But Davis says despite the country's Catholic culture, condoms are not religiously taboo in Haiti.
This is one taboo which I am right on board in helping to smash.
Privatisation of the country's state industries, which account for 30% of the economy, remains taboo.
Such doubts and fears have not gone, but criticising Hizbullah in public has become a taboo.
This is a major break in post-WWII policy, in which aggression became a fundamental taboo.
"The gay lifestyle was still very much considered taboo and off-limits by mainstream society, " he says.
We received many messages from men asking us to look at this taboo subject.
But he adds that the subject is often avoided, and even treated as taboo.
Other ex-officials are shedding light on formerly taboo subjects, including the assassinations of dissidents.
Clergy and insurance sales agents also said they think this kind of thing is taboo.
So often abuse becomes either a source of humor or a taboo discussion topic.
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Eating pork and shellfish, for example, is banned, while mixing meat and milk is also taboo.
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Politicians' private lives are largely taboo, even in countries with lively tabloids such as Poland.
Some outspoken Chinese scholars are raising that previously taboo idea in public, albeit with caveats.
Mr Fabius has breached an important taboo, opening the way for further cuts at the top.
There is a taboo against giving aid to Myanmar for fear of bolstering the dreadful regime.
The Gaza disengagement in 2005 broke a taboo on removing Israeli settlements from the occupied territories.
Mr. Maaz said looted art was a taboo subject, never discussed officially in Communist East Germany.
But the issue of payment is still taboo and is not mentioned anywhere in the proposals.
Video Games were once very taboo in society, but over time, it has become increasingly acceptable.
The French word for austerity, rigueur, remains taboo on both left and right.
But even love matches can't be openly consummated before marriage, thanks to the taboo against premarital sex.
There's still a taboo over speaking ill of the dead, but some people choose to ignore it.
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My mother divorced him, despite the fact that divorce was taboo in our community at the time.
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Hussain struggles to describe how people ridiculed her in her community in Kashmir, where infertility is taboo.
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This includes Janet Street-Porter and Jeremy Clarkson, whose "lazy caricatures" reinforce the taboo on the issue, he said.
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"Taboo, " Boy George's foray into the world of musicals, went fine in London but not in New York.
Some atavistic taboo, a notion of respect for the dead as if her mother still lay there in possession.
There is a taboo that left-leaning critics of popular culture are obliged to observe: never criticize the populace.
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