| 00:00:00 | eat.
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| 00:00:03 | >> NARRATOR: Sexual contact
between workers was strictly
forbidden.
|
| 00:00:07 | >> MIN: Mao never teach about
love.
|
| 00:00:09 | Love does not exist, until one
day they are 29 years old and
the government says Comrade Lee
is a good comrade, Comrade Wah
is a good comrade, so two of you
get together and you're married,
and they give you a couple of
candies, and that's marriage.
|
| 00:00:27 | >> NARRATOR: But Mao's effort to
eliminate the human sex drive
was doomed to failure, as Anchee
would soon learn.
|
| 00:00:35 | >> MIN: There was one girl
named Little Green, she sang
song, it's called "My
Motherland."
When she sang the song, it's
just so beautiful... and it
makes me so happy.
|
| 00:00:49 | >> NARRATOR: Little Green had a
secret-- she had fallen in love.
|
| 00:00:53 | >> MIN: She got in trouble,
because she was making out with
a man.
|
| 00:00:57 | And both of them arrested.
|
| 00:01:01 | >> NARRATOR: In Mao's work
camps, the consequences for
unauthorized sexual contact were
dire.
|
| 00:01:06 | >> MIN: This is how system
works-- they catch you, and
they work on the girl until the
girl says, "I was raped."
And the commander of the company
says, "What do we do with the
rapist?
|
| 00:01:19 | Shall we shoot him?"
So we have a witness, we have
the criminal, and he's gone.
|
| 00:01:25 | (gunshot)
>> NARRATOR: Little Green was
forced into isolation, forced to
cut her hair, forced to lose all
femininity.
|
| 00:01:37 | >> MIN: And after he's gone,
Little Green just couldn't take
it.
|
| 00:01:40 | She was the person responsible
for her boyfriend's death.
|
| 00:01:43 | So she'd gone mad.
|
| 00:01:46 | I was walking across the bridge,
and there was a boatman calling
down there, he said, "Somebody
come down, take a look."
This person drowned.
|
| 00:01:57 | And when I get down and the
boatman flipped the body, and I
saw it was Little Green.
|
| 00:02:04 | She'd never sing again.
|
| 00:02:08 | It started to work on me,
because when dating a man means
prosecution, humiliation, and a
bullet in the head for the
man, we learned a lesson not to
do that.
|
| 00:02:22 | >> NARRATOR: Later, Anchee
discovered that the company
leader who had sentenced Little
Green to death also had a
secret.
|
| 00:02:29 | >> MIN: I found my commander
after Little Green was
prosecuted, and all these things
started bothering her.
|
| 00:02:37 | And in the meantime, she was...
|
| 00:02:40 | fall in love with another man,
another company leader.
|
| 00:02:45 | And she had nobody to confide.
|
| 00:02:47 | And when I became her friend,
she start confiding in me that
she was thinking about a man.
|
| 00:02:56 | I was thrilled.
|
| 00:02:57 | I thought that she must really
trust me, because if I tell
anybody, she could be
prosecuted.
|
| 00:03:03 | So that was the biggest trust
that she had in me.
|
| 00:03:08 | >> NARRATOR: Anchee decided to
help her write a letter to the
man.
|
| 00:03:11 | >> MIN: My life all of a sudden
became very fulfilled.
|
| 00:03:14 | In the rice... boring rice
paddy... all day my mind was
thinking about that mission to
deliver the letter.
|
| 00:03:23 | So I delivered this letter to
the company leader, the man.
|
| 00:03:27 | He didn't respond.
|
| 00:03:28 | Because he was the leader, he
would risk everything, he
would risk his life to respond,
he decide not to.
|
| 00:03:36 | Then I come back, facing my
boss.
|
| 00:03:40 | What do I say?
|
| 00:03:42 | So I start make up stories.
|
| 00:03:44 | I say, "The man is interested in
you.
|
| 00:03:47 | He read the letter, he wants to
"write back, but he couldn't.
|
| 00:03:50 | He wants me to say... he has
the same feelings."
So she start to ask me to do
more, and I have to make up more
stories.
|
| 00:04:01 | Sometimes we were so cold we
have to share blankets.
|
| 00:04:06 | So it was normal for the girls
to share the blankets.
|
| 00:04:09 | So I shared blankets with her.
|
| 00:04:11 | >> NARRATOR: The two women were
engaging in a play that went
beyond a simple friendship.
|
| 00:04:16 | >> MIN: Eventually, she says, "I
want to be kissed by him.
|
| 00:04:21 | I wonder what it's like to be
kissed by him."
I felt that I must continue to
play the role.
|
| 00:04:28 | So I said, "I pretend I'm your
boyfriend.
|
| 00:04:33 | So you kiss me like you kiss
him."
