Word: prudishness
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...Francois Mitterrand's decades-long affair outside his marriage was reported by journalists only after his child from the relationship appeared at his funeral. And during Bill Clinton's sex scandal and impeachment in 1996, the French told American reporters that the event simply proved to them the overly prudish nature of the United States. "The French derided America about how crazy we were," says Diane Johnson, the American best-selling author of Le Divorce and Le Mariage, who lives most of the year in Paris...
...study by UCLA psychology professor Paul Okami, it was shown that children who see their parents naked are in no way worse off than their prudish counterparts. In my experience, a naked family normalizes nudity in a wonderfully productive way. Being naked never feels wrong, embarrassing or innately and cheaply sexual to me; it is an empowering and liberating state of being. This is the legacy I owe to my family...
There was a time when the Europeans scoffed at cigarette bans as the prerogative of prudish American hypocrites. But under the homogenizing pressures of the European Union, nearly every Western European country has adopted similar, if not more stringent, policies. The British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once...
...country that gave the world the Kama Sutra be so prudish? It's a longstanding cliché to note that India has produced both the world's most famous guide to love and erotic pleasure and some of the most conservative social rules this side of Saudi Arabia on such questions as kissing in public. That paradox was on display once again this week in the firestorm that swept India following a seemingly innocuous - and obviously staged - celebrity kiss on the cheek at an AIDS-awareness event...
...Petite Maison,” the original inspiration for Burgin’s project, the Marquis de Trémicour performs a feat of architectural seduction by transforming a prudish Mélite into his lover simply by touring her through his well-decorated mansion...