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If you look at tribal societies today there can be severe physical consequences to violating taboo things (especially in the middle east). I would say it was stronger than collective aversion.
most of those societies today are heavily influenced by outside forces...in the case of your example, Islam, which formed in a more developed society. Before agriculture/cities, those influences and laws didn't exist. You can look to early studies of !kung bushmen, andaman islanders, or highlanders in new guinea for closer analogues. And aside from that, the "severe physical consequences" you percieve may not be perceived as such by their culture, many things we see as vile or torturous are not punishments to them at all (and certainly not government imposed).
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