[Atlantic Bridge]

Sexual behaviour and values are indeed a interesting cultural difference between America and Europe. Conservative Europeans like me (I am married and father of 3 kids) are usually amazed about the amount of emotions that conservative Americans invest into the issue. I.e. I do not like homesexuals either but I do not care about their way of living as long as they do not affect my own sphere. Although I also do not want my kids to have sex with 14, the efforts in America in challenging teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence (purity pledge, Chastity rings, the so called "second chance pledge" etc.) until marriage are rather funny to me. I would have never ever signed such a notice of intention as a teen, since my classmates probably would have seen me as the most strange and crazy lunatic you can think of. Furthermore I do not want my kids to sign such stuff since I do not understand why the public is interested into such really private decisions. Not the sex between young people is a scandal for me but the voyeuristic lust in public confessions that some people obviously must have. I (and many other Europeans) have the impression that the social pressue that is carried out in this field by some groups is just another form of sick perversion.

Do not get me wrong. I don't want to provoke anybody here, but I feel the widening gap between European and American values and behaviour. Anyway this issue could make a interesting discussion.

[scripter]

I do not care about [the homosexual] way of living as long as they do not affect my own sphere.

Part of the problem as many see it, is that the homosexual way of living is taught as perfectly acceptable in our schools. You don't care about their way of living and neither do many of us, and we don't want it taught in our schools. Read this: Targeting Children, Part 2: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change

That's part 2 of 4 parts. For the other 3 parts checkout my profile (about half way down). This behavior is encouraged in our schools. There was a questionnaire for students with one question asking: "how do you know you wouldn't like homosexual sex if you've never tried it?"

Unfortunately, the radicals pushing the homosexual agenda are obsessed with our children and like you, we don't care for their way of living nor do we want our children exposed to it.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Although I also do not want my kids to have sex with 14, the efforts in America in challenging teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence (purity pledge, Chastity rings, the so called "second chance pledge" etc.) until marriage are rather funny to me.

If that is typical of American behavior, how come our birthrate is higher than Germany or Iceland?

Clearly we are doing something right.

[OESY]

Thank goodness we live in a culture in America, as known to
the rest of the world through Hollywood, where we would
never ever think of following the dictum that "sex sells."

[Little Ray]

Maybe the fact that Europeans treat sex as entertainment is a reason for an aging population, low birth rates, etc.