Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  America has, since inception, been absolutely fine with violence, often celebrating it, and completely disgusted with sexuality. It’s perhaps the single most backwards thing about North American culture, imo.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But a lot of other people did that and aren’t hung up about sex.

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• guy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s fascinating that a country where a place like Hooters is normal and strip clubs are a socially acceptable place to hang out in is so worked up over sex things

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  • hayvan@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But only when it’s consensual. It’s okay when that gets violent and exploitative.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    America pop culture is fine with sex as long as it’s not two men:

    ✅ Woman kissing a woman
    ✅ Woman kissing a man
    ✅ Woman having sex with a woman
    ✅ Woman having sex with a man
    ✅ Woman having sex with herself
    ✅ Man kissing a woman (already covered)
    ❌ Man kissing a man
    ✅ Man having sex with a woman (already covered)
    ❌ Man having sex with a man
    ✅ Man having sex with himself

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Really touchy if it happens outside of a marriage though too.

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If argue that American pop culture loves two girls kissing outside of marriage way more than inside marriage lol

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think that’s changed a bit. Hooters went bankrupt, and many local governments have heavy restrictions on strip clubs, such as no nipples can be shown, no physical contact, no license to serve liquor, etc.

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    • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And that just makes the whole deal weirder. No physical contact is reasonable of course. But have a person be practically naked, dancing sensually is fine, unless there’s nipples. Can’t have that, it’s too much.

      The US is very weird.

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      • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think the laws are just meant as a soft-ban. There may be legal complications with outright banning strip clubs. The no physical contact takes away what I think make up stripper’s largest income source, and no nipples and alcohol makes it a less attractive place to go. I had a few hours to waste in a city once, waiting on a flight, and walked into one of these strip clubs. There was only one stripper there, one bartender, and I was the only customer; so I’m guessing it really did hurt the market.

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