Adverts featuring naked models in sexual poses cause occasional red faces.
The Taleban in Afghanistan earn the ire of the West for destroying statues, including the giant Bamiyan Buddhas. Saudi Arabia has routinely banned taboo images, memorably censoring an album cover of Welsh rock band Stereophonics because it featured young couples kissing. There is an idea that people should never be shocked - but no healthy person lives a day without being offended. In Israel, the performance of Wagner's music, still associated with Nazis, is so taboo that the Rishon Lezion Symphony Orchestra needed permission from the country's supreme court to perform the composer's work last year. But in the UK tabloids, taboo means one thing - sex.