Would you mind dividing up the world into the two sides you have explained? We would fall onto the side of the Middle East based on your definition, no?
It's interesting to read threads from folks from Europe,particularly France,Holland and Scandinavia on threads about sex and value systems.On another site on a thread titled "Used for sex",a Frenchman's reply was awesome.He said French women don't veiw it the same way.It kinda proves my point about the Western/American value system being a by product of business and capitalism.
When a woman has sex with a man,she is seen as "giving herself to him" as if her soul rested somewhere in her vagina.Women inexperienced with sex are still seen by many as being more valuable for the long haul than a woman of experience.The Madonna/whore complex is ever alive and well.
I maintain that this is a throwback to the days of arranged marriages and dowries,where virginity actually protected a man's future progeny and inheritances with ties to family property,has very little or nothing to do with real feelings or committment or quality of relationships.It's an old ingrained system of values that has it roots firmly planted in dollars and sense.
Less capitalistic societies seem to have let these attitudes go somewhat.
Would you mind dividing up the world into the two sides you have explained? We would fall onto the side of the Middle East based on your definition, no?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In a very real sense of the world all civilization came out of the Middle East.It's just to what degree old customs and ways of thought have been adapted and watered down.Originally posted by Alex:
Would you mind dividing up the world into the two sides you have explained? We would fall onto the side of the Middle East based on your definition, no?
People are basically creatures of habit.They adopt behavior patterns and keep them long after the original reason for the pattern to be set in the first place had gone.
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