Why are Americans so terrified of sex and the human body?

I’m rubbing my sphincter

OP look up “Puritanism” and it’s affect of the development of the country

R1 THIS. The prudishness baked into American culture stems back to the puritanical colonies. Also, the taboos of sex and nudity serve U.S. capitalism by being reserved for use in advertising and popular entertainment to arouse interest in consumers by teasing at nudity and sex with scantily clad models and erotic innuendo. If Americans always saw nude beachgoers or people fucking in the park, they’d be too jaded to care, and the revenue stream to the media conglomerates would diminish down to a trickle.

OP, why do you feel the need to post a false claim?

You're a trolling shit. Please close the lid and be flushed.

The problem here is you allow peeing in public and public nudity, common sense and restraint aren't things the Walmart-type of Americans are known for. They don't get embarrassed. So if you allow it as a "no big deal it's done elsewhere" type thinking, masses and hoardes will start letting it fly and using public spaces as a toilet and showing their kibbles and bits that no one wants to see.

Have you not seen what happens in places like Daytona, Sturgis, South Padre Island, Lake Havasu, Vegas, etc? It's not Europe. There's no class in many walks of life here.

We’re still doing better than Ireland.

In Europe, they have pissoirs that guys casually walk up to, do #1, zip up, and go about their business. No washing hands, nothing. If this was in the US, people would scream that it's indecent and unsanitary, and forbid little Kayleigh catching a glimpse of a grown man's flaccid penis!

Keep it hidden is my motto

Sacre Bleu!

Americans have sex outdoors or in cars, but they find private places to do so. It's considered bad taste to perform sex acts in public in front of strangers.

Remember, half of Americans are below average

I seem to have missed the "heaven" in "heaven forbid." Oh, well!

Let me be the first to say, "Oh, dear."

OP look up “Puritanism” and it’s affect of the development of the country

R7 stop spreading falsehoods. Those urinals are not all over in Europe, they are typically brought in for parties and events and often a street is closed for men only to use them. Yes, we do sunbathe, swim, and use the sauna naked. And if you are not a puritan it really is no big deal.

Because in the U.S. sex is a commodity, and in order to make money off it you have to keep it naughty and unattainable.

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We're 100 years behind Europe. Weren't the Victorian English prudish? ("No sex please, we're British" was a long running play)

No sex please, if you don't mind! ;)

In Europe, over a 1200 women were sexually assaulted by men of mostly North African origin on NYE in Germany. The media and government initially tried to hide what had happened.

Europeans need to shut the fuck up.

[quote] In Europe, they have pissoirs that guys casually walk up to, do #1

They're named Erna and they wear mom jeans!

R18 According this video at 3:08, it was feminist leaders who loved these muslims anyways

I posted this ad on another thread (Visa vs Mastercard discussion). I was living and working in Europe at the time this was released, and friends in advertising - not the ones behind the ad - commented that it could never be shown in the US because of the puritan attitudes to nudity.

We are weird about this. I hate the phrase "we were founded by Puritans." It's mainly bullshit. But they did get into our souls, and we do live with their legacy. We are really pretty fucked up by puritanism when it comes to the body and sex and nudity.

R22, nice ass on that dude.

R21, I meant.

They are so terrified that they even remove the foreskin from the glans of boys. This will lead to a condition called "dry glans" and makes men even less likely to wear condoms because they already feel less, which in return leads to more unwanted children and stds. Way to go puritans, you ruined your lives just because you didn't want to accept sex and skin -.-

They’re not. Americans are the world’s boldest sluts.

Americans: puritans in public, perverts in private.

A country of nine-year-olds.

R13, Um, okay.

R27 has obviously never been to the Folsom Street Fair.

Keep it hidden

[quote]People sunbathe and go swimming in the nude.

I'm not a prude but no one wants see saggy titted old men and women naked. Very few people should actually be naked.

What is once seen can never be unseen.

Why do all Americans always get lumped together with the christian , middle America and southern loons?

I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid of doing anal in public.

I’m not afraid of drinking piss in public

OP lots of people have sex in public, concealed places. Last time I was caught the cop actually just said "take it to your home".

