Sentences with phrase «sexual taboos»

The increased competition for mates, coinciding with the arrival of the birth control pill, helps to explain a number of things, such as the collapse of sexual taboos as young women began to offer free samples and to pursue men previously considered off limits (such as other women's husbands).

Considered as contemporary Shunga (erotic art), or Yokaiga (ghost and monster art), the work cleverly mixes eroticism and provocative elements along with black humor, aiming to unveil various sexual taboos within conservative Japanese social society.

Among other themes, it describes the festival calendars, lists sexual taboos, deals with personal cultic purity and presents the Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles.

Films like «The Rocky Horror Picture Show» (1975) broke sexual taboos, while «The Boondock Saints» (1999) became a huge success on DVD after an unsuccessful release in just five theaters for its violent content.

The sexual content of the director's previous films that bring his ability to deal with such touchy sexual taboos into question;

Walerian Borowczyk's 1974 film presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema.

Among the cabaret is Liz Aggiss with Slap and Tickle, a ribald commentary on sexual taboos.

Kelley's transgressive project extends understanding for sexual taboos and illicit pleasures still considered incompatible with the aims and interests of present society.

Incest, usually defined as sex between close blood relatives, is one of the most pervasive sexual taboos across cultures.

«Maybe having married clergy will help us all move on from a culture of sexual taboos,» Albert Cutié writes

In telling the story of five couples dealing with various sexual taboos, writer and director Josh Lawson treats his subject matter with just the right mix of delicacy and side - splitting humor, all building to a surprisingly sweet ending.

Sexual taboo was the big sin from day one in this culture.

This holiness is attained by the creation and maintenance of certain structures of time (the festival and sabbatical calendars), space (the temple and its component courtyards) and personal status (the sexual taboos).

Sexual taboos are disappearing, with no real possibility that the confused category of consent will be able to hold back the tide against total sexual anarchy.

Chalk it up to our culture's sexual taboos.

And they've offered only the most superficial treatment to Killer Joe's use of sexual taboos; it seems everybody got so revved in anticipation for that bucket of KFC, they missed the movie.

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.

Hyperallergic interviews MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley about mythological creatures, sexual taboos, and video art.