Which Cultures have not made a Taboo of boobs?

[Azadre]

Is there a culture that still exists today that does not consider boobs a taboo?

 

[Yom]

Every culture. The last time I heard, people with breasts were not chastized. Moreover, most children (in the world) are breast-fed.

 

[luiz]

The Yanomamis, for exemple. There are others(polynesians, etc)

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Tehe, boobs.

 

[Babbler]

Is there a culture that still exists today that does not consider boobs a taboo?

You mean showing boobs a taboo, right? Because if you are, the only the amazons consider a taboo.

Well, only the left one, at least.

 

[Jawz II]

im affraid taboob is a part of all the big ones

i think they had a pretty good reason for making people feel guilty about sex, since many of the STDs that are now cured with penicilin, could kill you back then when people invented this religion stuff

 

[Birdjaguar]

How long until this thread gets 250 looks?

 

[SeleucusNicator]

im affraid taboob is a part of all the big ones

i think they had a pretty good reason for making people feel guilty about sex, since many of the STDs that are now cured with penicilin, could kill you back then when people invented this religion stuff

Interestingly enough, there was a drastic change in European treatment of sexuality after 1493. Dress became much stricter, chastity a much more perscribed virtue, and even language was affected. The use of "white meat" for breast in chicken was an example, for instance.

What happened in 1493? The first case of syphyllus was reported in Cadiz, Spain.

 

[Taliesin]

I think most Polynesian cultures are at least somewhat more open than we are. I know, for example, that when Magellan landed in the Philippines, the local custom dictated that women went naked until they married (which caused problems when there landed a boatload of sailors who hadn't got any for a year and a half). Obviously it wouldn't be to this same extent today, but something of that root doubtless remains.

 

[Taliesin]

Interestingly enough, there was a drastic change in European treatment of sexuality after 1493. Dress became much stricter, chastity a much more perscribed virtue, and even language was affected. The use of "white meat" for breast in chicken was an example, for instance.

What happened in 1493? The first case of syphyllus was reported in Cadiz, Spain.

I remember reading something interesting about Dark Ages Europe: by law, pretty much all across the continent, prostitutes could not wear clothing. The implication of this was that prostitutes were by far the cleanest people in Europe, since they were free of lice and had to keep clean to attract customers.

 

[Akka]

Well, there is quite a lot of cultures that didn't bother with concealing breasts at all.
Many meso-american cultures, african cultures, oceanian cultures...

It's not a rare thing at all. It's just that Europeans have conquered most of the world, and exported good part their own vision of it in the previous centuries.

 

[Rhymes]

The american-college culture, since I arrived in SOU I might have seen half a dozen pair of boobs in a non-sexual context....

 

[cgannon64]

I remember reading something interesting about Dark Ages Europe: by law, pretty much all across the continent, prostitutes could not wear clothing. The implication of this was that prostitutes were by far the cleanest people in Europe, since they were free of lice and had to keep clean to attract customers.

That's a fascinating law.

Btw, I hope this thread's aim is not to say that these cultures are superior to ours...

 

[Azadre]

That's a fascinating law.

Btw, I hope this thread's aim is not to say that these cultures are superior to ours...

This thread is out of curiosity because of last year's superbowl and such.

 

[emzie]

Oddly enough, here (Ontario) and in Columbus, Ohio (where I'm from), women may go around topless. In Columbus, girls that worked at stripclubs would hand out flyers downtown -- but when the TV news reported it, the video was censored.

 

[Azadre]

Oddly enough, here (Ontario) and in Columbus, Ohio (where I'm from), women may go around topless. In Columbus, girls that worked at stripclubs would hand out flyers downtown -- but when the TV news reported it, the video was censored.

Hmmm... everytime I am in Columbus, I don't see anything.

 

[emzie]

Hmmm... everytime I am in Columbus, I don't see anything.

It's legal -- check out a gay pride parade for example. The stripers only did that (and they did carwashes too -- a lot of 70-year-old men had their Buicks washed) the day after it was declaired legal.

 

[Marla_Singer]

In Bali, everyone can show the top if they want but must hide the bottom. This is true as much for men than women. Now this is what I call an equal society.

 

[storealex]

So basically, the men wear bra's in Bali?

 

[Perfection]

So basically, the men wear bra's in Bali?

That's called a bro