Sentence examples for taboo talk from inspiring English sources

When it comes to teaching us about sex and our bodies, the all-time taboo talk that nobody seems to have gotten was the one about menopause.

Never make it a taboo, talk about it openly.

In that sense, not much has changed in the US since mental health issues are still taboo talking points and it is only until recently that medical professionals, patients and their families are beginning to openly speak about mental illness in attempts to end the stigma.

THE foreign policy of Iran has, for years, been all but paralysed by two taboos: talking about better relations with America, the "Great Satan", and revoking the fatwa the religious death sentence passed on Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 outraged Islamic sensibilities with his book "The Satanic Verses".

She says, "It really inspired me seeing them putting on the plate the uncomfortable truth, unveiling taboos, talking freely and from their heart, not being scared of being criticized and scrutinized".

Both talked about what's taboo to talk about and did so with eloquence fueled by the courage of their convictions.

Some tribal communities consider it taboo to talk about death while others are OK to talk about death and the deceased.

While it was once taboo to talk about the problems involved with marrying relatives, they are now talked about openly.

"It is a social taboo, when talking about death, to talk about money," Slocum said.

"It should not be taboo to talk about these things".

"Even 20 years ago it was almost taboo to talk about this," he says by phone.