Word: taboos
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...Body Art Just a few years ago, tattoos were taboo for nice boys and girls. Today, John, a piercing-and-tattoo shop in Shanghai, does a thriving business supplying body art. "Some of our customers are suit-wearing types straight from the office," says Xing Haisong, owner of John. "Everyone has a wild nature in their heart, and now they feel more free to express it." Dad will be so impressed...
...those who practice sadomasochism--including those halting dabblers who tee-hee their way through spankings, hoping to paddle excitement into their marriage--know it's still taboo. (After all, if it weren't, it would lose its power to excite.) To reconcile the icons with the actual practice, I spent several weeks recently talking to SM practitioners around the U.S.--in New York City and San Francisco, yes, but also in North Carolina and New Mexico. Whether they were nervous novices or experienced dungeon masters leading some of the nation's 250 SM organizations, virtually all of them asked...
...China’s Wen Talks Trade, Reforms,” Dec. 11). As China rises as a global power, the U.S. gets more desperate to engage it. As a result, the survival of oppressed peoples such as Tibetans and Uighurs end up being treated as taboo subjects. From Burma to Palestine, from Tibet to East Turkistan, the weak live in fear while the strong smile knowingly at each other and sign pacts to stay out of each other’s business...
...book, Ka (Speak Up), was soon banned in both Bangladesh and the Indian province of West Bengali, and its unflinching treatment of taboo issues—especially women’s sexuality—angered many prominent Bangladeshi writers, government officials and Muslim fundamentalists...
...main issue that angered people, Nasrin explains, was her openness regarding the taboo...