Usually, the people who engage in such othering in fact don't have such taboo desires. That why they other it. Most people have no sexual attraction to children -- or donkeys or footwear, or any of a long list of unusual objects of sexual arousal.
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It prophylactically implies that those who engage in such
> Othering do not
> have taboo desires.