Women will blame The Matriarchy and then will be the first ones to Write A Letter.

I’m not afraid of doing double anal on the county courthouse lawn

Why this preoccupation with going around in the nude? Is it just Western societies that do this?

Yes, only you!

Fat bodies with gunts and FUPAs and mutilated dongs - do you think the Americans should be proud of their bodies?

Of course leave it for the uncut troll at r25 to turn this into something about circumcision

R32, keep thee away from German beaches.

And the Japanese blur out genitals in porn. Who cares? Is anyone really being deprived, here? Is some poor bastard going to die just because he absolutely must have his dong out in the most public location possible? No? Then stop whinging.

We have better teeth.

What's wrong with going out and about like this?

This just in: Europe is not the same as the United States. Why, oh, why?!

Got people in dog costumes fucking in the street and you think that America is too prudish.

It's not just gay people, there are people literally fucking at Mardi Gras but that's too repressive somehow.

I'm not an exhibitionist or a voyeur and I'd like to go back to some place of sanity where it's not all right to helicopter your dick on the bus or to fuck on the sidewalk.

This sort of sexual expression does not represent me at all.

r42 Circumcision in America did start with the anti-masturbation movement in the late 19th century. A quote from a doctor at the time:

"In all cases of masturbation circumcision is undoubtedly the physician's closest friend and ally... To obtain the best results one must cut away enough skin and mucous membrane to rather put it on the stretch when erections come later. There must be no play in the skin after the wound has thoroughly healed, but it must fit tightly over the penis, for should there be any play the patient will be found to readily resume his practice, not begrudging the time and extra energy required to produce the orgasm. It is true, however, that the longer it takes to have an orgasm, the less frequently it will be attempted, consequently the greater the benefit gained...

The younger the patient operated upon the more pronounced the benefit, though occasionally we find patients who were circumcised before puberty that require a resection of the skin, as it has grown loose and pliant after that epoch." – Dr. E.J. Spratling

As late as the 1950s Dr. Spock recommended it to prevent circumcision. They also promoted putting acid on girls' clitorises.

R48 - that sounds so horrible.

[quote] keep thee away

Oh dear.

R47 Why would anyone take a child to a pride parade? It’s a celebration of sexuality. Oh, that’s right. Gays are lame now and want to have kids for some reason.

Not everybody has a beautiful body. In fact, most people don't. I guess Europeans like looking at flabby guts and asses and tits. And pissing in public is fine and dandy there? Do they poop in public too? Well, that sounds lovely, taking a walk and seeing somebody pissing or shitting on the street. Europeans can have their public nudity and pissing and shitting. Sounds pretty disgusting to me.

Europe can go too far the other way. On the beaches of France, a typical sight is a woman of mature years, in some cases, well into old age, very often obese, wearing only a bikini bottom, sunbaking themselves to the colour of fried chicken. For the most part, the French do bathe daily and women do shave their legs and armpits, but deodorant use is far from universal. Anyone who has stayed in a French hospital knows that the level of hygiene leaves much to be desired. The French actually have a belief that if you are too hygienic, you lose your immunity to germs.

The French man thinks the world is his toilet. There are actually urinals on the walls of parking garages so that they will not pee between the cars. In the morning, you see shop assistants washing down the exterior of plate glass windows on which men have urinated. Women aren't all that much better. Walking in the woods, you will see scraps of toilet paper left behind after women have relieved themselves.

R21: That's a world-class bum, IMO.

R52 pooping in public is only done in San Francisco.

No, no shitting. That seems to be uniquely American and Chinese. But they will avoid picking up after their dogs, if they can.

R53

While Americans are prudes, the openness of Europeans is wildly overstated. I went to a sauna in Helsinki, hoping it would be clothing optional, but it wasn’t…clothes were mandatory. I went to a bath/spa in Budapest…same thing. Mountain retreat/spas in Germany and Austria: clothes required.

And despite claims nudity is common in parks or at beaches, it’s very, very, very rare you actually see it (and when you do it’s always some old man with leathery skin and a body that would look better fully clothed).

