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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 04:33 PM
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Why are Americans so freakin uptight?
http://www.trojangames.co.uk/

This sort of thing is definately not unusual in Europe. When I first got to Germany there was a beer add with a partiularly well endowed mermaid, sans shells, on a kiosk poster. C'mon people! It's just skin!

Oh...fair warning...I'm sure someone is going to get offended by the link.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 04:41 PM
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1. our puritanical roots
is probably the reason, as well as the fact that America is more religious than most of Europe.

If I'm not mistaken, a James Bond movie in Europe has nudity, but takes out some of the violence, while the American version deletes the nudity, but has all the violence.
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 04:43 PM
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2. I think I may need to wait until I get home to view.
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 05:01 PM
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3. I do not know...
and I do not understand. The fact is...I'm a freak.
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Kanary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 05:02 PM
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4. In part, because we have mixed violence with sexuality.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 05:04 PM
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5. shame and guilt are hard to overcome when the god
tells you you will go to a lake of fire for enjoying your body and the body of a lover.


Rise up against this kind of debilitating shame and guilt!
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 05:26 PM
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6. I don't get it - what's at the link?
I clicked expecting to see buxom topless mermaids, but nothing? What gives? I'm offended I didn't get to be offended!
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