So she kissed me.
|
| 00:04:39 | I was very confused.
|
| 00:04:41 | (laughs)
I did not know if I was myself
and... or I was the boyfriend.
|
| 00:04:48 | And I kind of liked the kiss.
|
| 00:04:54 | It actually very frustrating.
|
| 00:04:57 | You are very turned on, but then
you can't really consummate.
|
| 00:05:02 | It was like exploring in the
dark.
|
| 00:05:06 | I was committing a crime.
|
| 00:05:09 | I could get shot if caught.
|
| 00:05:11 | But it makes me feel so
wonderful and happy as a human
being that I had this little
drop of rain in the drought, and
I realized that the people in
the ten labor camps, 100,000
youths just around me, they were
deprived from that.
|
| 00:05:30 | >> NARRATOR: Today Anchee is a
successful author and lives in
America.
|
| 00:05:34 | Millions of other Chinese
perished during the Maoist Era.
|
| 00:05:38 | >> MIN: When men and women are
not... allowed to satisfy their
basic human needs, life was not
worth living.
|
| 00:05:51 | (car horn honks)
>> NARRATOR: Anchee's love was
suppressed by tyranny-- but
what happens when the nature of
love goes against the very
essence of what is accepted by
community?
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love with my daughter.
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| 00:10:20 | >> NARRATOR: The bonobo
chimpanzee is an endangered
species that is known, among
other things, for its habit of
having sex with its immediate
family members.
|
| 00:10:29 | Among humans, such behavior is
almost universally taboo.
|
| 00:10:33 | >> BILL JANKOVIAK: We are all
biologically prone to have
sexual desires for one another
and the only thing that prevents
any human beings from not
wanting to have sex with their
parents or their close sibs is
the rule of "thou shall not."
>> NARRATOR: Over 3,000 years
ago, the Bible laid out a
long list of sexual relations
that were off limits.
|
| 00:10:54 | >> "None of you shall approach
anyone near of kin to uncover
nakedness, your father... your
mother... your father's wife...
|
| 00:11:02 | your sister,.. your brother's
wife..."
>> NARRATOR: But incest has
happened time and again
throughout history, especially
among the ruling classes.
|
| 00:11:12 | Brother-sister marriages were a
custom of the Egyptian pharaohs.
|
| 00:11:16 | Ptolemy II, ruler of Egypt,
married his sister.
|
| 00:11:20 | Ramses II married eight times,
not only his sisters, but some
of his daughters.
|
| 00:11:25 | Roman Emperor Caligula had
incestuous affairs with both of
his sisters.
|
| 00:11:30 | Napoleon abolished the French
penal code for incest in 1810,
supposedly to clear the way to
consummating his own desires.
|
| 00:11:40 | Modern research has shown that
deep psychological triggers can
drive some people to commit
incest.
|
| 00:11:46 | >> FISHER: We really are
naturally drawn to people from
our same socioeconomic
background, same general level
of intelligence, same general
level of good looks, same
religious and social values and
same level of education.
|
| 00:11:59 | >> NARRATOR: In 1897,
sociologist Edward Westermarck
began the first scientific
study of incest.
|
| 00:12:05 | >> JANKOVIAC: What Westermarck
wanted to know--
why did we not find incest more
common throughout the world?
|
| 00:12:14 | Was it because of cultural
taboos or was it because human
beings had evolved a natural
prevention device that made them
not want to have sex with close
biological kin?
|
| 00:12:28 | >> NARRATOR: Westermarck's
studies showed children
who were raised separately often
had sexual feelings for one
another as adults, but
if children spent several years
growing up together, those
feelings disappeared.
|
| 00:12:40 | >> FISHER: At some point between
ages three and six, we acquire a
natural revulsion towards having
sex with somebody who we know
very well.
|
| 00:12:50 | If you ask a girl why she
doesn't want to copulate with
her brother, she's gonna say,
"Oh no, he's too fat, he's too
dumb, he plays his music too
"loud.
|
| 00:12:58 | Why would I want a boy like
that?"
>> NARRATOR: War breaks families
apart.
|
| 00:13:04 | It also reunites estranged
relatives.
|
| 00:13:07 | The results can be explosive.
|
| 00:13:10 | (explosion)
Kevin Rohm made national
headlines when he was wounded
in Iraq.
|
| 00:13:17 | An ex-girlfriend thought she
recognized him, and made
contact.
|
| 00:13:20 | >> KEVIN ROHM: She wrote me and
asked me if I was the same
person that she dated back in
1974.
|
| 00:13:28 | Her second e-mail came and said
"I have a surprise for you.
|
| 00:13:32 | I think my daughter is your
daughter."
my response to her was, "I'll
go ahead and write her.
|
| 00:13:38 | Give me her e-mail address."
>> MICHELLE ROHM: He basically
said, "I suppose you know who I
am by now.
|
| 00:13:44 | "Your mom has probably already
told you."
