Yeah ---- there are several serious taboos that cross nearly all geographic, racial, cultural, religious barriers. I've been thinking about this, and it's always about disease. Cannibalism, notably: you eat other people, you catch WHATEVER they've got because human to human disease transmission is a given in that case, from both butchering and consuming. I grokked that in the Sterling dystopic novel Dies the Fire when the cannibal bandits all had sores and boils all over and were generally sick and running down. In our lifetimes there has continued cannibalism in New Guinea, Africa, and I think Utter Pradesh in India, a totally wild area. New Guinea has kuru, that brain disease like Mad Cow that is directly from cannibalism and none of them live long there. The WHO has tried to stop it, I don't know with what success.
Incest of course is a terrible problem with retardation and many really disfiguring defects, such as the Hapsburg jaw --- European royalty was so inbred that one Hapsburg monarch could not chew and a number had hemophilia, including the last crown prince of Russia. Today incest is a problem among Moslems, who marry first cousins routinely, Mormon polygamists, and Ashkenazi Jews, and all have terrible birth defects.
Homosexuality (among men: women don't seem to matter, disease-wise) has always been taboo, as you point out, everywhere, and I guess we have learned why in our time!! Some 70 million dead of AIDS by now; monkeypox spreading fast; a meningitis outbreak in Florida. The catalog of diseases spread by the very dangerous, unhealthy practices these men "enjoy" is just amazing, and yet they continue to do it. They bring in diseases to the normal people of their societies and these diseases spread, as presumably this monkeypox will. I hope not the recent meningitis --- that's a killer.
It's very stupid for any society to affirm and even celebrate and normalize homosexuality (and the other taboos) as this one has started doing. It just brings in disease after disease. And leads to the seduction and ruin of so many young boys.
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