Questions For Our Russian Friends

[palo5]

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Teaching about things that exist is not the same as promoting them, imo.

That's right, but if you're teaching about reproduction in a biology or social class, you're seriously off-topic if you try to explain why some fail to find the right hole or even the right gender to do it with. They can find out later, if they're interested, but reproduction class is not the place to learn it

[ponky]

It's question of temperance. We have similar problem in ex Yugoslavia area. First, to be clear, majority of Slavs doesn't like such practices and see it as unnatural and repulsive, but part of person, feeling compassion before any hate. Actually, USSR was first country which decriminalised such practices (around 1920), followed by many of other socialistic countries.

So accent is on "personal - not public". I don't walk around yelling "I love blondes!" or force others to love them. Girl, tea, lamppost... whatever others like - I don't care, if they are happy so I am. But don't tell me what to think about it or what to enjoy myself.

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Teaching about things that exist is not the same as promoting them, imo.

There are organizations which through the media promote homosexualism as something modern, cool and progressive while on the other side they showing normal relations as boring, imprisoned by traditionalism. For example, there's some TV stations which wasn't have any series without homos for years, similar movies were on air maybe 4-5 times in week... I don't know, but 5 movies about anything on same station per week looks like too much. Or, like scandal in high schools when teachers of "Citizen's education" have promote homosexualism as something which everybody should try.

Originally Posted by AmateurEmale

I have to admit that I saw Playboy at 12, Penthouse at 15, V.S. and F.o.H. around 16, and porno movies around 19-20 when I had a Post Office Box to buy them legally. So I am hoping that Russia will join Western Europe and the Anglosphere in being less prudish about the sexual interests of teenagers and young adults.

Here's to the day when teenage males in Russia can see Met-Art models in Russian lads' mags.

You can't see many porn sites in Czech Republic, with materials legally filmed in Czech Republic. Or, in some period in USA you could be porn model with 18, but you couldn't buy your movie until you're 21. So, far from just roses in west sphere. Is this still on force in some states?

And, when we talk about it, in ex Yugoslavian area erotic content is usually not limited, for buying pornography you have to be 18 legally, but in practice there's no penalty for this. If you're 15 and try to buy some dirty mag at newsstand salesman can refuse, but usually will sell you or first kidding you and on the end sell it. I suppose that guys now go online, but where I was young we were buying something like CCC in 15, it was tolerated.

[Estreeter]

Yeah, I got a serious question for my Russian Comrade

When am I able to emigrate there and if so, where do you suggest I reside

[ponky]

With enough vodka it does not matter where you reside.

Maybe that is real problem with capitalism?

[cicciobuki]

2 more questions for the Russian(s):

What are your favorite places in Russia? (and why?)

And are there places that are especially popular among Russian?

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Yeah, I got a serious question for my Russian Comrade

When am I able to emigrate there and if so, where do you suggest I reside

Get a visa and you can come anytime. Crimea would be a nice place for you -- pleasant climate, good coastline, good food & drink, nice people

[scoundrel]

Russia being such a vast territory and extending from the Varangerfjord in Norway, the remote taiga forests of Finland, Kaliningrad, Belarus and Ukraine on one side all the way to the edge of Alaska on the opposite side; how do Russian people identify themselves geographically? Do you consider yourselves to be within Europe or on the outside, looking in, or for that matter on the outside not giving a monkey's?

Being British, I feel a strange sense of being European and yet not just exactly European, of seeing Europe from the outside, looking in. Do Russians have this feeling?

[palo5]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

Being British, I feel a strange sense of being European and yet not just exactly European, of seeing Europe from the outside, looking in. Do Russians have this feeling?

For me the question doesn't arise. I'm from Asia, but don't think of myself as Asian or European, just Russian. I can't speak for everyone, but think many would agree

Maybe it's the same in England, and you don't feel European, just English?

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by palo5

For me the question doesn't arise. I'm from Asia, but don't think of myself as Asian or European, just Russian. I can't speak for everyone, but think many would agree

Maybe it's the same in England, and you don't feel European, just English?

I always feel British, Palo. But whenever I can scrape some pennies together and go to Europe, I do feel some connection there as well, even though I only speak one other language, French, and not all that well.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by palo5

Get a visa and you can come anytime. Crimea would be a nice place for you -- pleasant climate, good coastline, good food & drink, nice people

Good I'm moving permanently into Casa Del palo5





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