Did you know Edit. User reviews 7 Review. Top review. Genuinely Informed. The series is meant to show what extremes exist in different cultures of people. Which some viewers may find, detracts from the program a little. It was very informative for me to witness all of the different practices that occur on a regular basis, and gave new insight on what it means to be "Culturally relative". That being said, if you watch this, watch it with adults or alone Details Edit.
Release date September 30, United States. United States. National Geographic Channel United States. Beyond Entertainment National Geographic Channel. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 45 minutes. Related news. This is from Borneo's Secret View all photos.
Free Solo. Find out more here! Find out here Go on the hunt to determine which aspects of your personality reveal the Big Cat that roars from within. Taboo: site. Drugs, Inc. In this episode, a grown man chooses to role-play as a diaper-wearing baby. A Florida woman treats a vinyl doll like a real infant, caring meticulously for its every need. A Japanese kickboxer cross-dresses as female anime characters.
And a suburban father breaks a moral code by keeping one family in reality and another in a virtual world. This is a rarely glimpsed journey into the mysterious world where real life collides with fantasy-and enters into the taboo. When people are imprisoned they lose their freedom and their rights. But human beings are persistent creatures, and love - and sex - can penetrate the thickest of prison walls.
Should convicted felons be allowed the pleasures of life that have been denied to their victims? Many women feel enormous pressure to change the way they look. For most, this involves cosmetics and beauty treatments. But for some, it goes further, driving them to extreme measures that can be excruciating, unhealthy, and even fatal.
When women begin mutilating and disfiguring their bodies, they break taboos and make us question what it means to be beautiful. In this episode we step into the hidden world of prostitution. Said to be one of the world's oldest professions… and it's most taboo. Prostitution - Its been called the world's oldest profession. Yet around the globe exchanging sex for money is considered taboo.
And those who sell themselves are labelled Hookers and whores. This episode explores the factors that define the sex industry in the 21st century in order to understand why prostitution remains Taboo. In all societies there are those who find themselves isolated from their fellow humans but they all have one thing in common… They're outsiders, misfits, and to live outside the walls of society is seen as taboo.
In all societies there are those who find themselves isolated from their fellow humans. In Australia, a man's belief that his right leg is not part of his body, has devastating consequences. In Bangladesh an entire community is mistrusted, and cast adrift on the country's waterways.
In England, a man rejects his society's rules on food by choosing to eat road kill. They all have one thing in common. They are outsiders, misfits … taboo. In an industrialised world, where the body beautiful is a thin one, we ask why two thirds of the population are now overweight….
While some societies wage a war on drugs, other cultures embrace them for their medicinal, spiritual or even religious benefits. Despite their long history, drugs remain highly controversial. In one culture a drug may be sacred whilst in another that same drug can be taboo. In the United States, marijuana is illegal if taken for recreational purposes, but others are legally allowed to buy, prepare and take marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Deep in the Amazon forest followers of the Santo Daime church believe that ayahuasca - a jungle hallucinogen used for centuries by shaman - is a holy sacrament that paves a spiritual pathway to enlightenment For many people a relationship means a man and a woman in love and legally married.
But for some, this kind of bond is not enough. Human relationships can bring safety, security and love… but sometimes they can also be taboo. In Australia a couple stay faithful by having sex with strangers. In poverty stricken Nepal love is lost when a seven year-old child is sold as a bride. In the United Kingdom a man defies one of his country's strictest taboos by marrying seven women. And in the United States we witness a relationship that is hardly human at all when a man falls in love with a sex doll.
Death comes to us all, yet we deal with it in different ways. Enter a place where the world of the living crosses over with the world of the dead, beyond the grave. Each of us walks through life stalked by the same shadow: mortality.
Some day, we will all die. In an effort to cope with death, we shroud it in ritual and surround it with taboos. And what one culture sees as a normal way to deal with the dead, for another might be forbidden. In Nepal, a body is burned beside a sacred river. In America, a corpse is beautified for an open casket funeral. In Germany, human bodies are plastinated and put on public display, and in Korea, workers get a The topic of death is a taboo for most, so meet those whose job confronts it every day, from collecting car crash victims to dissecting corpses.
In order to please their gods, some people push themselves to the limits. Their faith goes beyond prayer and into a bloody realm of suffering. The human body is sacred for most, so meet those who ritually abuse theirs, from ingesting bodily waste to forming disturbing bonds with animals. Featuring three-year-olds in a boxing ring and young sons cutting themselves to prove religious devotion, this is childhood at its most shocking.
Humans have a traditional desire to belong. Every tribe and culture has its tests, proving grounds to measure an individual's worth. Whether it's feasting on the world's largest spider or devouring an animal's penis, when it comes to cuisine some like theirs extreme. Drug-taking is widely practised around the world but condemned by most societies. This episode examines cultural differences in attitudes. Around the world some people live on society's fringes. Examine why leprosy sufferers are shunned in Nepal and rat catchers are avoided in India.
On the Indian sub-continent a group of outcast transsexuals called the Hijra cut off their genitals and live as women to form a third gender. In every society there are strong taboos about sex, yet some people break the norm of marital monogamy by sharing their spouse with others.
Law-breaking demands punishment but this episode examines the extremes, from open prisons for murderers in India to the American walk of shame.
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