Taboos

We were discussing during lunch about Toshirô Mifune's "Seven Samurai" and how for a 1950's movie the japanese really had a totally different view on sexuality. How it wasn't nearly as taboo to discuss various things and how it's was more accepeted. Seeing as you wouldn't see hardly anything sexual in an American 1950's movie. My thought was about how the country was started by alot of religions individuals. That maybe the waythis country views alot of things such as sexuality and nudity stem from original societial beliefs.
... Then I wondered ... I wonder what Australia is like as alot of the first people there were British felons.