[UA] TABOO

[Saul Peers]

Actually, incest is the closest we come to a universal taboo; in other 
words, nearly every culture known to Western science considers incest a 
serious no-no.  Eating people, female rularship and other rare social 
deviancy is much more common then incest...

Erm, not that female rularship is bad, it's just very rare in pre-industrial 
societes.

Don't hit me.

-Saul


>From: Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: [UA] TABOO
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- David M Jacobs <dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Urk.  You would make me punch "consensual incest"
> > into a search engine,
> > wouldn't you?  I need a shower.
>
>Sometimes I feel like that after writing a good UA
>game.  For instance, the first UA game I ran at a con
>I deliberately crammed full of social taboos.
>
>(Kevin Elmore played one of the milder characters in
>it.)
>
>I included Incest (A character had been seduced by his
>daughter to re-enact a scene from the Naked Goddess'
>history - I figured she was a product of abuse, too.)
>
>I included Cannibalism (A person slowly turning into a
>Lovecraftian-style ghoul due to magic ceremonies
>using, well, various "religious tracts" authored by
>Sandy Petersen.)
>
>Actually, those are the two biggies in western
>culture, aren't they?  Incest and cannibalism. Well, I
>guess Pedophilia is taboo, too, but I accidentally
>mixed that in with incest in the Pike character,
>more-or-less.
>
>Did I mention that all the taboo-breakers were PCs?
>
>Oh yeah, and Beastiality.
>
>How many taboos did I miss, I wonder.
>
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