Betting on don't pass is often called " playing the dark side ," and it is considered by some players to be in poor taste, or even taboo, because it goes directly against conventional play.

The Kinsey Institute denies this charge, though it acknowledges that men who have had sexual experiences with children were interviewed, with Kinsey balancing what he saw as the need for their anonymity to solicit " honest answers on such taboo subjects " against the likelihood that their crimes would continue.

David cuts off a piece of Saul's robe ; yet David restrains himself and his associates from going further, due to a taboo against killing an anointed king ... and also due to the risk of rationalizing Saul's jealousy and paranoia.

In actual practice, there is a strong societal taboo against pre-marital sex for both males and females, which still exists today in Hindu cultures.

He also said that the Bulgars ' religion of Islam was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork ; Vladimir said on that occasion: " Drinking is the joy of all Rus '.

In this language and some others, there is a social taboo against the use of the everyday lexicon in the presence of certain relatives ( mother-in-law, child-in-law, paternal aunt's child, and maternal uncle's child ).

According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish.

One objection against an instinctive and genetic basis for the incest taboo is that incest does occur.

Psychoanalytic theory, in particular the claimed existence of an Oedipus complex which instead of instinctual aversion against incest argues for instinctual desire, has influenced many theorists seeking to explain the incest taboo using sociological theories.

His argument begins with the claim that the incest taboo is in effect a prohibition against endogamy, and the effect is to encourage exogamy.

The most significant such taboo restricts the allocation of stations 10. 6 and 10. 8 MHz apart, to protect against mixing products which will interfere with an FM receiver's standard 10. 7 MHz intermediate frequency stage.

In general, there is no taboo against eating horse meat in Nordic countries, but the popularity has decreased with decreasing availability of suitable horse meat.

Cú Chulainn's geasa included a ban against eating dog meat, but in early Ireland there was a powerful general taboo against refusing hospitality, so when an old crone offers him a meal of dog meat, he has no choice to break his geis.

Thrasher added that " The reason I did it is because it's such a taboo to make fun of violence against women, against Take Back the Night.

They were also feared as ministers of the taboo and were entitled to pronounce a kind of excommunication for offences against its rules.

The taboo held in several parts of Egypt, against eating certain fish which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time, suggesting that a fish species of the Nile was a totem for Anuket and that they were consumed as part of the ritual of her major religious festival.

For example, the incest taboo, if powerfully enforced, removes the natural selection pressure against the possession of incest-favoring instincts.

She also undertook a tour of Israel around the same time, which was well-received ; she sang some songs in German during her concerts, including, from 1962, a German version of Pete Seeger's anti-war anthem " Where Have All the Flowers Gone ", thus breaking the unofficial taboo against the use of German in Israel.

Although the uproar against Soap died down shortly after its premiere, the program continued to remain somewhat controversial, often generating additional criticism for its relatively frank depictions of homosexuals, racial and ethnic minorities, the mentally ill as well as its treatment of other taboo topics such as social class, marital infidelity, impotence, incest, sexual harassment, rape, student-teacher sexual relationships, kidnapping, organized crime, and new age cults.

His 1960 novel Rabbit, Run, the first of four chronicling the rising and falling fortunes of Harry " Rabbit " Angstrom over the course of four decades against the backdrop of the major events of the second half of the 20th century, broke new ground on its release in its characterization and detail of the American middle class and frank discussion of taboo topics such as adultery.

This is complicated by a taboo in Trill culture against romantic relationships with partners of previous hosts.

Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about " human nature ", a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers ( Hegel, Marx, structuralism, etc .).

Lévi-Strauss aimed, through a structural method, at discovering universal invariants in human society, chief among which he believed to be the incest taboo.

The incest taboo is and has been one of the most common of all cultural taboos, both in current nations and many past societies.

For example, Lévi-Strauss analyzed in the 1950s cultural phenomena including mythology, kinship ( the alliance theory and the incest taboo ), and food preparation.

This poses the question of the origin of the incest taboo as a universal characteristic of culture, and the question has often been framed as a question of whether it is based in nature or nurture.

One line of explanation sees the incest taboo as a cultural implementation of a biologically evolved preference for sexual partners with whom one is unlikely to share genes, since inbreeding may have detrimental outcomes.

According to this view the incest taboo is not necessarily a universal, but is likely to arise and become more strict under cultural circumstances that favour exogamy over endogamy, and likely to become more lax under circumstances that favor endogamy.

For example, what is the purpose of prohibitions that are routinely violated ( as for example when people claim that incest is taboo yet engage in incestuous behavior )?

It should be further noted that in these theories anthropologists are generally concerned solely with brother – sister incest, and are not claiming that all sexual relations among family members are taboo or even necessarily considered incestuous by that society.

Humans have been argued to have a special kin detection system that besides the incest taboo also regulates a tendency towards altruism towards kin.

Anthropologists have also argued that the social construct " incest " ( and the incest taboo ) is not the same thing as the biological phenomenon of " inbreeding.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss developed a general argument for the universality of the incest taboo in human societies.

An extreme example of this principle, and an exception to the incest taboo, is found among members of the ruling class in certain ancient states, such as the Inca, Egypt, China, and Hawaii ; brother – sister marriage ( usually between half-siblings ) was a means of maintaining wealth and political power within one family.

However, although cannibalism, in-group murder, and incest are taboo in the majority of societies, modern research has found exceptions for each and no taboo is presently known to be universal.

It has been suggested that the taboo of incest marks the difference between culture and nature and that Ovid's version of Myrrha showed this.

Like Byblis who fell in love with her brother, Myrrha is transformed and rendered voiceless making her unable to break the taboo of incest.

The ancient tale of Tantalus reaffirms that human sacrifice and infanticide are taboo in Ancient and Classical Greek culture.

Harris notes that pigs were also taboo in Ancient Egypt and continue to be forbidden by Islam, suggesting that environmental rather than cultural factors are responsible for putting this food animal off limits.

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And, in a case of " when in Rome, do as the Romans do ," she has also begun eating some types of foods ( fruit, popcorn ) with her hands, breaking a long-standing Vulcan taboo in the process.