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Taboo

Season 7 2011
TV-MA

  • 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z on National Geographic
  • 1h
  • 4h 30m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

7x01 Beauty

Season Premiere

7x01 Beauty

  • 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z45m

In a youth-obsessed Western culture, some feel the need to obsessively diet, exercise and partake of beauty treatments or plastic surgery. However, some have taken these to fatal extremes. In Paris, we'll meet a young model with extreme anorexia, so fixated on her weight that at 55 pounds she died from the disease. In Texas, a woman feels the need to continually increase her breast size, all the way to a triple K cup.

2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

7x02 Fantasy Lives

7x02 Fantasy Lives

  • 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z45m

People obsessed with their fantasy lives are profiled. Included: a grown man in California pretending he's a baby; a Japanese kickboxer dressing up as animated characters in the ring; a Florida father engaging in cybersex in his spare time.

2011-05-10T00:00:00Z

7x03 Addiction

7x03 Addiction

  • 2011-05-10T00:00:00Z45m

Delve into the lives of those haunted by addiction. Meet a 15-year-old South Korean boy in rehab because he’s hooked on video games. It’s an addiction shared by millions of Koreans, even spurring the government to intervene with a specialized rehab facility. In California, a woman is addicted to anonymous sex meeting countless partners in parking lots to satisfy her insatiable appetite.

2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

7x04 Hoarders

7x04 Hoarders

  • 2011-05-17T00:00:00Z45m

In every city, there are hoarders. A Florida woman shares her house with nearly 400 pigs, as they continue to multiply. In Pennsylvania, a man's obsession with vinyl records has driven him to collect around two million records, with thousands more purchased every month. In England, we meet a male hoarder whose apartment is filled with clutter piled three feet high, and a female hoarder forced out of her home due to her inability to throw items away.

2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

7x05 Prison Love

7x05 Prison Love

  • 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z45m

Love behind bars with some of the most dangerous criminals on earth. In Texas, an inmate in solitary confinement gets married with the help of a radio host as surrogate groom, while the prisoner listens over the radio. In California, a pregnant woman has a white wedding at the county jail, with a glass wall separating the couple as they say their vows. In Tennessee, a man serving life for murder marries a woman he met over the Internet, but the marriage has little hope of being consummated.

2011-06-13T00:00:00Z

7x06 Forbidden Love

7x06 Forbidden Love

  • 2011-06-13T00:00:00Z45m

Love can come in many different and bizarre forms. In Washington State, we meet a man with objectum sexual, who has an emotional, romantic and often sexual attraction to his car, named Vanilla. In Germany, we'll introduce you to the founder of the Objectum Sexual International Forum, who is in a loving relationship with the Berlin Wall. And we'll meet a married couple in California whose concept of monogamy has an odd twist she works as a professional sex surrogate.

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