>> KEVIN: We probably
wrote over 500 e-mails to each
other.
|
| 00:13:51 | >> MICHELLE: We would write, and
we would communicate our likes,
our dislikes, what our favorites
are, what our, you know,
non-favorites are.
|
| 00:13:58 | We understood each other
very quickly.
|
| 00:14:00 | >> KEVIN: She liked the same
things I liked.
|
| 00:14:02 | >> MICHEE: Our favorite
colors from when we were young
were the same.
|
| 00:14:05 | As we grew up into adults they
morphed into the same.
|
| 00:14:08 | >> KEVIN: She likes sci-fi.
|
| 00:14:09 | I like sci-fi.
|
| 00:14:10 | >> MICHELLE: We enjoy scary
movies, but not gore movies.
|
| 00:14:14 | >> KEVIN: It would be easier to
name the things we don't share
in common.
|
| 00:14:18 | >> NARRATION: It was Kevin who
first realized that their
relationship was out of the
ordinary.
|
| 00:14:26 | >> KEVIN: I felt myself becoming
obsessed with her.
|
| 00:14:30 | I couldn't stand a day where
I couldn't talk to her.
|
| 00:14:34 | I had to write her constantly.
|
| 00:14:37 | I found myself falling in
love... with my daughter.
|
| 00:14:41 | It scared me a little bit.
|
| 00:14:44 | I really didn't know if this
was the way it was supposed to
be or not; this was my first
experience having an adult
child come into my life.
|
| 00:14:55 | And so I just simply assumed
that this was the way it
normally was supposed to be.
|
| 00:15:00 | >> NARRATOR: And by the time
they were ready to meet, the
expectations had become
bizarre.
|
| 00:15:06 | >> KEVIN: Michelle made
arrangements to come visit her
new family.
|
| 00:15:11 | >> MICHELLE: As I approached
down the ramp, and saw him,
the feelings that I'd had five
minutes ago had started to
change as I approached him.
|
| 00:15:22 | I could see him visually.
|
| 00:15:24 | And the closer I got, the more
the feelings changed.
|
| 00:15:28 | >> KEVIN: I threw my arms
around her.
|
| 00:15:30 | I gave her a hug.
|
| 00:15:31 | >> MICHELLE: As we embraced, I
felt that there was a certain
comfort.
|
| 00:15:37 | >> KEVIN: And it all felt so
awkward, too, at the same time.
|
| 00:15:41 | >> MICHELLE: I found myself
having thoughts and feelings
about Kevin that weren't what I
would consider appropriate.
|
| 00:15:51 | And this terrified me.
|
| 00:15:53 | >> NARRATOR: Kevin and Michelle
first met 12 months ago.
|
| 00:15:56 | It has been a long struggle for
them to come to terms with
their feelings.
|
| 00:16:01 | >> KEVIN: Hi, baby!
|
| 00:16:02 | >> MICHELLE: When I become in
his proximity I feel the need
to procreate.
|
| 00:16:09 | >> KEVIN: It was like I was
turned back into a 17-year-old
kid, with... constantly aroused.
|
| 00:16:15 | >> MICHELLE: It felt shameful,
it felt guilty, so much so that
I called my therapist.
|
| 00:16:22 | And the counselor's advice was
that if he is indeed your
parent you really should
confront him with what's going
on.
|
| 00:16:31 | Because the last thing that you
want is for this emotion to grow
too big for you to handle.
|
| 00:16:35 | I advised him of these most
unsavory thoughts and feelings
that I was having toward him,
and I expressed that I would
hope that they would eventually
evolve into the love that
a daughter should have for her
father.
|
| 00:16:48 | But the response I got back
from him was not the one
I thought I was going to get.
|
| 00:16:53 | >> KEVIN: In the moment, I let
her know how I felt, too.
|
| 00:16:59 | >> NARRATOR: Talking to each
other about their feelings is
very difficult for Kevin and
Michelle.
|
| 00:17:04 | >> MICHELLE: I hope they're just
doing image shots because I
don't know what we're supposed
to be talking about.
|
| 00:17:08 | >> NARRATOR: And talking in
front of the media is even more
uncomfortable.
|
| 00:17:46 | >> NARRATOR: Kevin and Michelle
have decided to resolve their
predicament.
|
| 00:17:50 | But their solution is a
surprising one.
|
| 00:17:52 | >> MICHELLE: We absolutely
cannot keep doing this to
ourselves. vodka.
|
| 00:21:38 | The parisol is the rum.
|
| 00:21:39 | The Angelica, Juniper, Corriander and other
select ingredients...
|
| 00:21:42 | culminating in a taste that everyone can
describe but no one can identify...
|
| 00:21:47 | is the Tanqueray.
|
| 00:21:49 | Tanqueray Gin. Resist Simple.
|
| 00:21:51 | Drink Responsibly.
|
| 00:22:30 | >> NARRATOR: Kevin and Michelle
Rohm, father and daughter who
found themselves on the verge
of an incestuous relationship,
have to make decisions about
their future.
|
| 00:22:38 | >> MICHELLE: So here we are,
I'm lost and confused having
all kinds of conflicting
emotions.
|
| 00:22:44 | And he is being no help because
he's in the same boat that I am.
|
| 00:22:48 | >> KEVIN: If you've ever felt a
crush on someone, or
whatever, this was 20 times more
powerful.
|
| 00:22:54 | It was the same feelings, but it
was much more intense.
|
| 00:22:57 | >> MICHELLE: If we want the
relationship that I've wanted
for so long as a father-daughter
then we absolutely
cannot keep doing this to
ourselves.
|
| 00:23:06 | >> NARRATOR: Kevin and Michelle
are taking a tip from the 19th-
century incest researcher Edward
Westermarck: They plan to stamp
out their passion by living
closer to one another.
