many older adults,» she added.

This Saudi Arabian #GirlBoss hosts Kalam Naweam, a nightly television show that highlights women's issues, gender equality, sexual harassment, divorce, and other controversial topics often considered taboo in her part of the world.

Many find sex between seniors and romance a taboo subject and it's hard for people to imagine older daters to be as sexual as someone in their twenties and thirties, but as many know, it's important to have a full and active life to really enjoy every aspect of a relationship.

Traditionally in Egypt sexual relations outside of marriage are taboo - in fact, any dating that happens is generally short and geared towards getting engaged.

I'm not one of those girls who «doesn't know what to write» for their profile, or plays dumb and acts like this is their first taboo sexual experience (as if online dating is even taboo anymore!).

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Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel 2002 «The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures,» the film bravely and brazenly turns its taboo subject matter — the sexual awakening of a teenage girl — into a funny, smart and honest story that entertains as much as it educates.

Tehran Taboo This handsomely animated film, much of it set in the libertine underworld of Tehran, makes an unassailable point about the hardships of life in today's Iran, mostly involving sexual morality and the status of women.

Even now, more than 40 years later, the original film retains a taboo quality, with scenes of an innocent girl suffering hellish torments — many of them disturbingly sexual in nature — that still hold the power to shock.

Not so much kinky as funny, and not so much sexy and passionate as carefully arranged (like a droopy bouquet), Sexual Predator, despite the amount of skin it gleefully flashes, fails to generate any kind of heat or feeling of taboo.

The sexual content of the director's previous films that bring his ability to deal with such touchy sexual taboos into question;

Arguably, Perry's preceding feature, The Color Wheel, is even closer to the spirit of Roth's work, concerning as it does a bitter war between brother and sister (Perry and co-writer Carlen Altman) that gradually reveals a frisson of taboo sexual desire.

As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

Polanski preys on this idea through this stunning rumination on relationships, taboo, power of both a psychological and sexual nature, and the universal drive of pleasure, no matter from where it may come.

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.

This kind of makes sense, as most of us think about it in relation to some type of sexual activity, and as we all know, this can be a taboo topic in our culture.

The exhibit title is inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973 by sex positive feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s and an important figure of the feminist sexual liberation movement.

Kelley's transgressive project extends understanding for sexual taboos and illicit pleasures still considered incompatible with the aims and interests of present society.

It's a taboo that goes all the way back to Georgia O'Keefe, who gave up trying to beat down that door in the early 20th century when her radically abstract, viscous paintings were described as «great painful, ecstatic climaxes,» «an outpouring of sexual juices,» «loamy hungers of the flesh,» «the very essence of woman as Life Giver.»

The exhibit title is inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973 by sex positive feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s, and was an important figure of the feminist sexual liberation movement.

Drawing from artworks ranging in culture, time period and medium, In Your Dreams, curated by Marina T. Schindler, was a group exhibition that probed the taboo topics of sex, sexual fantasy, intimacy, romance and desire.

Formed in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is internationally recognized for work that tackled such subjects as the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, the relationship between the body and the identity, issues of gender and sexual repression, and famously HIV / AIDS activism at a time when talking about the disease was a taboo.

Through historical works of pioneering feminist artists such as Betty Tompkins and Joan Semmel, to that of emerging contemporary female artists such as Andrea Mary Marshall, India Munuez, Myla Dalbesio, Katie Commodore, and Leah Schrager, Secret Garden presents works by taboo shattering artists who fearlessly address sexual themes in their art and celebrate freedom of expression.

As a sexual partner to the very peoples he studied, Schneebaum broke one of the absolute taboos of the social sciences racket.

Piled and open - ended her sculptures function as screens: closing off, opening up, forming translucencies, windows and backdrops for more narrative suggestions of social taboo, of sexual or economic transaction, and domestic escapade.

Through historical works of pioneering feminist artists such as Betty Tompkins and Joan Semmel, to that of emerging contemporary female artists such as Andrea Mary Marshall, India Munuez, Myla Dalbesio, Katie Commodore, and Leah Schrager, SECRET GARDEN presents works by taboo shattering artists who fearlessly address sexual themes in their art and celebrate freedom of expression.

Thoughts such as wishes for another's misfortune, contemplations of self - harm, and taboo fantasies of sexual desires arrive unannounced, and worse, carry an allure to them.

As Wikipedia notes, «The social construction of sexual behavior — its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact — has had a profound effect on the various cultures of the world since prehistoric times.»

This pioneering book by Marnie Ferree bravely addresses the taboo subject of female sexual addiction with frankness, compassion, and vulnerability.

This second edition is designed to expand discussion of the therapist's taboo reactions to patients beyond sexual feelings.

As she and Drs. Pope and Holroyd discussed in their book, Sexual Feelings in Psychotherapy, a significant component of that process is the therapist's own reactions to the patient, even though some of those feelings are likely to be experienced as taboo for acknowledgement and exploration.

The American Psychological Association issued a press release saying that child psychological abuse is the most prevalent form of abuse and that it is as harmful as sexual abuse, but remarkably, it is not taboo.

We discuss what level of pastoral involvement is appropriate, why sexual addiction is a taboo topic, and why it is so important to have groups for people struggling in the church