Keyword Collection: Taboo Bearbeiten
- taboo means
- not allowed, under prohibition
- being restricted or protected by custom or by law
- taboos
- are based on cultural experiences of a society during history
- are created by culture created, politicians created laws
- have developed culturally from more basic instincts
- persisted from generation to generation often merely as a result of tradition
- derive often from religious beliefs and long-established traditional beliefs, social customs and emotional aversions
- have a protection element
- are a limitation of personal freedom
- are a kind of social pressure
- there are general taboos of a society and personal taboos (erection problems; pay for sex, homosexuality, age and death, personal income)
- the main problem with taboos is that you take over the opinion of other people
- topics that are delicate are not always taboos
- maybe a taboo is stated by the majority of a society
- maybe your taboo is not mine
- often it is difficult to make a distinction between law, etiquette and taboo
- breaking taboos
- allows people to talk about their emotions
- avoids many visits to psychiatrists
- avoids having to live 2 separate life’s
- makes it possible to live more honestly
- has do with changing society
- talking about a personal taboo with another person is often the first step for help
Taboos can include:
- Dietary restrictions (halal and kosher diets, religious vegetarianism, and the prohibition of cannibalism)
- Restrictions on sexual activities, gender roles and interpersonal relationships (sex outside of marriage, adultery, interreligious marriage, miscegenation, homosexuality, incest, bestiality, pedophilia, necrophilia and other paraphilias)
- Restrictions of bodily functions (burping, flatulence, defecation, urination, masturbation, nose picking, and spitting)
- Restrictions on state of genitalia (circumcision or sex reassignment)
- Restrictions on exposure of body parts (pornography and nudity)
- Taboos on illicit drugs, substance abuse and addictions to legal drugs such as alcohol (alcoholism)
- Restrictions on the use of offensive language also known as obscenity and vulgarity
Questions Bearbeiten
- What are the most significant taboos in society?
- What are the things you are not supposed to speak about?
- Do you think that universal taboos (i.e. existing independently of place and time) exist? If so, which ones?
- Why do taboos exist? Are they necessary? Shouldn't we try to break them to be free?