Quotes About Taboo

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his body as rhythmically and erotically and seductively as a woman--that was the forbidden territory he had entered. It was not only repulsive and offensive--it was nauseating--the word most used. It was an attack on male dignity. The kids, however, not yet grown into the stereotypes of gender, saw in him an exhilarating physical freedom.

To cure epilepsy, doctors concocted recipes of dried human heart or made a potion of wine, lily, lavender, and an entire adult brain, which weighed about three pounds. Human fat was used to treat consumption, rheumatism, and gout. Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man—a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.

Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man—a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.

Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

L'oscenità, concluse, non è estranea alla buona letteratura e l'arte vera del racconto, se pure passa il limite della decenza, non è mai scabrosa.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

All writing is filth

I get paid large sums of money to kill children.

evil< is also just another word for >toilet<

Wie van jullie is aan de pil, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie heeft een geslachtsziekte, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie is vandaag op het schoolplein in de reet geneukt, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken.

Moldy dildo sleeping/Adam's new nickname is moldy dildo

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today.

One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.