Examples of Taboo

A taboo is an activity that is forbidden or sacred based on religious beliefs or morals. Breaking a taboo is extremely objectionable in society as a whole. Around the world, an act may be taboo in one culture and not in another.

Examples of Taboo Activities

• Abortion - terminating a pregnancy
• Addiction - addiction to legal or illegal drugs, including alcoholism
• Adultery - sexual intercourse with someone other than your spouse
• Bestiality or Zoophilia - sexual relations between a human and an animal
• Bigotry - speaking negatively about someone of another race
• Blood products - Jehovah Witnesses are forbidden to use blood products, including blood transfusions
• Cannibalism - a human being eating the flesh of another human being
• Circumcision - this is practiced by Jews for religious reasons
• Flowers - giving an even number of flowers is taboo in Russia because they are for the dead
• Fornication - sexual relations between people not married to one another
• Gestures - certain gestures are considered obscene
• Head position - in Indonesia, it is taboo to have your head higher than an elder person
• Homosexuality - sexual attraction or relations with people of the same gender
• Illegal drugs - using or abusing illegal drugs
• Incest - sexual relations between relatives. Different cultures have different definitions of how close a relative would be considered taboo.
• Infanticide - killing an infant
• Intermarriage - marriage between people who are closely related 
• Inter-religion marriage - marriage between people of different religions 
• Masturbation - manipulation of one’s own genitalia
• Matricide - killing one’s mother
• Miscegenation - sexual relations or marriage between different racial groups.
• Murder - considered taboo unless in war or self-defense
• Necrophilia - sexual attraction or intercourse with a corpse
• Offensive language - obscenity or vulgarity
• Patricide - killing one’s father
• Pedophilia - having a sexual interest in prepubescent children
• Polygamy - having more than one spouse at the same time
• Pornography - showing body parts for sexual excitement
• Pregnant bride - this was a forbidden topic of conversation
• Sex selective abortion - terminating a pregnancy based on gender, usually female
• Sex selective infanticide - killing an infant based on gender, usually female
• Slavery - humans are treated as property and made to work for no pay
• Suicide - the taking of one’s own life
• Wearing shoes inside - in some places, shoes are not worn inside a house

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A drug is seen as taboo or not depends on the purpose for which it is being used. The same drug may be used to gain pleasure (by drug addicts) or for therapeutic effects (in medical setting). The former is seen as taboo while the latter is not. Also the degree to which a drug is seen as taboo depends on how common the drug is being used by people in society; for example - Nicotine is most commonly used drug in society whereas as heroine (smack) is less common, thus the latter is considered more taboo than former. It is like defining abnormal behaviour- the more common behaviour in society is seen as normal while the less common is seen as abnormal.

More than a taboo they are very normalized. Drugs both legal and illegal. It is very common to meet your friends regularly for a beer, it is fine from time to time but ... when do you know if that has become an addiction? as it is increasingly common to see teenagers smoking joints, first for fun, curiosity, or simply to join the peer group, then it becomes vice. We should not demonize the drug so much, but EDUCATE and show how dangerous they are, so that children reflect and come alone to the conclusion that getting into that world is dangerous and that they can have fun in many other ways.