Kay Parker was 36 when she made Taboo , but she carries a maternal warmth and a believable vulnerability. Her Barbara is not a predator; she’s a woman starved for affection who makes a catastrophic emotional choice. Parker’s ability to cry during or after sex scenes was almost unheard of in porn at the time. Her famous line — “It’s not wrong if it feels right” — is delivered not as a seduction tactic but as a plea to herself.
Some in the crowd wept. Some cursed. A few threw stones. The mayor called the sheriff, but the sheriff hesitated—his name, too, was in the ledger; his family had been spared the worst after a Taboo buried an embarrasment years ago. The moment collapsed into an ugly scramble of old loyalties and new fear. But the seed of doubt had been sown. taboo 1 1980