|
| 00:23:16 | >> KEVIN: If I can be with my
daughter daily, hopefully
within about six to seven years,
Westermarck will kick in and
we'll be able to realize what
it is to really be father and
daughter.
|
| 00:23:28 | >> MICHELLE: We're still
teaching ourselves.
|
| 00:23:30 | And he and I both still
understand that we're respecting
each other's boundaries.
|
| 00:23:35 | It's gonna be a learning
process.
|
| 00:23:37 | >> NARRATOR: Kevin and Michelle
are not alone.
|
| 00:23:39 | In the past decade, there have
been countless cases of incest
between estranged parents and
children, and between brothers
and sisters who grew up
separately.
|
| 00:23:49 | >> KEVIN: 50 years ago, being
gay was a curse.
|
| 00:23:53 | Having incestual feelings for
somebody close to you is a curse
today.
|
| 00:24:00 | >> MICHELLE: Hopefully someday
in the future another person
will find this and say
"Oh," and "Wow," and
"Interesting," and "I'm not
the only one," and hopefully
that will help them.
|
| 00:24:12 | >> NARRATOR: New York, 1820.
|
| 00:24:14 | A time of intense religious
revivalism.
|
| 00:24:17 | A 14-year old boy by the name
of Joseph Smith Jr. was
struggling to find a
congregation that shared his
beliefs.
|
| 00:24:24 | One day Joseph had a vision in
which he came face to face with
God, who told him that none of
the churches were right for him.
|
| 00:24:31 | >> JANKOVIAC: In the early 19th
century there was a tremendous
religious upheaval in America.
|
| 00:24:37 | The traditional churches were
being challenged.
|
| 00:24:40 | >> NARRATOR: Later Joseph
records another vision of an
angel, Morona, who helps him
find sacred scriptures buried in
the family farm.
|
| 00:24:49 | The translation of the texts
later becomes the Book of
Mormon.
|
| 00:24:53 | By the time Joseph is 24, he
has his own church, a growing
congregation ready to believe
him and his visions.
|
| 00:25:00 | >> JANKOVIAC: Somewhere during
that time Joseph Smith had
a revelation.
|
| 00:25:04 | He said that in order to be
saved, everyone had to take
more than one wife.
|
| 00:25:11 | >> NARRATOR: Polygamy, or
marriage to multiple spouses
simultaneously, has cropped up
in several cultures throughout
history.
|
| 00:25:19 | It is still common in Africa
and parts of Asia.
|
| 00:25:23 | Even in the Hebrew bible,
Abraham is married to three
wives.
|
| 00:25:28 | But to introduce polygamy as a
new divine dictum in
mid-19th century America was
asking for trouble.
|
| 00:25:36 | >> JANKOVIAC: Other Christian
groups reacted with hostility.
|
| 00:25:40 | It was proof, for many people,
that this really was not God's
religion, but the Devil's
religion.
|
| 00:25:46 | >> NARRATOR: In 1844, a posse
stormed a jail where Joseph
Smith was being held.
|
| 00:25:52 | He was shot dead as he tried to
escape through a window.
|
| 00:25:55 | He left 33 widows behind, and a
large congregation of polygamous
families.
|
| 00:25:59 | >> JANKOVIAC: After the Civil
War, the American federal
government was so appalled by
this practice they thought they
had to save Mormon women.
|
| 00:26:08 | >> NARRATOR: The next prophet,
Brigham Young, led the Mormons
to a safe, isolated area in
Utah, and to safeguard the
church from persecution,
denounced polygamy.
|
| 00:26:19 | >> JANKOVIAC: Eventually, by
the early 1920s, the next
generation of descendants had
completely rejected polygamy.
|
| 00:26:26 | That being said, there were
some who went back to these
scriptures, and they decided
they had an obligation to
reintroduce the more perfect
form of Mormonism-- fundamental
Mormonism.
|
| 00:26:45 | >> NARRATOR: Today, the
remaining fundamentalist Mormons
are pushed to the fringes of
civilization.
|
| 00:26:50 | Like here, near Concho,
Arizona, 200 miles east of
Phoenix.
|
| 00:27:01 | >> MORONI: Time to get the kids
going.
|
| 00:27:03 | Come on, wake up.
|
| 00:27:06 | It's time to get ready.
|
| 00:27:08 | Sophie, it's time to get up.
|
| 00:27:11 | Wake up.
|
| 00:27:12 | It's time to go to school.
|
| 00:27:13 | Come on.
|
| 00:27:14 | Morning.
|
| 00:27:16 | >> NARRATOR:Moroni and Martha
Jessop have been married for 16
years.
|
| 00:27:21 | They have seven children.
|
| 00:27:23 | >> MARTHA: I was 18 when I met
Moroni, but he was just my
friend.
|
| 00:27:26 | (laughs)
I had no idea that I would fall
in love with him.
|
| 00:27:33 | >> MORONI: Well, Martha and I
decided that we would live a
plural marriage but, you know, I
went through a whole year where
I couldn't even bring up the
subject to Martha.
|
| 00:27:44 | >> MARTHA: Polygamy was
practiced by the early Mormon
prophets.
|
| 00:27:49 | If you want to go back in
history to the Bibletimes, you
can see it in the Bible.
|
| 00:27:54 | >> NARRATOR: Five years into
his marriage with Martha,
Moroni married Temple.
|
| 00:27:59 | >> MORONI: Good morning,
sweetie.
|
| 00:28:01 | How did you sleep?
|
| 00:28:03 | We met, two months later we were
engaged, two months later we
were married.
|
| 00:28:07 | It was just a whirlwind.
|
| 00:28:09 | It was just a perfect fit, you
know, for our family.
|
| 00:28:12 | And I said, "Aha! I get it now.
|
| 00:28:14 | I know how to live this
lifestyle."
