the only things i haven't done are kids, > animals and corpses. i'm not bragging or anything. why is it that for > some of us sex is just like fixing a salad and some other people would > have a hemorrhage if i told them about my sexual life? why is sex such > taboo?
wally, here in the philippines where 85% are roman catholics and more than half of the schools are sectarian, discussing sex publicly is very heavily frowned upon though not forbidden. the conservatism of the people here because of 300+ years of spanish colonization contributed to that. we discussed sex education in highschool as part of the biology class but almost all of us were grinning stupidly because its the first time something so apparently taboo is discussed in class and given an academic bent; the other half of us were blushing as we take down notes to hide our embarrassment. it was that circa 1984 when i was in highschool. now as a teacher, when i ask my students a rhetorical question like: "why are some countries in europe almost have zero growth rate and they can discuss sex with relative openness than we do here; while here in our country, we usually giggle first to indicate that we are uncomfortable discussing sex openly, but our annual growth rate is 2.35!!!" in the philippines, the church is allergic to phrases like "population control" and they opt for politically correct terms like "population minimization" which are basically the same. i understand that population control sounds mercenary in the ears of people here, and so, kid-gloving the words just won't do. the philippines rank 14th in terms of population. joseph in manila (who was raised in catholic schools from elementary to high school grades and who still can't utter cuss words in tagalog, although quite fluent in obscene english words)
