Donatus was already so far away from that day that he had no feeling for its social tabus.

To a woman such membership meant a singular freedom from the tabus, prohibitions, that had forbidden her eating with men, tasting pig, and other delicacies.

They had tabus as strict as a Maori's.

Historians and anthropologists have taught us that among all peoples, however barbarous, there are conventions, sanctions, tabus, by which the relations of men and women are regulated.

The extent to which social tabus and prudery may actually inhibit a woman's natural sexual development makes it possible, as we have seen, for her to marry in ignorance of what marriage implies.

Shortly before the abolition of the tabus, a little child had one of her eyes scooped out for the same offense.