Taboo Episode Guide

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Extreme Eats

Original Airdate: 2008-09-10

Synopsis:

What one can eat may be nothing more than mind over matter.

Trial by Fire

Original Airdate: 2008-09-03

Synopsis:

Many traditional cultures require boys to pass through initiations of pain and fear in order to become men.

Extreme Healing

Original Airdate: 2008-08-27

Synopsis:

Stepping beyond the bounds of modern science to place health in the hands of the spirit world.

Body Extremes

Original Airdate: 2008-08-20

Synopsis:

An Australian health therapist drinks his own urine; men and women in the Philippines sell their kidneys to wealthy foreigners; a woman in Papua New Guinea breast-feeds a pig.

Supreme Devotion

Original Airdate: 2008-08-13

Synopsis:

Some religions measure piety by physical suffering and self-inflicted pain.

Touching Death

Original Airdate: 2008-08-06

Synopsis:

A man evicts bodies from rented burial plots in Manila; an autopsy entrepreneur contracts out his services; a woman performs Buddhist rituals at the scene of a fatal car accident.

Extreme Kids

Original Airdate: 2008-08-06

Synopsis:

Indian children participate in a self-mutilation ritual; young children kickbox for extra income for their families in Thailand; a 5 year-old continues to be breast fed.