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My boyfriend went to Germany to stay for a year his Freshman college year. He said that in Germany, they have many sex shops and that it is clean and decent and out in the open. They don't view sex like we do, they have shows and films that you can watch, and it isn't looked down upon and is just part of the culture. Why don't we have them here? Why are we Americans so uptight and stupid when it comes to sex? Yet we have no problem with violence which is much worse. Is it the religious uptight people that fight to have these places outlawed? Churches are free to exist, why not sex shops?

2007-09-06 07:37:14 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Kitty, I'm a minority, I can't be racist....

2007-09-06 07:41:13 · update #1

33 answers

you guessed it, because of religion.

we do have sex shops, just not as out in the open.

2007-09-06 07:41:38 · answer #1 · answered by Bluto Blutarsky16 2 · 10 7

There are a lot of things that other countries have that the christians in the USA try to shoot down. Sex is so looked down upon by the christians in this country you'd think they would have outlawed it altogether. But I'm sure it isn't just sex shops. It seems that anywhere in the USA that christians are plentiful the towns and even the states have less of everything that other states and towns with less christians have. Here in the Bible Belt the only things that are plentiful are churches, banks, and Wal-Mart Supercenters. I've been up to Wisconsin and there are stores up there I had never even heard of before I went up there. In fact Janesville, Wisconsin is the first place I've ever been to where I've seen a Wal-Mart, a Target, and a K-Mart all in the same intersection. Of course this was before Wal-Mart moved into the BIGGEST Wal-Mart Building I have ever seen (if a person usually spends one hour in Wal-Mart they will easily spend two in this one, one hour shopping and one hour walking) Plus it seems people up north who aren't in the bible belt are a bit more friendly at least when I went up there they were.

2007-09-06 08:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by Cat's Eye Angie 3 · 0 0

We do have sex related shops, although not like they do in europe. I think in the case of the US some of it has to do with our puritan background. Unfortunately the puritans had what I, as a Catholic would call, a heretical view of sex. They viewed sex as something bad and dirty. The reality, however, is that sex was created by God, and is therefore a good thing.

Don't get me wrong though; the flip side of that coin, are the hugh heffners of the world. Hugh Heffner and others like him tried to answer this puritanical view of sex by going to the opposite and equally false extreme. This is because they exploit sex by arrousing people's lust. And lust does not equal love. He can say that his magazine is artistic all he wants, but a straight male cannot look at playboy magazine and not get arroused. You can't say the same thing about the artwork of naked people in the sisteen chapel in the vatican.

Overall, I would put european sex shops in the second category. Although sex should not be taboo like the puritans once believed, these sex shops do not have the remedy either.

For more info see this article. There are also a lot more articles there if you're interested in this topic.

http://www.theologyofthebody.com/11-10-06.asp

2007-09-06 07:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by Thom 5 · 0 0

You're right about the differing attitudes toward sex, but I'm wondering where you are that you don't have sex shops? Here in NYC, there's a corridor along 8th Ave, and several in the West Village, then there's San Francisco... there's a store in Denver that does not hide what it is, and its right next door to a supertarget. So its not that there are NO sex shops in the US, just fewer, and they're more discreet.

2007-09-06 07:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by 2Bs 3 · 0 0

The shops are out there, you just have to search for them. But yes the fact remains that the US has way more sexual hang-ups than other countries. My guess is that it's due to religion, along with the whole anti-sex ideology that calls itself "feminism". This is the only country who could produce somebody as whacked as Adnrea "porn is violence against women" Dworkin.

Just look at the whole uproar over the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident. A breast shows for a fraction of a second, and everybody is enraged by what half of the population could see by just looking down their own shirt. If that happened in England or Germany, people would just laugh and that would be that. Hell, we even had Ashcroft covering up the breast of the Lady Justice statue.

2007-09-06 07:45:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

Germany,one of the cleanest most beautiful counties in the world.Odd the people I know from there are home tending to gardens and making linens.Anyway there are a million sex shops in the U.S.They are every where.

2007-09-06 07:54:43 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0 0

In America we are all about Freedom- Sex shops do nothing more than enslave the people who work there.

We are above that kind of dispicible behavior.

America is the greatest place in the world to live because we are our own country- or at least we used to be. We need to continue to be our own country and not look at other countries and give into their "peer pressure" if we want to remain great.

2007-09-06 07:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Natural science (not just religion) reveals to us that the purpose of sexuality is to create life. This is the primary reason that men and women have sexual organs. The pleasureable aspect of sex is secondary. Religion teaches us that there is nothing on earth more sublime and sacred than the creation of human life, for it is from human life united with God that the awareness and realization of beauty, virtue, and holiness flows. When you combine natural science with religion you come to the conclusion that it is important for us to keep the creation of life primary and pleasure secondary in our understanding of human purpose. Sex shops, pornography, contraception and other forms of sexual immorality invert the relationship between creation and pleasure, making pleasure the primary and sole purpose of sex. It does Germany no credit to flaunt its sex shops and explicit films; and it is good that in the USA these things are hidden and less evident. In the best of worlds they would not exist at all.

2007-09-06 08:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by morkie 4 · 0 0

Two things....

First off, there are sex shops in America, but if you meant prostitution vendors, they're illegal here. There are, however, shops that sell sex toys, movies, magazines, etc. Some even have video viewing booths for customers. There are also private clubs, most members-only, that cater to different sexual lifestyles, but absolutely forbid prostitution of any kind.

Second, being a minority doesn't mean you can't be racist, honey. And you're really sadly mistaken if you think that's true.

2007-09-06 07:45:03 · answer #9 · answered by OhKatie! 6 · 4 1

Apparently sex is worse than violence. But the problem is that they are both sin in the eyes of God. They are both equally evil. Both Murder and Adulterers are on the hit list of the Ten Commandments. Jesus a few a step further.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 3:15

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matt. 5:27-28

This country chooses it's sin of violence while europe chooses its sin of lust and adultery.

Only a matter of time before the hammer of God comes down on both countries.

2007-09-06 08:14:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm not sure any of it is a "problem."

Frankly, as a Christian, I'd rather see clean decent sex shops.

That said, I do think there's a proper perspective on sex that gets missed... mostly by younger people. Sex is a communications tool (please excuse any inadvertant pun)... among other things, of course. To me, its always been a way to communicate a deep love that otherwise defies words. Its only in the last 10 years or so that its become less goal-oriented for me.

Sex ain't about the toys... its about that communication.

I dunno.... maybe I'm full o' dung. But it works for me.

Regards

2007-09-06 07:48:13 · answer #11 · answered by Green is my Favorite Color 4 · 0 0

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