I think there's probably some original wisdom in most taboos. Drugs are a clear case of something that can seriously threaten sanity and at the same time are ex

I think there's probably some original wisdom in most taboos. Drugs are a clear case of something that can seriously threaten sanity and at the same time are exploited by the unscrupulous (dealers, cult leaders, etc.) Alcohol is a drug which has been deemed acceptable by western culture, perhaps because suppressing it is impossible and it's (relatively) innocuous. But it still ruins many lives. Changing attitudes to pornography are an interesting test case for the slow rehabilitation of a taboo activity.(Whether, in future, it does become completely normalized, or alternatively is definitively identified as an activity that, in its industrial form, is harmful to producers or consumers)