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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation intergenerational intimacy: that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term sodomy: that's avoidance. My students don't know the word fornication at all: that's forgetfulness.