{"id":1745,"date":"2012-12-29T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-12-31T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T18:56:24","slug":"10-ways-taboos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/29\/10-ways-taboos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Ways Social Taboos About Sex, Drugs and Death Scare Us from Learning the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"AlterNet\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

In coordination with the January 1st release of the Feral House version of You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos<\/em><\/a>, AlterNet published my article, “Ten Ways Social Taboos About Sex, Drugs and Death Scare Us from Learning the Truth.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The ten harmful misconceptions caused by taboos covered in the article are:<\/p>\n

1. Taboo: Drugs\u2014Misconception: Jesus was against drug use.
\n2. Taboo: Sex—Misconception: Few women choose to be sex workers.
\n3. Taboo: Drugs—Misconception: Drugs do not aid creativity.
\n4. Taboo: Excrement—Misconception: We go to the bathroom properly.
\n5. Taboo: Drugs—Misconception: Illicit drugs are exceptionally deadly.
\n6. Taboo: Sex—Misconception: Jesus was against non-marital sex.
\n7. Taboo: Nasal Mucus—Misconception: Nose-picking is bizarre.
\n8. Taboo: Sex—Misconception: Homosexuality is a choice.
\n9. Taboo: Drugs—Misconception: Drug dealers cause drug use.
\n10. Taboo: Death—Misconception: Modern medicine can save us.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Kristen Gwynne (@kristengwynne<\/a>) at AlterNet for running this unconventional piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In coordination with the January 1st release of the Feral House version of You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos, AlterNet published my article, “Ten Ways Social Taboos About Sex, Drugs and Death Scare Us from Learning the Truth.” The ten harmful misconceptions caused by taboos covered in the article are: 1. Taboo: Drugs\u2014Misconception: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,14,8,9,100,21,382],"tags":[484,483,408,28],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-heroin","category-lsd","category-marijuana","category-opiates","category-prostitution","category-you-will-die","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-denial-of-death","tag-libertarian","tag-sex-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}