We're not afraid of sex and the human body at all. We are simply not raised to live like wild animals who just fuck or expel our bodily waste for the world to see. Most of us are raised to have a modicum of modesty & dignity about ourselves.

No idea, I've also noticed their gays are super precious about anal; you can see that shit all the time here on DL, pun intended. Never seen anything like that with gays from literally any other country. Still perplexed as to how such snowflakes won two world wars, lol.

[quote] I went to a sauna in Helsinki, hoping it would be clothing optional, but it wasn’t…clothes were mandatory. I went to a bath/spa in Budapest…same thing.

Where in Budapest did you go? The sprawling inner-city Bade that I visited was clothing optional and did have many naked patrons, though all the alarmed foreign tourists stayed conspicuously clothed.

The water from that place gave me a raging ENT infection that had lasting effects, FWIW. Nudity is the least of the problem.

R60 I wouldn't get into any public place like that. Petri dish full of bacteria.

Didn't someone post a video caught on a European beach of a woman sucking her husband off under a towel in front of their kids?

OP, is this like the posters who argued that all bathroom facilities in Europe are unisex? But then several European posters said it wasn't true.

Europe is very diverse. Do you mean certain European countries?

OP got a point though - see this thread about Speedos. Americans get all uptight about them, most of the rest of the world shrugs and doesnt give a shit

[Quote]Most of us are raised to have a modicum of modesty & dignity about ourselves.

Prisspot censor.

In Spain we have TV movies that show nude guys in natural scenarios like getting out of bed in the morning and heading to the bathroom. Dick swinging all the way. Nobody thinks twice about it. This never happens in the USA.

R64, define "most of the rest of the world". Name the individual countries.

That Speedos thread was fucking ridiculous. "You should get ARRESTED for wearing one, because it offends those in Lincoln, Nebraska!"

R65 Do you have any tea on which Spanish actors are gay? I'm not talking about those who are already out, like Omar from Elite. I want to know about the closet cases. The hot ones (obviously, lol). Do you know anything about the actors from Alma, are they gay?

R57 clearly does not know where to go. I can take you to 7 parks in Berlin with so many peni on display it looks like a field of asparagus.

R32 Poor little you. I'm sure seeing old men and women naked is causing you nightmares and many sleepless nights.

Her European roots are showing...

Did I touch a nerve R70?

R72 Nah, just hate boring prudes like you.

Sorry r73 I'm neither boring or a prude and perhaps you should lighten up? This is DL.

R25 = insane

Why are so many Brits & Euros so terrified of toothbrushes and daily baths. Is there a phobia in Britain of putting a brush to your teeth once in a while? Are so many people on the continent mortally terrified of standing under a stream of water or submersing themselves into a bathtub and putting soap to their skin? The idea of having a "bath day" once a week went out long ago.

Wash ya nasty asses people! And brush those yellow teeth. Rid yourselves of the funk, and the mung.

Brits & Euros? Brits are Euros, dummy. Why are Muricans so uneducated and bad at geography?

Some of us aren't R77. You can't lump entire groups of people together as we all know.

Oh, did the UK finally wise up and join the EU? Until they do they are not Euros in many people's eyes.

Does foreskin clean someone's mouth with its mucosa?

Most Italians are extremely clean, as are their homes.

[quote]define "most of the rest of the world". Name the individual countries.

R66 Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam (know many of these from personal experience) This is not a complete list

Its only the USA and maybe Canada where people get weird about Speedos

I thought speedo dislike was more of a female thing. Every woman I know finds them gross.

R79 So Norwegians and Swiss people aren't Euros either since their countries aren't in European Union? Brilliant.

R84 I think they are African because of the colonies.

Good we should be anti sex. Sex is one of the lowest forms of pleasure, yet people here seem to be so obsessed! There are way more pleasures such as the arts, theatre, music etc. Nope. People just want to get their dicks wet and call it a day.

Sex should only be reserved for reproduction and that’s it. Stop having it everywhere and obsessing about it. Most you people are gross and only interested in satisfying your carnal desires for the flesh.

