Western societies love to pretend they’re open-minded—until you break one of their many, many unspoken rules and suddenly you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was a kid, my parents briefly moved the family to a conservative border town just off the Navajo reservation in ...

When we hear the words “food taboo,” we often conjure up horrifying thoughts of eating dogs or horses; you may gag, or your skin could crawl, at the idea of consuming animals which many Americans ...

Applying anthropology to business means asking the big questions. How does communication influence culture? How does language continue to evolve? And what are the hidden assumptions that shape our ...

Interviews where the interviewee delivers rehearsed model answers, and both parties part ways with a pleasant handshake. The ...

As a Certified Sex Therapist, I often encounter clients, and just people in daily life, grappling with a profound dilemma: They are torn between their innate desire to explore their sexuality and the ...

Language does much more than just convey information. It expresses emotions, establishes social connections, and even challenges norms. Taboo language is one of its most intriguing facets. These "off ...

On my first day as an Arabic teacher, my school mentor sternly advised me, "Avoid the three taboos: sex, politics, and religion.” When I started teaching Arabic in a public school, I inherited the ...

In Nigeria, menstrual health continues to be a taboo-ridden battlefield, where lack of open dialogue, cultural myths, and economic constraints force many girls and women into precarious hygienic ...