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- Around the world there are people of different cultures who take actions and decisions that seem out of the ordinary to the average westerner. Considered taboo, these people and their stories are now being known.
- Taboo looks are exotic entertainers around the world including carnival performers in the United States, cross-dressing cabaret in Thailand, and geisha in Japan.
- Taboo looks at dangerous and violent sports including cockfighting in the United States, bullfighting in Mexico, and bare-knuckle brawling ritual in Bolivia.
- Taboo looks at practices regarding spirits. It goes to Philippians, to observe and exorcism. It visits Brazil to see a conjurer cast a death spell. It also heads to Zimbabwe to interview a women haunted by spirits of her family.
- Taboo looks at rites of passage around the world including a boy's circumcision in South Africa, an Apache's girls ritual of womanhood, and American couple's journey into old age.
- Taboo looks at religious tests of faith including land diving on Pentecost Island, fire-walkers in Greece, and a man in the Philippines who braves crucifixion.
- Taboo investigate the practice of witchcraft. It looks at the practices of a Witch in Mexico, a cleansing ceremony in Zimbabwe, and a group of Wiccans in the United Kingdom.
- It's a basic human need. We all seek acceptance. But our motivations vary. Some seek beauty, while others want to show devotion. Sometimes acceptance comes through conformity while other times it comes from breaking boundaries and creating our own path. How far would you go to be accepted? How far is too taboo for you?
- Taboo looks at initiation rituals around the world including stick whipping and facial tattoos in the Fulani tribe of Benin, dancing on knife blades in South Korea, and enduring ant gloves in Brazil.
- Taboo looks at how different cultures indicate status and identity through body modification including the stretched necks of the Padaung in Thailand, the full body tattoos of the Yakuza in Japan, and branding in the United States.
- In San Francisco, ordinary people can become members of an underground fight club. In Indonesia, men prove themselves by throwing spears at each other. In Benin, boys become men by enduring extreme whipping.
- In Los Angeles, Jackie stuffed her dog after its death. In San Francisco, Tia keeps the dead animals in the freezer in order to stuff them. In Nevada, a mother treats her monkey pet as her own daughter. In Fort Lauderdale, Ilene sees her iguana as her baby. In Miami, a family owns 500 snakes.
- Taboo examines how societies view death and dead bodies including a month-long funeral in Indonesia, public immolation of the dead in India, and a pathologist in the the United States.
- Taboo looks at different family arrangement around the world including the matriarchal Mosuo tribe in China, criminal gang families in South Africa, and polyandry in northern India.
- Taboo looks at body modification including teeth filling in Indonesia, plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and bone stretching in China.
- Taboo examines how people in different cultures raise children including young gymnasts in China, India children raised in prison, and unsupervised children in Indonesia.
- Taboo examines how animals and insects are used as medicine. It looks at the use of animal parts in South Africa, bees is Taiwan, leeches in India, and maggots in the United States.
- Taboo looks at foods that are considered delicacies around the world including rotten shark meat in Iceland, goat fetus in India, rat in Togo, and bull penis as an aphrodisiac in Taiwan.
- An Indian temple where a priest and his wife live with thousands of rats believed to be reincarnated ancestors. A community in Florida where clothing is banned. A night in a Manila cemetery where 5,000 people live among the dead.
- Taboo looks at disgusting jobs around the world including leather tanning in Morocco, dead body collectors in Thailand, and sewer divers in Mexico.
- Taboo examines how cultures sometimes use pain in religious rites including tongue boring in Nepal, self stabbing and possession rites in Indonesia, and extreme body piercing and self-mutilation in Thailand.