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A look at how love and sex are expressed in different societies. Included: swingers in Australia; a Chinese ethnic group that encourages sexual...

Western culture hides the spilling of animal blood behind closed doors, but other places its a public event. In Nepal, animals are sacrificed daily...

Rituals that mark the passage from one phase of life to another are examined. Included: boys leap headfirst from a 70-foot-tall tower on an island in...

Profiling people who've gone to extreme lengths to change their looks. Included: a man with surgically attached horns; a woman said to have the...

When laws are broken, human society demands justice. But who decides which punishment best fits the crime? Taboo travels the globe to discover what...

Exploring societies that recognize more than two genders in India, Indonesia and Albania.

Some cultures incorporate mind-altering drugs into social and religious life.

Profiling outcast individuals in different societies. Included: rat catchers in India; leprosy sufferers in Nepal; scavengers in Australia.

Spotlighting extreme cuisine, from duck embryos to spiders.

Dangerous initiation rituals are spotlighted. Included: a fire dance in Papua New Guinea; riding untamed bulls in India.

Exploring cultures where people entrust their health to faith rather than modern medicine in Venezuela, Arizona and the Philippines.

A thriving black market for human organs is examined in the Philippines. Also: a look at an intimate bond between humans and pigs in Papua New...

A look at religions that measure devotion by physical suffering.

"Extreme Kids" explores child kickboxing matches in Thailand and a self-mutilation ritual for Shi'a Muslims in India.

Profiling individuals whose jobs entail handling human remains in Manila; Los Angeles; and Bangkok.