ABSTRACT
Since the first stage of puberty consists of physiological changes that presage the child’s sexuality as well as other potentialities, and because a basic sociological fact of sexual life is the incest taboo, the climax of inculcating the incest taboo in the child, as noted in the conclusion to chapter 3, has to take place early in the first stage of puberty. The rules of incest, however, are not only proscriptions; they are also implicit socio-cultural guides that govern the directions in which the indi vidual can or should move in seeking sexual liaison.
