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Taboo Recreation
Overview of Today’s Session
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Can Leisure
Destroy Life?
Can Leisure
Destroy Life?
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Facts
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Taboo Recreation
• Pastimes that are forbidden by law, custom or belief.
(Russell, 1995)
Taboo Recreation
• Those pursuits in leisure deemed inappropriate, socially
unacceptable, or illegal by society that results in tradition.
Purple Recreation
• “Acts and pursuits that bring a degree of pleasure or escape
to the participants, but which suggest gross self-indulgence,
greed, immorality, or cruelty and arouse repugnance in most
of the remainder of society.”
(Curtis, 1979)
What is Purple Recreation?
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What is Purple Recreation?
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Marginal Recreation
• “Leisure-time activities that are of questionable or of
borderline morality-if not actually illegal-and that are
therefore referred to as ‘marginal’ recreation activities.”
(Kraus, 1990)
Controversy
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“Recreation is not only good for individuals,
it is also good for society.”
(Rossman, 1995)
Nash’s Pyramid
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“Recreation is a worthwhile,
socially accepted leisure experience.
(Hutchinson, 1951)
Taboo Recreation Labels
• Taboo Sex:
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Social Taboo’s
• Taboos differ in societies and also change over time.
• Can you think of any social taboos…different values that some
do not think is right?
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What About Taboo Recreation
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Taboo Recreation Labels
• Injuring Self:
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– Compulsive overuse
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“People believe these activities are wrong”
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Taboo Recreation Labels
• Injuring Others:
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Why do people engage in
unacceptable behaviors?
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Types of Vandalism
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No-other-way-to-do-it vandalism
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Types of Vandalism
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• Spin-off vandalism
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• Thrill vandalism
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Why Taboo Recreation?
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• sports spectating
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– Ex:
• youth gangs
Discussion
• Who decides what is taboo?
• What do you consider is ‘taboo’ and why?
– Be sure to respond (tactfully) to your classmates. If you agree or
disagree…and explain your position!
What Does All of This Mean?
• Purple recreation is institutionalized in the United
States.
• It takes from and contributes to American culture.
• Recreation and leisure behavior is very individualistic.
• Recreation is very commercial and that almost
anything goes as long as it pleases the participant.
Discussion:
Subject: Must recreation be good?
• What do you think….are hedonistic forms of recreation….still
“recreation” if the activity is not considered “good” by all?
– Ex: sex clubs
• Discuss what forms of recreation are socially accepted by some,
but not others
– Ex: types of recreational drug use