Foot binding

                         

AKA lotus foot.
Lotus foot is the act of wrapping painfully right binding to the feet to prevent door growth.
It is speculated to have originated from upper class dancers during the 5dynesties and 10 kingdoms of imperial chine during the 10th and 11th century.
It became popular among the lower class during the sony period.
Foot binding became a Sybil of wealth because the family did not need the girl to work.
Emperor kangxi tried to ban lotus foot but he failed. Luckily it died out in the early 20th century because of changing social conditions. Anti foot binding campaigns also helped.
Some woman still survive with disabilities related to their feet being bound.

Dog meat

                                


Dog meat was consumed in east+SE Asia, west Africa, Europe the Philippines and pre columbian America.

Dog meat is still eaten in china, Korea, Vietnam and Switzerland 

Dog meat was eaten during war and hardship.

Dog mean consumption is deemed inappropriate and offensive, especially to western countries.

Globalization has increased criticism. 

The world society for the protection of animals is against dog mean as the dogs are tortured and farmed in cages.

Dogmeat consumers say that the difference between pet and livestock is subjective

historical Buddhist writing forbid the consumption if dog meat as it is one of the five forbidden meats. Judaism and Islam have also banned dog meat

Rehearsal Plan - 25th March 2014

   

1. Finish stimulus bog post’s                                                                               
2. Research on Necrophilia find some real life stories on the taboo with this information we can begin to form characters.

 Parris’s Character Profile

• Shy but friendly? Timid

• Small group of friends but is well liked by everyone

• Obsessive behaviour 

• Switches every so often 

• Is this the first time he has killed?

• How long have we known him?

• Perfectionist

• Collects body parts?

• Takes pictures with the bodies?

• When did it all start?

• Never spoke about murder

• Creepy childhood

• Siblings?

• See's his victims as objects 

Questions to the character

• How old are you?

• How long have you been living alone?

• Would you say your close to your family?

• When did you come out?

• How many relationships have you had?

• Longest relationship?

• Why did you break up?

• Who dumped who?

• When your upset how so you express your feelings?

• Are you a closed or open person?

• Do you trust easily? 

• What do you like about Johnny?

• Why Johnny?

• Does death scare you?

• Do dead bodies make you feel uncomfortable & why?

• Do you prefer to be in your own personal space? 

• Do you find it hard making friends?

• Do you like to be in control?

• Do you find hard to leg go?

• Do you hold grudges? 

Bestiality

                                   

Is when humans have sexual contact with an animal.

Bestiality is legal in 19 U.S. states and DC; there are also countries (such as Sweden) where it is legal.

Bestiality is not all that unheard of and there are even websites with up to 874,000 members.

That’s enough people to fill 20 baseball stadiums to full capacity. And remember; only some zoo's that allow that type of practice are on that site. However, the taboo and stigma associated with bestiality means most of these people to hide their habits.

Genital Mutilation

                     


Genital cutting refers to genital modification and mutilation of the human genitals using a cutting instrument.

This terminology is often used in some literature specifically to avoid using the terms 'mutilation' or 'circumcision'. These practices can include:

• Female genital cutting (FGC) including: Clitoridectomy Labiaplasty 

• Vaginoplasty 

• Male genital cutting including: Castration Circumcision Penectomy 

• Penile sub incision penile super incision

Although circumcision is quite common, the darker side of general mutilation is really spoken of and very taboo.

Asperger's

                       

Asperger’s is a form of autism you can't always tell if someone has autism, so it’s sometimes called a hidden disability.

People with Asperger syndrome can find it hard to read the signal of us take for granted this means I find it difficult to communicate and interact with others which can lead to high level shires confusion.



People with mental health problems say that the social stigma attached to mental ill health and the discrimination they experience can make their difficulties worse.

The syndrome is named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger who, in 1944, studied and described children in his practice who lacked non-verbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their

peers, and were physically clumsy.

The modern conception of Asperger syndrome came into existence in 1981 and went through a period of popularisation becoming standardised as a diagnosis in the early 1990s.

We thought that this would be an interesting taboo to research because it is not a subject that is spoken often about. I feel that there is so much that could be learnt about this disability.

S&M

Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving of pleasure often sexual from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. 

Practitioners of sadomasochism usually seek out sexual gratification from these acts, but often seek out other forms of pleasure as well. 

While the terms sadist and masochist specifically refer to one who either enjoys giving pain (sadist), or one who enjoys receiving pain (masochist), many practitioners of sadomasochism describe themselves as at least something of a switch, or someone who can receive pleasure from either inflicting or receiving pain.

In a medical diagnostics the term sadism and masochism describe a personality type characterised by the individual deriving pleasure and gratification from either inflicting or receiving physical pain or humiliation.

 In some cases the pleasure and gratification may be sexual but in others sexual pleasure is not experienced, and it may involve deriving the pleasure from masochistic or sadist behaviour towards the opposite gender or same gender as self.

Some individuals appear to be exclusively sadist and others exclusively masochistic in deriving their pleasure, but many alternately derive pleasure from sadist and masochistic thoughts and experiences involving themselves and others.

After researching in to this we thought as a group this would be an interesting topic to discuss and maybe base a play about because there is more to S&M then the usual whips and chains there is the physiological affect it has which keeps people craving the pain that they experience. 

Taboo

A taboo is an intense prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake, under threat of supernatural punishment.

Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies.

The word has been somewhat expanded in the social sciences to strong prohibitions relating to any area of human activity or custom that is sacred or forbidden based on moral judgement and religious beliefs.

 "Breaking a taboo" is usually considered objectionable by society in general, not merely a subset of a culture.

We choose the word taboo for our stimuli because we wanted to base our play on a topic which is not accepted in society and would be interesting to reach upon. We all agreed that we all wanted to learn something new and see it from perpetrators side.