title: Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor
author:  Marcia Pally 
description: Professor Marcia Pally teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and is a permanent Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2010 and has been awarded the German Research Foundation's prestigious Mercator Guest Professorship (The German Research Foundation is roughly the equivalent of the National Institutes for the Humanities). Additionally, she is the co-recipient of a German Research Foundation research grant to compare the political ethics and activism of American and German evangelicals, has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2007 and 2010.<br />In addition to her academic work, Prof. Pally has been a columnist in the U.S. and Europe for over 20 years, writing for The New York Times, Telos journal, Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Sudduetsche Zeitung, Merkur, Tageszeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau, among other periodicals.
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  # This World Is Taboo
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Murray Leinster
  
  
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  The little Med Ship came out of overdrive and the stars were strange
  
  
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  But Calhoun grunted in satisfaction. There was a banded sun