Read this off-beat news story about scantily-clad women sellling betelnut in Taiwan, then sent the URL to LIlith. She's posted it on the sex news forum, if you wish to read what I'm talking about. The real question, however, comes from a quote at the end of it:

"As to whether the girls hurt our national image, I know there are nudist camps in the United States and in other countries. I don't know if people will view the United States as an erotic country."

So, yeah. Is the US an erotic country? We do indeed have nudists camps, swingers groups, singles bars and the like which would say yes. Or, is the sexual repression of the Christain right still too prevalent?

How do people both in the US and abroad see us?

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The US is definatly not an erotic country, but neither is Puerto Rico...(No offense Sharni, but Puerto Rico isnt a country it is a property of the US), I always think of European countries when i think of erotic.

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I amend mine as well....an erotic country is anywhere Sharni is

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I think France when I think erotic . . .

.... and tht too! LMAO

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I have been to Taiwan and have seen the "scantily clad women selling the betelnut" and believe me for the most part they are DEFINITELY NOT erotic!! Most of them are down right ugly! Scantily clad....yes but their heads look like they were plucked right off of a grubworm! The betelnut was pretty good though! The US is big enough that part of it are erotic. Depends on the time too. Ever been to Mardis Gras? That could be classified as erotic on some nights and other times just a wild time.

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Bits of the US are, eg San Francisco, New Orleans. European - Greece, Italy, Spain, France and Sweden. The UK ? well definitly Bognor Regis.

Wild as eyes.

U.S.A. isn't realy erotic after all, all we have is a limp dick (Florida).
Maybe it's because the the hand (Michigan) is so far away maybe if Michigan moved down by Florida we might have a little excitment.
But then again maybe the U.S.A. has just got finished and the keys are drops left over

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ok enough joking around

I'm not sure if a country can be erotic tyhe people that live there can be view as erotic in that case as a whole U.S.A. isn't erotic but there are places that are.

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a shot in the bush is worth two in the hand

whip me, beat me, tie me up, break my arm, but please don't break my heart

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid people are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" -Bertrand Russell

i prefer flavor country. *deep drag... nasty, hacking smoker's cough* ahhh... welcome to satisfaction. population: me.

I have to agree.... I dont se the U.S. as a very erotic country although a lot of people that I've met are

I don't think the US has an erotic 'image', as a country. As a foreigner who hasn't visited the country, the way it comes across to me, is a little bit prudish and somewhat self righteous. The US puts across a 'clean cut cheer-leader' type image which betrays the pulsing passion which throbs beneath its somewhat anti-septic exterior.

As for my own green and pleasant land, I'd say sexual: yes, erotic: no. We are always in there first with the smutty jokes and the dirty gossip (just look at our tabloid press) but haven't the faintest clue, as a collective, about sensuality, eroticism and the art of love.

And here is the disclaimer: these are my perceptions of these two great Nations based on the images they portray to the rest of the world. The true nature of the individuals who live there are more likely than not, very different from the external image we see. So please don't be offended, Pixie-people!x

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