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Taboo

Rules of the Stain

From activities that women in various parts of the world are forbidden to perform while menstruating, as compiled by Anna Dahlqvist in It’s Only Blood. The book was published in…

Red Light Therapy

by Adam Phillips,

By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books.

The sex taboo at Puka-Puka

by Robert Dean Frisbie,

Literary notes

by Laurence Hutton,

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