Talk:Warren Farrell

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Please move the quotations to wikiquote.100110100 09:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of edit

The section on incest has been removed; it is reproduced in full below. Dr. Farrell has written six books; none of them deal with incest. He has produced more than a hundred articles; none of them involved the topic. You will find nothing about it in his other biographies.

I had already removed the third quotation from the section. It has been contended that the quotation was a misprint, and the quotation itself continues to be used in a libelous manner; under Wikipedia policy, it must be removed immediately.

That three of his eight quotations should involve incest is an offense to Wikipedia and their standards of encyclopedic credibility. Unless the quotation section is to be radically expanded, the topic should not even be mentioned in this article, as it gives a wildly unbalanced view of his ethos and career.

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[edit] Incest: The Last Taboo, Penthouse Magazine, December 1977

"Girls are much more influenced by the dictates of society and are more willing to take on sexual guilt."

"In a society where men are powerful and exploitive and insensitive to women's feelings, which is reinforced by female adaptiveness and a daughter's lack of power, data like these can be used as an excuse for the continuation and magnification of that exploitation. When I consider that, I almost don't want to write the book."

". . . because millions of people who are now refraining from touching, holding, and genitally caressing their children, when that is really a part of a caring, loving expression, are repressing the sexuality of a lot of children and themselves. Maybe this needs repressing, and maybe it doesn't. My book should at least begin the exploration."