>> TEMPLE: I have a room and
she has a room, and he just
goes between the two rooms.
|
| 00:28:20 | He doesn't have a room.
|
| 00:28:21 | >> MARTHA: We do pretty much
stick to every other night.
|
| 00:28:25 | If one of us is mad at him, a
lot of times he'll end up on
the couch.
|
| 00:28:31 | >> TEMPLE: It's not that
complex.
|
| 00:28:33 | There are special circumstances.
|
| 00:28:35 | If one of us feels like we need
him more, then he'll change
nights.
|
| 00:28:40 | >> NARRATOR: The transition
into a polygamous marriage was
not easy for Martha.
|
| 00:28:44 | >> MARTHA: Well, I think there
is always jealousy because we're
human.
|
| 00:28:48 | I did have insecurities just
like any woman.
|
| 00:28:52 | >> MORONI: I realized, you know,
she's going to have a hard time,
and be jealous seeing me with
this other woman.
|
| 00:28:59 | And I realized that this was
kind of a little life lesson for
me, you know, on jealousy.
|
| 00:29:03 | >> MARTHA: 'Cause I'd had
Moroni to myself for a while,
I was not sure if he was going
to love me or view me the
same way as he did before.
|
| 00:29:14 | >> TEMPLE: I was in love,
starry-eyed.
|
| 00:29:17 | Everything was great.
|
| 00:29:18 | So I... I mean, that was my
adjustment.
|
| 00:29:20 | And I knew that's what the
Heavenly Father wanted for me,
so...
|
| 00:29:25 | >> MARTHA: We have to learn
that he still loves us, no
matter what.
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| 00:29:29 | If he's a good man, he's going
to bring his wives into this
with love for that wife, but
he's not going to love any of
us differently.
|
| 00:29:37 | >> MORONI: Come on, go sit at
the table.
|
| 00:29:39 | (all talking)
>> NARRATOR: The Jessops live
in a three-bedroom trailer.
|
| 00:29:45 | They have no running water or
electricity.
|
| 00:29:47 | The nearest town is 15 miles
away.
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| 00:29:50 | >> TEMPLE: This is Sophie's bed.
|
| 00:29:52 | Christian's bed.
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| 00:29:53 | The bottom bunk is Ethan's.
|
| 00:29:55 | >> MARTHA: Yeah, it's difficult.
|
| 00:29:57 | The four older kids share a
room, and then we've got kids
that are in bedrooms with us.
|
| 00:30:03 | >> TEMPLE: Well, ultimately,
we're responsible for our own
kids.
|
| 00:30:07 | >> MARTHA: But, I mean, there is
always helping out with each
other.
|
| 00:30:11 | Sometimes, Temple will come in
and dress my baby, or... or
sometimes, you know, just...
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done to get out the door.
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fine.
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| 00:30:22 | We want our kids to be close.
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every mother has their own
house, and the kids grow up
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and, "That's not my sister."
We don't want that.
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| 00:35:42 | >> MORONI: My name is Moroni
Lopez-Jessop.
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| 00:35:46 | Moroni: That I'm mormon.
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| 00:35:47 | I'm named after an angel in the
Book of Mormon.
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| 00:35:50 | Second, Lopez, that I'm Latino.
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| 00:35:53 | And Jessop, that I come from a
polygamous family.
|
| 00:35:56 | My father was a very important
figure in my life.
|
| 00:36:01 | And him entering polygamy is
hard to describe.
|
| 00:36:04 | He wound up getting
excommunicated from the Mormon
church.
|
| 00:36:06 | After that, the rest of the
family was excommunicated.
|
| 00:36:09 | After that, we basically just
associated with other people
who believed in polygamy like
we did.
|
| 00:36:18 | >> NARRATOR: Nowadays,
mainstream Mormons denounce
polygamists.
|
| 00:36:22 | There aren't many groups left
for the Jessops to associate
with.
|
| 00:36:26 | >> MARTHA: The biggest disadvantage is how
other people
look at you.
|
| 00:36:30 | You feel their animosity toward
you.
|
| 00:36:34 | >> MORONI: There's a culture of
paranoia that has cracked into
polygamist culture.
|
| 00:36:40 | It's only in recent years, you
know, recent decades that
polygamists have been put in
prison simply forbeing
polygamous.
|
| 00:36:48 | >> NARRATOR: Last time the
Arizona state troopers went to
arrest Mormon fundamentalists
for polygamy was in the 1950s.
|
| 00:36:54 | When the public saw how the
children were separated from
their parents, the protests
forced the law officials to
reunite the families.
|
| 00:37:03 | >> MORONI: Ethan, would you say
thblessing, please?
