The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover it… - Freda Adler

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

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Freda Adler (born 1934) is an American criminologist, educator and Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, who published in a variety of criminological areas, including female criminality, international issues in crime, piracy, drug abuse, and social control theories.

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