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As the authors point out, the taboos among speakers of English occur mostly among terms for death, God, fear, sex, lust, and bodily parts, to which one should add bodily functions and, perhaps, disease.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
Laws against interracial marriage--and the taboos against black-white sex that they codify--have been the central weapon in the oppression of African-Americans since the dawn of slavery.
Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.
Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.