Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Sexes: Attacking the Last Taboo
Researchers are lobbying against the ban on incest
Sex researchers love to shock the public. Trouble is, the public is becoming more and more difficult to shock, and researchers are running out of myths to attack. Perhaps that accounts for the latestand what may be the most reprehensible yettrend in the field: well-known researchers and a few allies in academe are conducting a campaign to undermine the strongest and most universal of sexual proscriptions, the taboo against incest.
Most of the chipping away at the taboo is still cautious and limited. Says John...
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