Sentences with phrase «societal taboos»

This breakdown of societal taboos against lemur hunting, a study now shows, combined with weak enforcement of wildlife laws, is contributing to a rise in illegal lemur poaching in the country.

With the reduction of cinematic censorship and the erosion of societal taboos, the exploitation film rose to popularity in the late 1960s, trailing the rise of drive - ins and grindhouse theatres.

It's compelling, poetic, rebellious, funny and one of the few movies that feels like it's been culled from another time and place yet broodingly bends modern societal taboos.

A group of fearless women fight for their right to go topless in public, as they smash societal taboos one bare breast at a time.

That Rush Hour 2 (and the Pink Panther saga, for that matter) is often so genial in its cheap humour and gratifying in its physical exertions speaks to an almost universal desire to see people get a pie in the face while inelegantly breaking societal taboos.

Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor was a group exhibition exploring the use of humor as a critical method to forthrightly address societal taboos, prejudice, and stereotypes.

Many of her works are critical of hypocritical societal taboos and stereotypes.

With so many societal taboos and boundaries around sexual behavior, the sex addict is quickly trapped by the addiction cycle.

With the realization of possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics to reduce anxiety and chronic pain, however, the societal taboos against scientific research on their neurobiology have somewhat relaxed.

Less interested in transitioning as a societal taboo than as a marital one, the film shows the impact Einar's radical realisation has on his relationship with his adoring wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander).

Indeed, even the painting's caption references another societal taboo — alcoholism.

Sex between adults and children has been a societal taboo so strong that it's considered one of our few unquestioned moral principles.