I mean,I think that knowing how HIV basically gets transmitted is something that people are afraid, that people know that they have had extra-marital sex-the whole concept of men who have sex with other men-- it's a big taboo, and the region does not want to admit that we have these groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

But in the case of film studies, that was also a taboo subject until recently.

不过电影研究，一直以来也无人问津,电影研究的热潮也就是最近几十年的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选