10.34864/HETEROGLOSSIA.ISSN.2084-1302.NR9.ART15
Zubiel-Kasprowicz, Magdalena
Magdalena
Zubiel-Kasprowicz
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8415-0297
Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa w Toruniu
Fenomen przekraczania tabu seksualności w kontekście norm społecznych
Wydawnictwo Uczelniane Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy
2019
This paper presents the notion of taboo in the context of a social phenomenon identified with a strong exclusion that simultaneously binds nature and culture. Trying to define
it, you can say that taboos are not just what cannot be named, what cannot be done, but also
what cannot be thought of. This term is connected with a strong ban and fear. Sexual life, along
with all its forms, ranging from debauchery to restraint, from promiscuity to asceticism, from
what falls within a norm to pathology, connected with such topics as eroticism and procreation, is an ambiguous, shameful and hidden area of human experience. Sexuality is the source
of elementary human shame. It is sometimes impure because it is related to the lower half of
the body, it is sometimes violent, it may cause disorder, fighting, jealousy. On the other hand,
however, it is perceived in terms of procreation as a lofty act of giving life. All manifestations
of sexuality have become a taboo. This paper discusses potential breaking of sexuality taboos
in the social context.