Ian Lustick

International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

American Historian

Todd Solondz

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

American Writer

Tippi Hedren

Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

American Actress

Neena Gupta

Masaba has helped me break some taboos, like wearing off-white with white or sneakers with a fancy gown. She's given me the confidence to carry off stuff, which looks nice.

Indian Actress

Jimmy Barnes

I used to think anyone with abandonment issues was a waste of space. But you do need to get help. Blokes don't talk about those things. It's a taboo in the bloke world.

Scottish Musician

Stromae

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

Belgian Musician

Jon Scieszka

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

American Author

Ricky Williams

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

American Football Player

Rupi Kaur

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Canadian Poet

Amy Bloom

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Taboos vary widely between different societies. What's taboo in one culture may be normal in another.

Cultural Sensitivity

What is considered a taboo can change over time within the same culture.

Changing Norms

Taboos are often unspoken and assumed to be understood by members of a culture.

Implicit Understanding

Calling a topic taboo suggests avoiding it in polite conversation to prevent discomfort.

Conversation Caution

Labeling something as taboo can imply strong emotions and opinions on the topic.

Emotional Charge

To taboo something typically involves an expression of legal or formal prohibition.

Official Prohibition

Authorities or dominant cultural groups generally set and enforce taboos.

Power Dynamics

 that's when it gets really interesting. That's a subject that we want to dive into. And we've been surprised to find, as young parents, that there are almost more taboos around parenting than there are around sex. It's true. So like we said, the early years were really wonderful, but they were also really difficult.

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 fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely they are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live nowhere else in the world but in madagascar the local people have superstitions and taboos connected with nearly all their

Sir David Attenborough...

 It's a conversation that reflects the ideologies, mythologies, belief systems and taboos and so much more of the world in which it was made. But this is not to say that work from another age made to serve a particular function in that time is dead or has nothing to offer the modern viewer.

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 For example, theater scenery used to consist of large painted backdrops, raised and lowered by stagehands who would whistle to signal each other. Absentminded whistles from other people could cause an accident. But the taboo against whistling backstage still exists today,

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 But she does appear in people's dreams. What she tells them in those dreams is which animals to have a taboo for. She can, in many ways, be seen as a conservation spirit. She is telling certain people what to not eat, what wildlife species should be protected.

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 acupuncture as a labor of love even he once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for a textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe

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 someone with bipolar disorder and who is afraid of seeking treatment because of the stigma the taboo I've shared my journey now I dare you to learn more about bipolar disorder and mental illness and join me in speaking out thank you

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 Cho may be Taiwan's most highly respected chef and tonight he will host a very unusual dinner for some very special guests including several of taiwan's top food critics the dish he's chosen to prepare is so taboo it may be

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 to stuff I guess the attitude would be more taboo so your seventeen-year-old daughter comes home and says I want to tattoo my eyeballs dad what are you saying I'd be thrilled that she was discussing it in advance