R86 is typing that while being present here:

R86 is the next gay bar shooter.

Because as unself-aware as we are (plus delusional and possibly insane compared to the rest of the world in psychology and worldview), most of us here know we're fucking ugly and no one wants to see it.

You can see the culture of prudishness manifest on DL with the almost infantile obsessions of some of the posters, who've grown up with it in Bumfuckleville. Whereas european gay men are more inclined to have much more of a relaxed attitude to the body.

I've heard there's been a decrease of public nudity in Europe because of cell phones. Lots of people don't want to to be caught on camera with their clothes off.

A classic case was MTV banning Queen's I Want To Break Free video.

It didn't happen in 1954. It was in fucking 1984!!!

Just incredible. It's still incredible. Bewildering if one is european. But then America didn't that have that deeply entrenched Brit culture of drag.

As an example, here from 1976 is standard BBC Saturday night family fare, with Danny La Rue.

Need it be said: Middle Americ has never been comfortable with innuendo either – which is almost the soul of British humour.

True, R91; you almost never see a topless young woman on the beach now compared to the past. No shortage of 45+ ones however.

Good keep it in the bedroom. No one cares about your naked body. There’sa time and place for it.

The big question is why are Americans so bothered about sex and swearing, and so little bothered by violence? (The things you can't say on network TV in the US amaze the rest of us, yet you can show school shootings on the nightly news without a care in the world.)

Peeing in public? were you raised in a barn?

Do we really need to see a bunch of fat Americans naked?

R96 we show school shootings on the news because it's actually happening. A better comparison is the violence on TV shows and film.

R96. it's called having standards, we don't allow swear words on certain TV channels. so anything goes in your third world country?

Dunno why some of you get so upset by the idea of having to look at an old person naked. Always found it weird to describe someone’s body as ‘disgusting’ just because of natural aging. Seems loserish. Nudity isn’t something to turn your nose up at, it just is. If you don’t have the mental capacity to see another person that you don’t find sexually attractive nude, don’t go to a nude beach, oh and see a therapist?

R101, your comment would have more merit if it didn't start with "dunno".

Eww. No one wants to see the average person, American or European, do those things. Most of us are average looking at best, the less of you I have to see, the better.

[quote] Always found it weird to describe someone’s body as ‘disgusting’ just because of natural aging.

There are plenty of 'natural' aspects and functions of the human body that are disgusting. And there are, indeed, young people with disgusting bodies.

[quote] And there are, indeed, young people with disgusting bodies.

I disagree with you on this R104 but as you’ve shown there sure are disgusting personalities!

Six is scary. When those huge cocks destroy my ass, you betcha!

[quote]I disagree with you on this [R104]

K.

No sex, please!

We’re Americans!

The gross topless bodies in Europe are not on designated nude beaches; they are on all public beaches.

Have you seen their bodies?

Yes, R100. In my third world country (whose economy is travelling better than yours but never mind) there are restrictions during children's viewing hours, but after 9.30 pm you can say what you like on free-to-air TV. We show stand-up comedy specials that start out on the streaming services without censorship, and you know how fruity they can be.

If we'd censored Will Smith on the Oscars, you guys still wouldn't know he wasn't kidding around. A classic example of where you were allowed to see the violence but not the subsequent verbal abuse.

You say "standards". I say "Yes, we have those standards too -- for children." We prefer to treat adults as though they've heard swearing before.

Religion poisons everything.

R112, it is probably no coincidence that in my third world country "No religion" is the second-biggest answer to the Religion question in the Census, only 4% behind Christianity (as a whole: if you break Christianity down to its parts, No Religion trumps each of them easily). Furthermore, in each of the last four or five Censuses, No Religion has been increasing at the same rate that Christianity is falling. The Religion question is voluntary but 93% of people answered it on the last Census, so the figures are pretty reliable.

Even better, the authorities had to stop people writing "Jedi" this last time, because it was starting to overtake some of the conventional religions. You don't get a lot of kidding around about religion in the States.

Good for you!

But a lot of third world countries, at least in Africa, are very God-believing. I think I remember a survey of Nigerians and 98% said they did believe in God.

