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American culture, including Puritanism, being exported worldwide since the 1980s, first through Hollywood and then through tech. You will not find a less Purit
by sph 4y ago
American culture, including Puritanism, being exported worldwide since the 1980s, first through Hollywood and then through tech.
You will not find a less Puritanical view of the matter on a forum composed of mostly people from the US or deeply embedded within its culture, like many software engineers are.
For US and tech, sex talk and sexual freedom is a concept best avoided. You'll find more people arguing against gun control than arguing in favour of sex work or that age of consent is an arbitrary, cultural limit, not a hard one.
EPFL being an scientific organisation with international reach is influenced by this US cultural effect, and in general Switzerland is culturally more prude than its neighbours.
- ilceltico 4y agoEPFL PhD student here. Please note that the linked website is not EPFL's. The lecture was organised and then canceled by a student association called CLIC
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- revelio 4y agoRayiner is from Bangladesh originally, not the USA. You may be surprised to learn that the USA is by no means the culture with the strictest rules about sex and prostitution.
- selimthegrim 3y agoBangladesh and West Bengal are hardly prudish about prostitution.
- rayiner 4y agoAmericans are sexual deviants by the standards of Asia (where I’m from), the Middle East, and Africa.