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[_reticence]

There is a newspot on TV right now about how scandalized North Texans were when they realized that a photo in their German language textbooks showed a newspaper stand prominently displaying "adult" magazines. The schooled was "apalled" and parents were irate. The school apologized profusely and have pulled all of the textbooks from schools. The

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[rivermilk]

When I worked at the used bookstore in Ada, most of our daily profits came from people buying porn mags. The diversity of the people buying them was just as varied as the magazines themselves. The paradoxical hypocrisy of the Midwest never fails, man. It's like, oh, sure, we can have printed erotica, we can have homosexuality and titty-fucking and rimjobs but we can't ever ever talk about them or accept their existence in an open, nonjudgemental environment because that would just be wrong.

Also, this. Because I once thought very strongly of moving to Germany as well. It never hurts to have a friendly heads-up.

[_reticence]

I've seen that site before. I have actually already purchased books and moving to Germany. I've made it a SERIOUS goal that I want to live there within 5 years. The only issue, really, with being an expat over there is that they have a pretty huge unemployment rate right now.

Fuck puritans. Fuck Texas.

[diapholom]

their refusal to believe in the seedier or more primal elements of our nature.

it's not a refusal to believe but an acknowledgment that your reptilian brain will get you nowhere fast

why don't you indulge on your "seedier or more primal elements" and see where that leads you?

[eleven_eleven]

germans are some really kinky people. i guess you'd be in good company.

and yeah, i worked at TOWER records before they went kaput and i had the weirdest, frailest, teeny-tiniest, had to be 90 years old at least guy walk into the store as soon as it opened on sunday mornings and buy the gayest porn we had...the ONLY VHS left, no less.

this is what we get for witchburning buckleheads being the ones to first colonize this country. many are descendents of nutjobs who couldn't practice their insanely fundamentalist christian religion back in europe, so they set up their funny farms here. that alone is a good reason to seek shelter elsewhere. we're surrounded by lunatics.

[_reticence]

I think it's just really sad. These are the people that outlawed VIBRATORS. What kind of grouchy, repressed fuck outlaws vibrators?

[eleven_eleven]

I have a personal theory that everyone that's into saying stuff like 'sex is only for procreation' never could a. figure out how to put the batteries in the right way or b. had a good lay.

[diapholom]

and I can't tell you how many times I had a straight-laced, obviously MARRIED man wearing a crisp business suit come in and buy a stack of the dirtiest, more explicit GAY magazines that we carried

perception is reality....you must be a very good judge of people basing from their appearances

most metrosexuals & homosexuals dissimulate like that because they're still ashamed of appearing gay

did you see the ring on their left finger by any chance?

[perfectpen]

Well, you know, that does sound like American behavior. Some school in Florida made a huge deal about a Sarah Dessen book because it talks about rape, and it's a young adult book. Uh, what? If you read the book, it works. And there's nothing tacky or tasteless about it. However, people just flip out over the stupidest things.

[agraphia]

hahaha. ironically for over a hundred years now one of the most popular euphemisms for homosexuality is 'the german disease'.