Quotes About Taboo

Sometimes my jokes are meant to be tasteless.

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

The '50s were a secretive time.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat

The Nude Male was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and was largely full of pictures of Greek vases, which hadn't been considered rude since Queen Victoria died.

The only good drugs are illegal drugs.

People talk about anal sex as though it's the be-all and end-all of gay identity.

whore's drawers

Sexual intercourse beganIn nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)—Between the end of the Chatterley banAnd the Beatles' first LP.

Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation')

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

I have often said that domestic violence is characterised by silence: of the abused, of the abuser and of those who don't know how to intervene. But the media have the ability to break this corrosive silence: bringing us the voices of victims; shattering the taboo; and raising awareness of what we can all do to stop this heinous crime.

I have always had a longing to talk about this Nazi period because my parents' generation wouldn't talk about it after the war at all. From an actor's point of view, it's amazing to play in one year the Nazi Albert Speer and Claus von Stauffenberg.

I know that India is very sensitive to nudity.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Crime is sexy.

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about.

He said hurting people was better than sex.