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Quotes About Taboo

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Faggots are the great immoralists.
~ Jean Genet
You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.
~ Jeaniene Frost
You know Hitler? I like Hitler more than I like you, and I'm a Jew.
~ Jeff Strand
Grounding you obviously don't work. Neither does taking away your allowance. I guess the only punishment that'll teach you a good enough lesson is if you sleep with Gramma's corpse tonight.
~ Jeff Strand
why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And He doesn't want us to know. Whoever sees it or guesses it must die so as not to divulge the secret. Death is only the guard who protects God, the doorkeeper of the immense brothel that we call the universe.
~ Elie Wiesel
Didn't I tell you about her? She stuck her fingers in her vagina and then rubbed the stuff behind her ears. She said it made the men crazy." "That is so disgusting," Alice says. "I know." "God!" "I know." "Did you try it?" she asks. "Of course." "Did it work?" "Not for me.
~ Elizabeth Berg
This matter must never be spoken of again. We WASPs can apply that rule to anything—from a moment of awkwardness at the dinner table to a relative's suicide.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But let me explain my culture of origin to you, Angela, in case you have never been around White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. You need to understand that we have only one central rule of engagement, and here it is: This matter must never be spoken of again. We WASPS can apply this rule to anything -- from a moment of awkwardness at the dinner table to a relative's suicide. Asking no further questions is the song of my people.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe you remember...what a powerful impact the word fuck used to have in our society--back before everybody and thier children started saying it 10 times a day before breakfast
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.
~ Alfred Kinsey
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
~ Alfred Lansing
Many commentators argue that the justification of hostility and discrimination on grounds of culture rather than race is mostly a rhetorical ploy to get around the taboo against racism that has gradually been established, especially in Western liberal democracies. There is, they contend, a new 'cultural racism' that has increasingly supplanted an older biological racism. 'Islamophobia' has been identified as one of the most recent forms of this new racism.
~ Ali Rattansi
Masturbation is common, sex is a normal part of adult life, and we can talk about it without fear. By
~ Alice Dreger
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
~ Alice Miller
love's the dirtiest thing in the world
~ Alice Notley
I miss you. I'm having the best sex of my life and I don't have anyone to tell about it." "You're having the best...this driving instructor is he best." "You know what my feet are like, right?" "I try not to think about them, but yes." "Well, he sucks my toes." There was a momentary silence, and then Bronwyn let out a long-suffering sigh. "Okay...
~ Alisa Kwitney
Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
~ Alison Bechdel
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
~ Allen Wheelis
Les choses à ne pas dire ne sont pas forcément les choses sales, au contraire. Il faut toujours raconter des saletés qu'on a en soi : c'est sain, c'est gai, c'est tonique. Non, les choses à ne pas dire sont d'un autre ordre – et ne vous attendez pas à ce que je vous l'explique, puisque ce sont précisément des choses à ne pas dire.
~ Amelie Nothomb
You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?
~ Amanda Ashley
You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter. The band plays in nothing but tube socks hung over their cocks and sacks. They can make the socks swing like giant tittie tassels. You've never seen anything so sexy.
~ Amanda Boyden