Now that’s what I call a “Gap Fill Exercise” HAHAHAHAHA ! BOOM! BOOM! (Do I win
A sad fact is that a lot of Taiwanese people don’t know anything about birth control. Moreover, while getting an abortion is easy, not all clinics parforming it here are up to a reasonable standard, meaning that the girls often are getting their reproductive organs fucked up by some quack.
I think most foreigners here have known girls, who claimed that using the rythm method would keep unwanted babies away. Problems mainly start to surface if you believe them. (the going rate for an abortion is NT$5,000 or thereabouts).
AIDS is an issue too. Yes, the prevalence is low at present, but given the increase in casual sex coupled with the use of the rythm/withdrawal method, infections are bound to rise.
BB, I agree with you that the ‘peal necklace’ thing is lame. Actually, disgusting is the term I would have used. Wayne managed to come across as arrogant, cheap and disrespectful all at the same time.
Do we have to have this crap cluttering up the board?
I have no problem with sexual content on here. But ti would be nice if it was kept a little more tasteful.
Christ knows how ‘good taste’ is to be defined. But surely most of us agree that adolescent sports metaphors, a la Wayne, are nothing but purile pap.
:!: There is only one “punishment” for people like Wayne: ignore him completely.
. . . but then again, maybe we’re being a little hard on the guy. After all, he was responding to a request for just such a description. And if the description was puerile that could be because we’re a bunch of old wankers and he’s just a kid. What boy didn’t get so excited about his first time that he had to share it with others? What boy didn’t act arrogant, cheap and disrespectful? Now that we’re all mature adults Wayne may seem puerile, but it ain’t easy knowing how to be cool when you’re sitting with the grown-ups.
NT 5000?!! The bitch told me ten!!
Well…I can’t claim to be in “the Mile High Club”…but what about The Metre High Club"…as in on a train…I can claim membership (a few times over in fact) to this…I have spent alot of time on trains…talk about your roller coaster effect… 
As for PDA’s…once…while out hiking near Hsin Chu…we stumbled across a local couple making the beast with two backs in one of those wayside temples…apparently Buddhists are quite randy…ahhhhh…Tantra…
Sorry, I shouldn’t insult monkeys. Anyways, who cares what the people here think about showing affection to a loved one??? These folks are just one step out of the rice patty and have no idea how to behaive properly. Just look down on them (which you should always do as they don’t deserve any respect whatsoever) and give them a friendly but stern “fuk you”.
Though not part of this topic, did you know that Taiwan has an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) with a budget of US$500,000,000? A buddy of mine is trying to set up a meeting so we can take a rep around our neighborhood to show them the local shithole then down to the local branch of the “environmental” police to watch them play ping pong and chew bettle nut all day.
These little people do suck don’t they?
Easy now, 90630. Environmental degradation is a part of life here. Yelling at the local EPA reps won’t help. The local NGO’s might be able to do something.
I once ___ a___ on a beach. Does that count? (The centimeter high club - with sand under your ____skin)
So what’s the problem, prisoner 90630? Are you talking about thousands of fish floating belly-up in your local river, radioactive fuel rods in your garden or just plastic cups and styrofoam trays on the roadside?
Obviously, some issues would concern the EPA, others concern the city (or county’s) trash department. Are you sure you’re barking up the right tree?
How come this interesting thread is threatening to morph into something about environmental pollution? Or are we discussing discarded condoms and the like? Used to be a lot of those where I swam in the river as a kid – the Americans from the nearby U.S. air base drove there at night to get down to the nittygritty with their local pick-ups.
I’ve often wondered why, in my years of roaming about in less-frequented places here, I’ve almost never encountered any locals in flagrante delicto. Whenever I’ve initiated local lasses into the pleasures of al fresco coupling, on rocks, up trees, under waterfalls, or wherever, they’ve always seemed to take to it like ducks to water. So why don’t we see more local couples at it? Isn’t it the most natural and irresistible thing in the world?
Kissing what?
There was a report on TV sometimes ago that some teenager couldn’t hold it and did it at the MRT station–perhaps at the less crowded corner.
Also reported that teenagers did it in public library’s toilet.
The librarian denied seeing any flagrante in action:)
And last night a report said, a wife files a report to police demanding to be divorced as hubbies turn to drinking after losing his job, and demanding her of various sex acts au dehors…
It was when her hubbie force her to do it at the cemetery that she decided that was it:)
regards
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Up trees, Omni? Now that I’d like to see!
“prisoner 90630” has a nice ring to it.
Part of the reaction against public affection could just be tribalism. I get shit from time to time from local, paunchy, middle-aged men that I don’t get when I’m not with my young, pretty girlfriend. Leads me to believe that they’re pissed that I’ve snagged a good one from their tribe.
If one of these guys objected to me kissing her in public, I’d just kiss her again.
Maybe in some cases… but generally, there is an aversion to public (and maybe private too) displays of affection.
I remember watching television news years ago with my mother- and father-in-law after President Reagan was shot. The news report showed him in the hospital with his wife, Nancy, giving him a small kiss on his cheek. My mother-in-law embarassedly blurted out, “look at how those foreigners behave”. I don’t think my father-in-law has ever hugged my wife, and when my father hugged my wife for the first time at CKS airport, my wife was quite embarassed.
Just a cultural thang.
Unfortunately, yes, Tigerman is right. Poor things, they’re even more inhibited and starved of physical contact than we stone-cold Brits used to be. Ask a lass here how often she’s been hugged or kissed by either of her parents, how often she’s hugged or kissed them back, and how often she’s seen them hugging or kissing each other, and in most cases the answer will be never. They often say they’d love to develop such habits, but would feel too awkward about making the first move. No wonder they tend to get carried away when they start to taste the pleasures of physical intimacy with a passionate, huggy, touchy foreigner.
Sandman, about the tree, it’s rather enjoyable. Just sit her on a branch (not too high up), ideally with another branch or the trunk to support her back, catch hold of a branch above her head, and go at it apelike from there. Give it a try – it’s a lot of fun for both participants, and beats a dull old under-the-sheets job any day.
I believe I saw something resembling sex on one of my rare strolls around CKS Memorial Hall. Although it’s really quite hard to distinguish sex from an overly-amourous passionate embrace sometimes.
I was happy to see such intimacy in public though; I kinda miss seeing it. 
Oh, has anyone considered the often overlooked affection contained in the ‘two-people-on-scooter-forced-hug’? Perhaps riding a scooter with someone hugging you holds more emotional weight than the action’s somewhat necessary nature would suggest…
That’s how they do it!!! These damned Taiwanese! Trick us into thinking they’re all cold and heartless, with no stomach for PDAs, when half of then ride along receiving all manner of perverted favours from the rear. Ha! Gotcha! 
English reluctance is definitely a thing of the past:
Saw some quite amazing things at a Gay Pride Rally in south London–those two girls who could not get enough of each on the grass in full view that Saturday afternoon in summer a few years ago will live with me forever.
Met three American girls, who thought all the snogging in London nightclubs was offensive. They should have been at the rally.