America is a Puritanical country. Thank you England, for sending us you most sensually-inhibited people -- the Puritans, to begin our country in the 17th century in Massachusetts. The Colonial History of the US also brought the French and the Spanish empires into conflict with what amounts to by then established populations of religious refugees from across the world.
What that really means is that even in "sun country" areas of the US the body shape is hidden, skin is covered, and sexual practices were tightly controlled. Pornography is some people's only access to sensual living -- hardly a smart way to be. The intimacy and balance that comes with living a sexual life complementing every other aspect of life: family, fellowship, friendship, mores, education, knowledge, compassion, love, concern, etc. is lost!
One could argue that the soul of America shifted during the "sexual revolution" in the 20th Century but you would be mostly wrong. Why? The old Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic, and even biblical religious traditions continue to descry sexuality as sinful, and desire as morally wrong. Amazing!
Thousands of years after man's appearance in the "thinking world" and Americans are still confused about what sexuality is all about. We are still afraid of it. We still punish it. We still brandish "hell" as the ultimate payment for being sexual, for being "loving."
So even as you summer "sun worshipers" ply the beaches, lakes, and streams of America consider that seeing so much skin in America makes you teeter on the edge of total immorality. So say the aged prophets of sin. And they are everywhere around us.
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