Kawser is also gay. Keen to learn how he navigated his romantic life when his religious and ethnic communities largely perceive non-heteronormativity as taboo, I asked him to describe his relationships. “The casual or the serious ones?”—He asked in return. His seemingly simple clarification ...
Architecture is not simply building. Over 2,000 years ago, Roman architect MarcusVitruviusPollio defined two base realities in building: “Firmness” (Safety) and “Commodity” (Use) and then offered what turns building into architecture: “Delight” (Beauty). ...
You eat in French: pork, beef, poultry are French words. However, you hunt (and slaughter) in English: boar, cow, goose. Surprisingly, while you are born in English, the end of life comes in Viking. Death is taboo in many cultures, and so often the words used to refer to "the ...
Additional Posts in Desi Consultants a Consultant ▸ Technology You are currently posting as works at Consultant Has anyone here decided to not have kids of their own (might adopt)? How did you family react? Is it a big taboo in our culture? 1 reactions Like 4 Comments Share 5Y works...
Or, child marriage may occur in response to pregnancy among unmarried girls, in settings where premarital pregnancy is seen as a greater taboo than child marriage (in Senegal, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya [20]; in Zambia [49]; in Malawi [35]). For example, Stark [5] found that parents of ...
Love. Hindi has a unique word for each type of love: Lustless love, divine love, agape love, the love between a parent and a child, the love between a man and his animals, etc etc. Of course that is considering a culture where love is esteemed beyond most other ideas in the world...
But, while some traditions like eating beef has become less of a taboo and increasingly available in restaurants, others like bearing skin and women’s independence has stayed rigid. Caroline wondered how many woman actually knew how good the water felt around their body? Our discussion turned to...
Based on the Old Testament in the Bible, some Rastafarians believe that sleeping with a menstruating woman is impure or sinful. The taboo surrounding menstruation carried over and became widespread in Jamaican culture, in the form of “bomboclat.”[8] In the 1980s, Jamaicans living in New...
To break the taboo around what is a natural bodily function for half the world's population? The mothers of all children? The one because of whom the world remains populated? And isn’t it how men (and women alike) who decide that periods are a taboo topic, ar...