|
| 00:37:05 | >> Sure.
|
| 00:37:06 | Dear Kind Heavenly Father,
please bless the food, help it
to strengthen our body, bless
us, keep us safe.
|
| 00:37:13 | In the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
|
| 00:37:16 | ("Amen" all around)
>> NARRATOR: Shunned by other
communities, the Jessops find
solace in their own faith and
family, something Joseph Smith
would have been very familiar
with.
|
| 00:37:26 | >> MARTHA: I believe that we
can be as God.
|
| 00:37:30 | Honestly, I believe that God
was once like us, and that we
can attain what He has.
|
| 00:37:37 | >> MORONI: Heaven is not just
family, but heaven is the
presence of both male and
female, interconnected
inseparably, and so...
|
| 00:37:49 | >> NARRATOR: The Jessops pay a
price for their lifestyle.
|
| 00:37:52 | Even their neighbors are
suspicious of their every move.
|
| 00:37:59 | Their isolation may be the
reason for their decision to
increase the size of their
family yet again by adding a
third wife.
|
| 00:38:08 | >> MARTHA: We want someone
who's going to come in and say,
"We love this family for who
they are, and we will accept
them for who they are, and we
want to be part of this family."
>> MORONI: Come on out on the
porch.
|
| 00:38:21 | That's all right.
|
| 00:38:22 | >> TEMPLE: I think, more than
anything, I want her to be
willing to give 100% of herself,
just as we have, and we will
continue to do.
|
| 00:38:32 | >> MORONI: All right, everybody
looking right here.
|
| 00:38:34 | Stand up straight.
|
| 00:38:35 | Look at him.
|
| 00:38:36 | >> TEMPLE: Look over there.
|
| 00:38:37 | Be still.
|
| 00:38:39 | >> MARTHA: 'Cause I love Moroni
that much, and I believe that a
man needs to have more than one
wife.
|
| 00:38:45 | He will become more whole with
more wives, and so will I.
|
| 00:38:50 | >> MORONI: Very nice.
|
| 00:39:03 | >> NARRATOR: The courtesan.
|
| 00:39:05 | The scarlet woman.
|
| 00:39:07 | The harlot.
|
| 00:39:10 | The prostitute.
|
| 00:39:11 | She has many names and faces,
and the oldest and most
denounced profession on earth.
|
| 00:39:17 | In fifth century B.C., Greek
historian Herodotus wrote about
a "sacred prostitute" engaged
in a "shameful custom" in the
city of Babylon, near the
temple of Aphrodite.
|
| 00:39:31 | She was paid a silver coin for
her services.
|
| 00:39:34 | What Herodotus failed to record
was that the silver coin was
donated to the temple, not to
the woman, and that Babylonians
revered the "sacred
prostitutes" as high
priestesses who they believed
were able to generate abundance
and fertility by connecting
their bodies with the divine.
|
| 00:39:55 | At the same time, ancient
cultures in Mesopotamia, the
Far East, and especially India,
had their own versions of
"sacred prostitutes," who also
claimed that they were not
practicing sex, but channeling
divine energy.
|
| 00:40:10 | In India, this esoteric
tradition became known as
"tantra" after the introduction
of Buddhism in the sixth
century B.C.
|
| 00:40:19 | The precise historical origin
of tantra remains unclear.
|
| 00:40:24 | Every academic has his own
theory.
|
| 00:40:27 | >> LESSIN: According to the
Sumerians, people from the
Planet Niburu had high sexual
practices, where groups of
Sumerians would get together
and a couple that would make
love in a ritual way that
would raise the consciousness
of all of them.
|
| 00:40:44 | >> NARRATOR: Regardless of
tantra's origins, what remains
unchanged today are the claims
tantric masters make about its
purpose.
|
| 00:40:52 | To reach the divine, one must
manipulate and align energy
fields in one's body through
precise motions and rituals.
|
| 00:40:59 | The most powerful of these
energies happens to be sexual
in nature.
|
| 00:41:07 | Sexual arousal, therefore, is
not intended primarily for
pleasure, but for the
attainment of a higher level of
consciousness.
|
| 00:41:15 | With the rise of Christianity,
tantric practices became
associated with prostitution
and sin.
|
| 00:41:27 | For the modern-day tantric
practitioner, the line between
prostitution and sacred sexual
healing can never be crossed.
|
| 00:41:35 | Claire Rumore is a tantra
apprentice in Marin County,
California.
|
| 00:41:40 | Her mentor is Shivakti Shaktiva.
|
| 00:41:42 | >> SHAKTIVA: Hi, Claire.
|
| 00:41:43 | Come on in.
|
| 00:41:44 | >> RUMORE: Thank you.
|
| 00:41:47 | >> SHAKTIVA: What we're going to
do to begin is I'm going to be
sitting with you in Yab Yum.
|
| 00:41:54 | >> RUMORE: I always felt a
sexual energy in myself that I
wanted to embrace, but at times
I was taught that sexuality is
something that's taboo, and
it's best left to marriage, and
abstinence and there's just a
lot of conflicting messages.
|
| 00:42:09 | >> SHAKTIVA: Try and take the
breath a little slower.
