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%EXCITING TABOOS 770428
There is often excitement in the process of violating
taboos. An exhilaration is occasioned by involvement in
the process of escaping from imprisoning taboos. Reaching
for freedom is exciting. Violating taboos may be a
reaching for freedom. In a sexually repressive society,
violating the society's sexual taboos may generate sexual
excitement. The taboos designed to make sexual
relationships undesirable may generate extra pleasure for
those who seek to escape the taboos. Thus the taboos
generate a new context which changes the nature of sexual
relationships relative to the nature of sexual
relationships in the absence of taboos. Those who seek to
justify taboos thus deal with the natural consequences of
their taboos as the basis for justifying their taboos.
Methodologically, this is potentially a process of begging
the question; for the decision to enforce a taboo may
generate the justification for the decision. At the same
time the decision to enforce a taboo may generate
pleasures which will ultimately motivate the overthrow of
the taboo. Thus the enforcement of taboo may lead
technocrats to perceive increased need for the taboo and
non-technocrats to perceive increased motivation for
escaping it --- thus doubly intensifying conflict between
counter-cultural tendencies. Members of the two
complementary cultures may thus perceive and act in terms
of opposite perceptions of the nature of the situation---
each gaining excitement and some kind of meaning in the
process.
Taboos are counter productive for communities because
they generate alienation, between technically and non-
technically oriented persons. Taboos do not promote
reconciliation --- the transcendence of sin. Taboos are
thoughtless and heartless. Taboos operate in ways which
can be programed into a computer---reactions to specific
situations are specified without respect for the wholistic
nature of the situation. The confrontations between the
oppressors and oppressed generate excitement of a violent
sort and occasion violent actions. Thus sexually
oppressive societies are characterized by violence of many
forms --- not all of which are directly associated with
sexuality. In such societies it is via collusions taboo to
perceive the origin of the various forms of violence--for
to do so would undermine the taboos which generated the
violent reactions.
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