Quotes About Taboo

Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.

The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone .

Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Oh shit! Can you say 'fuck' in a graveyard or will it jinx you with the undead?

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.

Moreover, the Beast 666 adviseth that all children shall be accustomed from infancy to witness every type of sexual act, as also the process of birth, lest falsehood fog, and mystery stupefy, their minds, whose error else might thwart and misdirect the growth of their subconscious system of soul-symbolism.

There once was a woman name of Sil, Who inserted a lit dynamite stick for a thrill. They found her vagina in North Carolina- And bits of her tits in Brazil.

BDSM gives us permission to act in ways that are unacceptable in the outside world

Topping, like bottoming, gives us permission to explore energies that are not OK in the outside world

centuries of censorship have left us with very little adequate language with which to discuss the joys and occasional worries of sex.

and isn't embarrassment one of those hot forbidden emotions we love to play with?

Many of us find that the more we play, the closer we want to come to the gray area between "enough" and "too much," between consent and nonconsent. These desires may grow so strong that we feel that we're craving genuinely nonconsensual play – that we really do want to kidnap a stranger or whip a slave or punish a child.