|
| 00:42:15 | >> RUMORE: What excites me
about tantra is that in the
realm of tantra, there is a
feminine principle and a
masculine principle, and when
the feminine or masculine is
out of balance there can be
chaos.
|
| 00:42:29 | So when we begin to integrate
these energies, bring them
together, blend them, harmonize
them, then we're able,
individually, to live from a
centered place.
|
| 00:42:38 | It does happen that tantra is
mistaken as something explicitly
or exclusively sexual.
|
| 00:42:44 | In reality, when you trace
tantra back, it's much larger,
much broader spiritual practice
of which sexuality and
sensuality is a very tiny part.
|
| 00:43:00 | (moaning, breathing heavily)
>> NARRATOR: Claire wants to
take the next step in becoming
a professional sacred healer.
|
| 00:43:14 | For this, she will travel to
Sedona, where every year
tantric professionals meet and
train new initiates.
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| 00:48:06 | >> NARRATOR: Claire Rumore wants
to become a full-time sacred
sexual healer, dedicated to the
pure tantra tradition.
|
| 00:48:14 | She is driving 800 miles to
Sedona, Arizona, to attend a
conference of tantric masters.
|
| 00:48:22 | Baba Dez is considered one of
the foremost leaders of the
tantric community in America.
|
| 00:48:27 | >> DEZ: Sit right here.
|
| 00:48:28 | >> RUMORE: I'm very eager to
learn more about what tantra
is...
|
| 00:48:32 | >> DEZ: That's great.
|
| 00:48:33 | >> RUMORE: ...and how it can be
used to help other humans,
other men, other women, and
couples, bring the masculine
and the feminine into a healed
wholeness.
|
| 00:48:41 | >> DEZ: So here in Sedona we
have the School of Temple Arts.
|
| 00:48:44 | Not only do we teach a lot of
the ancient rituals, but we
also teach a lot of new
modalities and a lot of new
techniques that are more
directed toward what it is
that's happening in the modern
world...
|
| 00:48:57 | >> NARRATOR: Baba Dez offers
Claire a session to help her
become a full-fledged trainer.
|
| 00:49:02 | For Claire, this raises
questions about what she can
look forward to, where exactly
the line between sex and
healing really is.
|
| 00:49:10 | >> RUMORE: For tomorrow's
session, I have absolutely no
idea what to expect, what
techniques he'll be bringing in,
using, teaching.
|
| 00:49:18 | Probably not going to be open
to taking my clothes off in the
session.
|
| 00:49:23 | The tantra realm is new to me,
there is a lot to learn, so I
don't know right now.
|
| 00:49:27 | >> NARRATOR: At one of the
conference sessions, Claire
gets a feel for what she may
have to confront in her own
healing session.
|
| 00:49:34 | >> You can let that power shine.
|
| 00:49:37 | >> NARRATOR: 200 tantric
practitioners here are using
meditative techniques to enter
what they claim is divine
bliss, not sexual arousal.
|
| 00:49:46 | >> Sometimes it gets fun.
|
| 00:49:48 | Ift's weird, let it be weird,
it's okay.
|
| 00:49:52 | If it gets a little freaky,
that's okay, this is the place.
|
| 00:49:56 | It might get wild, it might get
fiery, your body may need to
shake.
|
| 00:50:02 | Take it deep for me now, take
it deep.
|
| 00:50:06 | >> NARRATOR: Before she meets
with Baba Dez, Claire has an
invitation from another tantric
master, Kenneth Ray Stubbs, to
practice her energy flows.
|
| 00:50:15 | This session will involve no
physical contact.
|
| 00:50:18 | >> STUBBS: So first we're gonna
tune into what some people
call the chakras.
|
| 00:50:21 | Bringing awareness to each
one of them.
|
| 00:50:23 | And what we're gonna be really
focusing on is our energies
merging.
|
| 00:50:27 | So we can tune into each other.
|
| 00:50:29 | Just bring your awareness to be
one with the energy in your
pelvic floor in the first
center in the first chakra.
|
| 00:50:35 | And now into the second one,
somewhere in the lower abdomen.
|
| 00:50:39 | And the fifth...
|
| 00:50:41 | and now the seventh somewhere
in the top of your head.
|
| 00:50:44 | Just be one with the energies
there.
|
| 00:50:48 | Extend the fibers.
|
| 00:50:50 | Resonate at the core.
|
| 00:50:53 | (exhales deeply)
If lovers can connect like this
energetically before they start
their physical lovemaking, then
it's gonna greatly intensify
because you are energetically
making love before they
physically touch.
|
| 00:51:05 | And then you build on top of
that the sexual arousal, the
sexual passion, and the sexual
orgasmic response.
|
| 00:51:12 | >> NARRATOR: Tantric
practitioners believe sexual
healing can take place without
any physical connection.
|
| 00:51:18 | This is important to Claire,
who wants to be sure her career
choice will not be mistaken for
prostitution.
|
| 00:51:25 | But for some women, this
distinction isn't as clear.
|
| 00:51:29 | This woman is caught between
two worlds: one legal, one not.
|
| 00:51:34 | She works for an escort agency,
and yet she is also a tantric
practitioner.
