Hello Thomas and Jim,
The US adopted the Victorian morays back in the 18th century. Those
particular morays connect very well with the conservative, puritanical,
christian culture of the christian right. After all, how better to
control people than through fear of sin?
You find something similar in China which claims no christian morays.
When you look more deeply in to both cultures, it becomes apparent that
it is all about power and control.
If I want my people to be more violent so they are more willing to fight
in wars and police actions, I will encourage them to focus on violence
so that they consider this to be the norm.
Also, I can better control people when I tell them who they can and
cannot marry (which controls who they can and cannot be legally sexual
with). When you do something which is illegal, you will tend to remain
quiet about it and hold guilt about it. This makes you more easily
controlled by those in power.
David Chittenden, MSc, CRC, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Jim,
That's certainly true for some places in Europe, but probably not all.
Some years ago I had a girl friend named Silvia who was from Germany.
When she visited the U.S. she found our society too inhibited
regarding sex. For example, over here we consider prostitution a
crime, but over in Germany, where she lived, it was completely legal
and nobody seamed to have a problem with it.
She also mentioned that she often when to the public swimming pool and
swam naked. Here in the U.S.A. If you when to the local Y.M.C.A. and
stripped down naked and jumped in the pool you would be halled off for
public indecency. Again I'm not sure why Americans have such a problem
with public nudity because if you have seen one naked man or woman
you've pretty much seen them all. We are all born with pretty much all
the same private parts attached. What is so wrong about seeing what
is natural?
So, yeah, different countries and different cultures have their own
views about sex. Some are quite open about it, and others find the
entire topic of sex offensive. ven in the same country you will find a
mixture of open minded and closed minded individuals. I'm pretty open
about it, but my in-laws treat the topic like something filthy and
dirty. That no self-respecting person wil bring sex up outside the bed
room which I find a bit too closed minded and inhibited.
On 2/28/10, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote:
Hi Johnny,
That's cool that the Japanese are less inhibited about sex than the U. S.
No wonder I have always had a thing for Japanese women. <grin> I have
always heard that the Europeans are also less inhibited. With nudity on
regular TV etc. I wonder if computer games produced in those countries
reflect their less inhibited views about sex.
BFN
Jim
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