Taboo. Part I

I want to talk now about taboo. No, I'm not talking about "taboo" the porn category... :)))

The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives the following definitions on the term:
1. "forbidden to profane use or contact because of what are held to be dangerous supernatural powers"
2. "banned on grounds of morality or taste <the subject is taboo>"

Also there is lots more info on the subject out there, you can check it out if you feel I'm bulshiting. In any case I'm just going to state some personal opinions on the matter so if you don't agree that's your issue. On the other hand, if you don't agree, what the flying fuck are you doing browsing a porn site and reading a a porn model's blog?

Taboo is one of the older and more established of societies bad habits. Of course, it had it's uses in the beginning. First used to regulate things a wise ancient leader could not plainly explaining to his rather stupid followers, things like i****t, overpopulation etc., the taboo has managed to be an insidious and nasty part of our lives to this very day. Being a spiritual and social leader 2000 years ago, you wouldn't know where to start explaining stuff like the genetics of i****tual relations to your people because the subject was quite unclear to yourself. Being slightly smarter than the next guy, you realized that bad stuff happens if people start having c***dren with their parents, but that was about the whole extent of your knowledge. So you used taboo! You told your people that fucking around with relatives will gravely upset the gods, mother nature and the universe. You told them not to even talk about it, because, you know, talking about stuff makes it seem less scary, even doable. And they believed you because you were the Wise Old Man .

The taboo is a very powerful tool. Once the ban on a subject is securely in place it stays there for a really long time - thousands of years even, regardless of the general evolution of society. If the subject is considered so bad and harmful that people aren't even allowed to speak about it, it gets warped in an aura of fear, a dreadful mystery that will bite you even if you only think about it. With terrifying efficiency the taboo grips a human mind and strips it of it's ability to think, to use logic. Thus society as a whole is made safe from deviations and bad genetics. As proof of this, you might notice that some words were censored out of this blog post! :))) I hope you guys can figure them out...

Of course, that was just fine and dandy back in the day, but now, in the modern society with it's laws, rules and information available everywhere, the old taboo has lost it's purpose... but not it's power! Right now, in many parts of the world, it is forbidden to eat certain things, talk about things and so on and so forth, solely for religious or mystical reasons. And I'm not talking about the Islamic world - I know that's the hot topic right now, but Islamic extremism is just the visible tip of the iceberg. This sanctioned mentality is available in most parts of the world, yes, even in Europe and North America. I know this from personal experience (and I won't give away any more details for obvious privacy reasons).

I'll take Eastern Europe as an example. In most rural and even some urban areas of the eastern European countries, the subject of sex is very fucking taboo. Even more than murder! If there's a murder, it's the talk of the village, but if there's a ****... nobody talks of it, the police avoid it like the plague and efforts are made to keep it out of the press. And the girl is usually considered the guilty party - but that's a discussion on patriarchal societies and I'll talk on that subject another time. In these rural communities sex is something not to be discussed under most circumstances. People grow up not being able to talk to their parents about it - if they try, their attempts meet with silence or punishment. SexEd is absent in school, and thus the individuals are forced to learn about this stuff by whatever means they find, that is if they wish to learn about it. This gives the subject of sexuality a deep aura of fear. It is something so dreadful that one's not even allowed to think about it, let alone speak! People grow up and some leave their native places but the taboo sticks with them. Even if they learn stuff, enjoy life, work, get into romantic relationships, sex will always be a little terrifying for them. They'll tell themselves that it's something intimate, to be done with your partner, alone, in your bedroom, but deep down in their minds these people will always find sex a little disgusting, a vile little necessity that's to be done as seldom as possible. Of course these opinions and effects vary from male to female (girls are generally more scared of sex than boys) and among different types of persons. Just take a moment to think about what a society like this would do to somebody who openly does porn online...

Well, that's all I have time to write right now. I'll continue on the subject as soon as possible.
Thanks for reading and, as usual, feel free to express opinions in the comments!