cultural differences

Anybody want to chime in on whether Britain's culture is more sexualised than America's?

I always get that feeling when over there. Sex seems to be such a topic even in adverts and posters. It seems so much more "in your face" than over here and linked to sex itself, rather than what sort of person you are, like it seems to be over here.  I mean...sex as opposed to being sexy.
 And what they see as BEING sexy. In an advert I think you are more likely to see a sexy woman defined by a long velvet black dress and dripping with diamonds. But over there is seems to be more like a mirco mini, spandex shirt with a really, really low neckline around really BIG ti**.  Maybe is is a quality thing not a quanity thing. 

I know they have different attitudes over there, more childlike and really into tittilation.  Almost like school boys. I think that is different than here too.

And before I get blasted...I'm not implying any problem in the PEOPLE over there,  Sex is the same around the world if you speak about individuals. But culture on the outside seems to be so sexualized.

Maybe I am just from a conservative part of the country and don't see sex as much as say someone in NYC.
I'm not sure I am explaining myself very well....

I've had this discussion so much w/ Steve. Seriously. What you are saying has merit (imho) from living on the east coast in the US and going to Manchester/Leeds. I like some of it (sexually liberating for women) and don't like some of it (magazines and newspapers are dripping with it). I can say that the titilation is def. more important. I happen to be a little fuller up top and he tells me all his friends comment on it to him. Doesn't really bother me, but maybe men in america are a little more reserved and keep the comments amongst the guys. Then again, I ask b/c I'm intrigued.

I don't care for some of the exposure b/c I think of how it might be harder for younger girls, but it is nice to not feel out of place if you want to go out on a Sat night wearing something a little skimpy.

I have a son too, so maybe that colours my reaction a bit.
Two examples come to mind.
1. There is a poster that I saw in the underground arourd Christmas. It shows a woman from the waist to the middle of her thighs. Sh ehas on a red leatherl skirt that is being pulled up INTO her, well front cracks.  It is a beautiful photograph and I am not a prude, But I did make an effort to catch my son's attention elsewhere as we went by it.

Another is a Renault commercial on TV.
The ad says NOTHING about the meritas of the car, but only shows various AS*es being shaken around to the song, 'Shakin' that as*.
It is sorta cute, but I again divert my son's attention when I see it.

ANd of course there is the commercial for a car.. some Japanese make I think, where there are several couples in a living room choosing partners for wife swapping by car key lottery.  (I had to get my Beloved to explain it to me!)

It just seems that sex is a harder, less intimate thing there in the media. It's more about getting your rocks off than connecting.

BTW I would be livid about your figure! Tell his mates to keep their comments to themselves.  But of course, I don't have so much to comment on...

Yeah I've found it's alot more sexualised here. In fact it used to kind of make me jealous because I admit I wasn't really used to it. Girls dress much sexier and skimpier here than in the States, especially for a night out. And there's topless women on page 3 of the newspapers, and skantily clad women scattered throughout. It really is more of a guy's world here, because you certainly don't see the equivalent of topless, underwear-clad guys! Personally I think it's not all that liberating because it puts alot more pressure on girls here to look sexy and let it all hang out and be like the models guys can ogle everywhere. It's also much more acceptable here to have one-night stands and casual flings. I guess you get used to it though.

My boyfriend and I have discussed this exact same issue . . . I really think it's all what you were exposed to growing up . . . it seems to us that in America violence is portrayed to the extent sex is portrayed in England . . . I might be taken aback by full frontal nudity on his primetime shows/magazines the same way he's taken aback by graphic murder images on our primetime shows/magazines . . .

But if I had to choose between the two I'd take the sex any day!

That's a VERY good point about the violence. I hadn't made that comparison, but now that I think about it, you are so right.
And that' smakes me feel better. I too would much rather have a culture had too much sex, that too much violence.
  :)ThankYou!!