Sentences with phrase «public squeamishness»

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It is public and it is entrenched in practice, there to be exploited by others who view our abhorrence as no more than irrational squeamishness.

Legislators, business owners and family members are debating how to reconcile the health benefits of nursing with the prevailing cultural squeamishness toward nursing in public.

Last year, researchers at Cardiff University in Wales uncovered one source of this squeamishness: Although studies of healthy sexuality are few and far between, there are more than 5,000 published studieslinking autism to inappropriate behavior such as stalking, public fondling or sexual obsessions.