Quotes About Taboo

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Death is treated like a taboo in our culture, and all medical efforts are directed toward fighting this law of nature. But perhaps there is a beautiful side of death. [...] Perhaps death is God's wabi-sabi.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.

One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.

While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure of prostitution, fornication adultery, or pornography.

And so there is nothing new in Thy Neighbor's Wife. Nor is there anything old.

It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.

The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.

Part of a comedian's entertainment value is that he can say things that normal people either can't or won't say.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

I can remember when the air was clean and the sex was dirty." -George Burns

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.

You don't know what it is to want a man, any man. I wish I could discover some respectable male prostitutes, like civil servants or university dons who do it in their spare time for a bit of pocket money, there must be such people.

There's nothing wrong with pornography. It's good for you. If politicians stuck to pornography the world wouldn't be in such a mess.

if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.

One did not need to be a believer to see the purpose in nature, the truth of so-called teleology, so taboo in science.

Sin embargo, debido a la censura de los últimos años, ponían parches negros sobre los senos desnudos y empleaban eufemismos para designar conceptos prohibidos, como aborto, culo y libertad.