#1 2005-09-02 03:08:45

Khanada

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Why are Australians so darn cool?

Okay, so I'm perhaps not the most knowledgeable person out there when it comes to erotica and what's available, so perhaps this comment is a bit naive.  However, my two favorite sites--this one and abbywinters.com--are both Australian, so it makes me very curious about what things are like there (I've never been).  I live in the United States--a country that is so confused over its own relationship to sex that we go quite ballistic over the most fleeting glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast yet encourage our nine year olds to wear thongs--so, naturally, I'm interested in the sexual atmosphere/culture of Australia.  I know that Europeans (in general) don't have the same issues with the human body that Americans do--that is to say, they don't automatically associate nudity with pornography or immorality (while spending time in Europe, I remember seeing a nude model in an Italian shampoo commercial standing beneath a waterfall, and it wasn't public access television ).  Is Australia as equally liberated?  I do realize that this is a really broad question, since I am aware that not even all of the U.S. is prudish, but I really don't have the faintest clue about Australian culture (and I know I should, as I like to consider myself to be knowledgeable about such things!).  My sadly befuddled and repressed nation has found itself in the stranglehold of the ultra-ultra-conservative-religious-right-wing, and I was curious about whether Australians also deal, on this scale, with a similar political and social climate .

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erdna

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

I think Australia starts to get out of the sexual repression which prevailed for too many years.That's why one sees there a sort of sexual revolution. England did it years ago (in the seventies) like Sweden and Denmark. I don't know if this is exagerated to say that Australia stayed, until the eighties or nineties, a bit too much Victorian. North America is  quite different, there is a big difference between what is official and what actually happens. In north America, almost everything is possible provided nobody complain or you don't exceed the limit of people tolerance around you. It depends where you are. If you are in San Franscico, then almost everything goes unlike the middle west. Spain too is living now a sexual revolution after centuries of restrictions both from the catholic church or the government. We can say that Internet makes it easier.

Tellin

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

I don't know. I kinda thought it was because things are exactly the opposite there as in the States. When it's winter here, it's summer there. Hell even the water drains in the opposite direction down under.

And in both places, the people think their world is normal.

CottonO

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

Yeah, I've also wondered why Australians are so cool.  It's like the whole country is what California should be and with an English accent to boot.  Have you ever noticed that you never see a picture of a frowning Australian?  How could you not like a country that has a mascot that looks like a teddy bear?  Let's face it, Australia is just plain neat.

CottonO

Vaudeville

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

CottonO puts it well. Australia is neat indeed (at least that's my impression of it; I have never been) and must be a great place to live in. However, I am given to understand that the threat of censorship always looms over sites like BA and IFM, non-exploitive though they are, and that the apparent freedom is juxtaposed by the fact that, like England, Australia does not have a Freedom of Speech clause in their constitution. I sincerely hope that this is not a real threat to our favourite sites or the Australian "sexual revolution", but in theory it could be a problem, probably depending on the politics of the government of the day.

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luckfalk

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

cotton 0 i dont know exactly what your idea of an english accent is but of all the auzzies i've met none of them have had an english accent, and trust me we get enuogh of them over here
if u are getting your refferance points from confessions then maybe they were attaully britons not auzzies with english accents? if not maybe it is mearly an american ear not being able to distingusih the difference between the two and that to a native of either area the differances are instantly apparent

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JerryB76

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

All I know is whenever my ship visited any place in Austrailia it was very nice and the people were very, very friendly.

billyjuvenile

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

...like England, Australia does not have a Freedom of Speech clause in their constitution. I sincerely hope that this is not a real threat to our favourite sites or the Australian "sexual revolution", but in theory it could be a problem, probably depending on the politics of the government of the day.

Well, even we Americans (who do have a Freedom of Speech clause) are now seeing that a sufficiently willful executive can lay waste to any constitutional protections that he sees fit.  Solution?  Get out there and vote for BA-watching politicians!  (Don't mean to get too sidetracked on politics here, but when you live in a country that is slowly but surely being stolen away from you by Orwellian authoritarians, it's often hard to think of little else.  Thanks BA, for providing some much needed distraction!)

The_Elfman

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

CottonO puts it well. Australia is neat indeed (at least that's my impression of it; I have never been) and must be a great place to live in.

Except perhaps for later this year when The English are going to stuff them at cricket Vaudeville .  Yes, I'm back.  This time reconstituted into The definativeElfman.  Accept no substitutes.

I think that we must be careful here not to confuse the attitudes of a few, liberated, pioneering individuals in Melbourne with those of the entire nation.  I agree that Australia is probably more sexualy open than is the case in The US (but then again, and meaning no offence to our American members, where in the industrialised world isn't?).  There is a discussion currently taking place over at IFM on "Sexual Dynamics" where it is suggested (by members currently living in Australia) that it isn't such a sexualy liberated place.

(Now if you'll excuse me I have 18 submissions to catch up on).

Elfman.

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Vaudeville

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Re: Why are Australians so darn cool?

Coming soon, everywhere:

THE ELFMAN RETURNS

"W-what are you gonna do, Elfman? K-kill me?"

"Yeah. And that's The Elfman to you, shitface."

BLAM!

'The Elfman Returns', rated R for incessant nudity and occasional, pointy-eared violence.

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