So, today I was feeling bored, so I'm gonna rant about sex. It's so damned taboo in this country, and in most Christian countries (yes, the US is a christian country, just look at our last president). But it's more than just sex being taboo. Bodies are taboo, too. Pardon my saying, but what's so secretive about breasts that movies even INVOLVING them require one to be 17 years old to see? I mean, they're just another body part, like an arm or a pancreas. Sure they're considered a sexual organ, but humans and pigs are the only animals that use them as such (Bonk, Mary Roach).
I suppose my rant is sort of about the state of American religion, as well. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, the big three that dominate America, all prohibit sexual desires. They say "NO" to masturbation, "NO" to being gay, and "NO" to divorce (read your damn bible), which, I believe, is why sex is so taboo here. Not to mention that current medical and psychological evidence shows that these three things are natural or even good for you.
So, I don't like that the US is so dominated by religion that sex is taboo.
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Interesting, Greg, but where is your link to "current medical and psychological evidence"? If you want this to be taken seriously, then please provide evidence.
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A friend of mine and her mother, both great bellydancers, actually have some difficulty promoting their dance group's bellydance shows because sometimes completely random people passing by their promotional posters will simply tear them down because they think it's inappropriate. I think it's ridiculous that rather than people accepting another culture's ideas and appreciating the beauty of the human body in an art form, they'll inconvenience others who might want the opportunity to choose to watch a bellydance performance.
There are a lot of more serious examples of this, as you listed above, but I think it's strange that people's own puritanical views can cause them to interfere with even tiny things like an obscure belly dance group's performance publicity.