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Quote by: Mia Is your country also more lenient when it comes to defining sex crimes and prosecuting them? |
To answer this question seriously would take a great deal of research which I'm unfortunately too lazy to carry out. So I'll eyeball it.
I think Switzerland is fairly typical of Western Europe in general. Yes, society here is "more relaxed" about sex, meaning less absolutely-racked-by-it than the US. But everything is relative -- the whole
world is hung up about sex.*
We have more "sex" (suggestiveness, nudity, whatever) on TV. Do we have more sex crime? I hardly think so. And do we define it differently? That would amaze me. Though it's possible that sex offenders here stand a better chance of getting some sort of therapy, instead of being burned at the stake or whatever happens to them in the US (those that can't afford a slick enough lawyer to away with it, I mean).
The US sure is a weird mix of Protestant prudishness and absolute sexual obsession/depravity. And this whole business of six-year-old boys being expelled from school for embracing a teacher -- I mean
really.
(*I have a great photo of a rude drawing on a wall I took in Hanoi 20 years ago, when the place was still a closed, ultra-uptight society.)