Human Emotion
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Effects of Disgust on the Brain
If a culture says something's a delicacy, that means it's probably horrible to everybody else. The same parts of the brain light up when someone does a morally disgusting act as well as a physically disgusting one. People who are more prone to physically disgust tend to be more politically extreme. This kind of using disgust to alienate a people, a group of people, so that you can do bad things goes back a long way.
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