What is Taboo to You? Where do Taboos come from and how do they function in your erotic imagination?



Even the word “taboo” has a fascinating cultural history to explore!



Join us on this free podcast episode to explore the thrills of transgressing taboos, discovering what happens when we speak the unspeakable, find connection rather than shame, demystify and remystify the erotic, and perhaps even restore sacred respect to what has been blasphemed.



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Taboo & You was also a topic for our 12th Pleasure Salon, held at Unicorn Bar in Kingston NY! Here are some quotes we pondered as we tackled this conversation as a community! Live nearby or want to travel to spend time with us? Check out our Pleasure Mechanics Events page for all upcoming Pleasure Salons, kink workshops & erotic immersions!




taboo(adj.) also tabu”consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed; prohibited to a certain class,” explained in some English sources as being from Tongan ta-bu “sacred,” from ta “mark” + bu “especially.” ~ Etymonline



The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ~Freda Adler



The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. ~ Tom Robbins