I was almost comforted (that we're not the only morons on the planet who still belief in a fairy daddy who oversees everything we do and helps us hit home runs and, well, just anything we ask him to do - and we beg other people to pray for our home runs too, because, uh, he probably has a spreadsheet and counts the prayers before he decides who to reward... I mean some people might call that crazy but my country wuvs our sky daddy, his son and some sort of ever present apparition we call the "Holy Ghost" that follows us everywhere like the anime hero Light and his shinigami. Oh something like that... Maybe it's in Two Corinthians.

Americans are terrified of sex because America was colonized by those European religious nuts who escaped Europe for fear of execution whose sanctimonious ideology inserted itself into the new world's cultural DNA.

We probably will never be self-aware enough to admit it but religion has fucked up the USA just as much as it's fucked up Saudi Arabia or Iran. Not sure I can think of any other similar examples - though there probably are some. India under Modi? And in general with those infernal castes.

[quote] Nudity isn’t something to turn your nose up at, it just is. If you don’t have the mental capacity to see another person that you don’t find sexually attractive nude, don’t go to a nude beach, oh and see a therapist?

Oh fuck off, you clod. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to see the naked bodies of random people, so you can take that "mental capacity" shit and shove it sideways. You sound like the one in need of a good mental health professional. If it pleases you to ogle the naked bodies of strangers then you definitely have some screws loose.

Culturally we need to encourage more celibacy. Humans are too obsessed over sex.

[quote] If it pleases you to ogle the naked bodies of strangers then you definitely have some screws loose.

Neither pleases nor displeases me R117. Seems like you have a fragile emotional state if you get upset by someone being nude in a public space where it’s ok for people to be nude. V prudish / judgmental of you in a rly childish way. Grow up babe.

Is this how monkeypox has spread?

It's a bit childish to accuse someone who doesn't want to look at ugly naked bodies of being prudish or being "bothered". It doesn't bother me at all, I just prefer to not see ugly people naked. That's why I decided medicine was not a good career choice for me.

R121 But how do you avoid looking in the mirror every day?

I avoid that too.😁 😉

I love my body. I’m hot.

We're all 2 Hot 2be Believed on the DL.

I workout 4-5 days a week for 60 minutes of HIIT. I am proud of my body everywhere.

[quote] Seems like you have a fragile emotional state if you get upset by someone being nude in a public space where it’s ok for people to be nude. V prudish / judgmental of you in a rly childish way. Grow up babe.

There's nothing "prudish" or "judgemental" about not wanting to see the asses and tits and dicks and pussies of strangers. Kiss my ass, babe.

Nudity is sexualized because of social conditioning. If people walked around naked every day and we were used to it. Nobody would be uncomfortable with nudity nor be easily excited by the naked body. When I took a figure drawing class, I got used to nude models pretty quickly and it lost it's taboo factor. Even hot guys who turned me on, I was able to still focus on my drawing. You then only become aroused if you think of sex. That's why people who practice nudism aren't having boners. Nudity becomes a mundane thing. The human body is not pornographic. Ancient people made nude statues and wall paintings in public spaces. Women constantly were topless. People swam in the nude. It wasn't Christianity and Islam that shame of the naked body became deeply entrenched and made into laws. The effects of Abrahamic religion stretched into Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas where indigenous people were forced to become "modest" and started to see their nudity as something to be ashsmed of.

*wasn't until

[quote] We're not afraid of sex and the human body at all. We are simply not raised to live like wild animals who just fuck or expel our bodily waste for the world to see. Most of us are raised to have a modicum of modesty & dignity about ourselves.

Yes that's why we allow children to get shot up at school, poor people to die from medical issues due to not affording good healthcare, Covid to spread and kill over a million, women's right to abortion to be banned and have the highest population of prisoners many for nonviolent offences in the Western world.

^ Also I forgot. America has the largest porn production in the world and we have celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton who got famous for sex tapes. So much for dignity and modesty too.

OP, France and Italy would disagree with you. Women are whores who are treated like garbage.

I wouldn't do that in public...