Freud also states that the only two "universal" taboos are that of incest and patricide, which formed the eventual basis of modern society.

It never occurs to them that black women are breaking a universal taboo: women must never tell the truth about or make fun of men in public.

Sigmund Freud posited that incest and patricide were the only two universal taboos and formed the basis of civilization.

But that universal taboo is driven as much by the genetic dangers of inbreeding as by morality or law.

In "Run for Your Wife," however, the farce derives from the breaking of a more universal taboo than office adultery: bigamy.

Perhaps it is hopelessly naïve to seek to make terrorism a universal taboo; perhaps a nuanced moral clarity is a contradiction in terms.

Rules limiting brother-sister and forbidding parent-child incest are so common in human society that anthropologists have wondered if they are the one "universal taboo."

Torture is that paradox, an all-but-universal practice that is simultaneously a universal taboo, like incest.

It is sometime mistakenly stated that there are no universal sexual taboos.

Some observers noticed that people didn't want to deal with confronting a universal human taboo.