|
| 00:51:40 | She does not want her name
revealed.
|
| 00:51:43 | >> I think all of my childhood
and early experiences were
leading up to who I am now.
|
| 00:51:50 | I had a Catholic upbringing, and
sexuality really never entered
into the equation of life.
|
| 00:51:58 | Somewhere in my 20s, I had
taken a weekend tantra class.
|
| 00:52:02 | There is a major
misunderstanding around what
tantra is.
|
| 00:52:07 | For me, it's my spiritual
practice; it's how I choose to
live my life.
|
| 00:52:12 | So if I have a client that only
wants to have sex, I first try
to enlighten him and ask him if
he really understands the skills
needed in order to have
enlightened sex, or a more
powerful union with another
human being.
|
| 00:52:29 | >> NARRATOR: Shortly after
joining an escort agency, she
was arrested in a prostitution
sting.
|
| 00:52:35 | >> I look at that experience as
a wake-up call.
|
| 00:52:38 | The sex business isn't the true
place where I should be
working.
|
| 00:52:42 | I have to look for a more
holistic, accepting place of
sacred sexuality.
|
| 00:52:52 | >> NARRATOR: An accepting place
of sacred sexuality is also
what Claire is looking for, but
the next step in getting there
is causing her some anxiety.
|
| 00:53:01 | According to Baba Dez, she needs
to align her male sexual energy
to become a fully fledged
healer, but what this really
means remains to be seen.
|
| 00:53:13 | >> DEZ: There is that male
aspect in all people that has
emulated and role modeled the
unhealthy masculine, that is
very dominant and very
dominating.
|
| 00:53:23 | Turn to that side... and I'm
just going to spoon you.
|
| 00:53:28 | >> RUMORE: Okay.
|
| 00:53:29 | >> DEZ: Okay.
|
| 00:53:30 | Not many people have had the
reference point of what it feels
like to fall asleep in the
safety of their father's arms.
|
| 00:53:36 | Most women have never had
permission to explore a man's
body without the agenda of
having to pleasure him.
|
| 00:53:44 | The whole objective of this
exercise is for you to really
feel the body of man.
|
| 00:53:54 | Feel his loins.
|
| 00:53:56 | Feel right inside the thighs
there.
|
| 00:54:04 | >> RUMORE: The experience of
touching Dez's body was... was
profound, because there is a
distinct difference in the
sexual act.
|
| 00:54:13 | The difference is in the
intention.
|
| 00:54:15 | And when lovemaking, the
intention is for there to be a
sexual charge, for there to be
arousal, and in this
particular session, the
intention was to touch, and to
touch with love.
|
| 00:54:26 | >> DEZ: As you get this
reference point, now slowly lie
down next to me, and just go
ahead and close your eyes and
go inside.
|
| 00:54:37 | I've been praying for you to
show up on this planet.
|
| 00:54:44 | That divine goddess within both
of us.
|
| 00:54:50 | Mmm.
|
| 00:54:51 | What we did today is about that
aspect of the masculine that
is the healthy masculine, so
that bully aspect can retire.
|
| 00:55:02 | >> RUMORE: This trip to Sedona
has confirmed for me that I'm
on a path that is towards
becoming a healer for other
people in the realm of t
tantric, the sacred sensua the
sacred sexual.
|
| 00:55:14 | >> NARRATOR: The American
tantric community is small but
growing.
|
| 00:55:19 | Claire, and many others like
her, are searching for the path
to enlightened sexuality: an
ancient custom that remains as
misunderstood as it was when
Herodotus wrote about temple
prostitutes 2,500 years ago.
|
| 00:55:32 | >> RUMORE: There is quite a
distinction between
prostitution, which is body
focused, and the sacred
healing, sacred sexual healing
work, which involves the entire
body, mind, spirit, soul, heart.
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They are the city's
largest gang,
with a reputation for insanity.
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| 00:58:39 | >> The south side locos
are so unpredictable at times,
and they just don't care.
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| 00:58:43 | That's what makes them
a big threat to our mmunity.
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| 00:58:46 | >> I throw my hands,
I'll pull my pistol.
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| 00:58:47 | I don't give a fááá.
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| 00:58:51 | >> Oh, my deal was I always
pack a club.
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| 00:58:54 | I was just always gonna
represent.
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| 00:58:56 | >> narrator: JUSTIN BARBER--
Aka caveman--has been
banging with the locos
for more than 20 years.
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| 00:59:11 | >> I was in the game,
so I always had them around and
they were always hitting me up,
you know, we're gonna put y
on, we're gonna put you on.
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| 00:59:23 | >> narrator: CAVEMAN PACKS HEAT
And is not afraid to use it.
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| 00:59:27 | 32
in my shoe,
so I walked with a limp.
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| 00:59:34 | But I got pretty good
to where I could shoot
from 30 feet away
and hit a tree,
'cause I used to practice.
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| 00:59:43 | >> narrator: AND HE'LL DO
Anything to protect
his reputation.
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| 00:59:46 | >> If you disrespect me, I'm--
I'm gonna bring what I got
to show you that you
made a terrible mistake.
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| 00:59:54 | Whether I got to use
a plastic spoon or a--you know,
a butcher knife,
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