Gas water heaters are less energy efficient than electric heaters, but the cost of electricity itself makes the running costs of an electric heater higher. Gas water heaters also have a much faster recovery rate, which makes them a convenient option for larger families.
A taboo is a vehement prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake.[1][2] Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies.[1] The word has been somewhat expanded in the social sciences to strong prohibitions relating to any area of human activity ...
fetish. 1  any object believed by some person or group to have magic power. 2  any thing or activity to which one is excessively or irrationally devoted: to make a fetish of sports. 3  an habitual sexual response by a person to any object (as a glove) or body part (as the foot) not conventionally regarded as erotic.