Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[ExpatLover]

Covid situation is worsening day by day in Europe, it is irresponsible to keep FKK and brothels open. Today Japanese experts released a report saying that the virus can survive up to 9 hours on human skin and still being able to infect people.

I really don t know which kind of information the people need to get to start to understand that it is the time to keep social distancing, and therefor not to visit prostitutes.

[Pessimist]

This post really baffles me. I cannot speak about age, but there is a plethora of data to support the correlation between crime (specifically violent crime) and poverty. How is that observation so vehemently argued? Look at this ranking of crime index by country. Ukraine is the only European country in the top 50, and it is one of the poorest per capita in Europe. The US barely checks in right at 50.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.js

Furthermore, I think correlating GDP with real average income has been proven to be hugely misleading as high GDP does not correlate to the wealth of the citizenry. What often happens is that with high GDP, income inequality rears it's head, and income inequality is strongly correlated with crime, especially violent crime.

https://wp.nyu.edu/dispatch/2018/05/...f-crime-rates/

On the flip side, look at the most recent Global Peace Index report regarding safety. Iceland, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, and Japan top the list of safest countries. To boot, those countries also have much lower rates of income inequality.

http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uplo...019-web003.pdf

As for the example of Japan, your assertion of crime in relation to per capita GDP is undoubtedly wrong. The story of Japan's economic decline is an outdated perception. Japan's economy really only declined from the 1991 crash to the early 2000's, referred to as Japan's "Lost Decade. " During that time, crime did increase in Japan. Since then, as their economy rebuilds, their crime rates has also declined. The health of their economy showed a heavy correlation between their peak crime rates in 2002 and a sharp decline since then as their economy also strengthened. After all, they remain the 3rd largest economy in the world.

Japanese Per capita GDP:

Even in the Numbeo link you provided and I have no idea about the accuracy of their data, there are so many instances which break the income and crime index links.

South Africa, one of the richer countries in Africa with $6 K per capita GDP is 3rd most dangerous in the world. Bahamas has per capita of $32 K and is 18th most dangerous. Puerto Rico around the same per capita is 15th most dangerous. Brazil and Argentina with $9 K and 10 K per capita are in bottom 20 safest. Then on the safer side, Rwanda with $800 per capita is supposedly 11th safest in the world. Oman with $15 K is 5th safest but Kuwait with $32 K and in the same neighborhood is 41st safest.

I never said income is not a factor. I objected to a simplistic analysis of crime in a society using one variable I. E. National income amount and worse yet, claiming that one variable explains most of the crime. If Mcadonis had said there is some correlation between income and crime, I would not have a problem.

As for Japan having only a lost decade, fine you can keep you views but if see this link below, in current US $, Japan's per capita was $43 K in 1995 and is $40 K in 2019. Currency swings had a big impact, but by no means they have been booming in the last 2 decades.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...ame_desc=false

You brought up income inequality. That may have an even greater explanatory power than absolute level of income. But that was my point. In the comment from Mc Adonis, his sole variables were income and age and that is what I objected to. Income level is different from income inequality. And even more. Income and wealth inequality at a local level matter. The average firefighter in Mountain View has a sucky life if he was not lucky enough to own a house, as he can't afford the rent and has to commute from 20 miles south of Gilroy. His life would not be impacted by whether Japan's per capita GDP was higher or lower than that of USA.

And there would be a zillion other factors. Social net, government policies, racial and other differences in the country, and on and on. And that is the other thing I said. Crime in a society is extremely well researched. There is tons of literature which one can pull up with a single search word. I don't know that I need to rehash it, and certainly none of those researchers are using a single variable I. E. Income level of a country to explain it. To the extent crime is local, to use a variable such as absolute amount of national income as a huge explanatory variable (or median age of population) does not make any sense.

[Pistons]

The usual ones. Timiosora, Brasov, Cluj, Craiova etc.

The funnier thing is about the ones from Moldavia. When I ask, "so, you from Romania?" They act all haughty and offended and say "NO, Moldavia" LOL.

Seriously is Moldavia that much higher in bragging hierarchy than Romania? Or is it national pride talking? LOL.

People from historic Moldavia or Moldova does not like the partition of their historic country into 2 separate parts. Like the basques of Spain perhaps. Half is now a separate country, and half constitutes a third of what is now Romania.

The only thing the two parts of historic Moldova disagrees on is if they should be a country of their own, or a part of Romania since the language is in fact Romanian. A census done in the Romanian part shows they prefer to be a part of Romania (I bet because of EU). But a census in the country of Moldova shows they want their own independence (because no city likes to be ruled by another city in any country?

However, citizens of the country of Moldova can very easily get a Romanian passport if they want in a public office in Chisinau. Thus we get to see girls from both parts in FKK's.

I personally don't recall any girls from Craiova. Just the poster here on ISG.

But I may add Timisoara / Arad, Cluj Napoca, Brasov, Constanca, Iasi, Braila / Galati. I seem to have a high proportion of my top picks from Braila / Galati or Cluj (or on the north, maybe north east side of Cluj in smaller cities or towns there). Timisoara / Arad girls can seem more western, and some girls from there always lie about being Hungarian. But it seems to be less and less of them as Timisoara has a good economy. And some of the girls I have been with claim they have a mother from Iasi. I get a feeling there is this idea among Romanians that Iasi has the most beautiful girls. While others say Brasov perhaps due to Dracula or the culture there. But it seems Brasov has hot girls also. Like on I just was with last week. Exceptional girl.

[Pistons]

Seriously? Do you guys hibernate like bears, LOL. I have lived in NYC, Boston and Chicago at various parts of my life and was just as horny during the winter months.

However, we in the US tend to work just as long hours in winter as in summer. I remember feeling as sleep deprived in winter as in summer.

I do believe we are both humans and not bears. Immigrants I talk to from Africa say the same. Actually studies show what I am talking about is even worse for them given they need even more sun on their bodies than white people do. So fertility rates among black people in the far north should thus fall more than among whites as they get even less sexually active due to lack of vitamin the and sun on their bodies.

So not underestimate old powerful Ra.

[Mursenary]

This post really baffles me. I cannot speak about age, but there is a plethora of data to support the correlation between crime (specifically violent crime) and poverty. How is that observation so vehemently argued? Look at this ranking of crime index by country. Ukraine is the only European country in the top 50, and it is one of the poorest per capita in Europe. The US barely checks in right at 50.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.js

Furthermore, I think correlating GDP with real average income has been proven to be hugely misleading as high GDP does not correlate to the wealth of the citizenry. What often happens is that with high GDP, income inequality rears it's head, and income inequality is strongly correlated with crime, especially violent crime.

https://wp.nyu.edu/dispatch/2018/05/...f-crime-rates/

On the flip side, look at the most recent Global Peace Index report regarding safety. Iceland, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, and Japan top the list of safest countries. To boot, those countries also have much lower rates of income inequality.

http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uplo...019-web003.pdf

As for the example of Japan, your assertion of crime in relation to per capita GDP is undoubtedly wrong. The story of Japan's economic decline is an outdated perception. Japan's economy really only declined from the 1991 crash to the early 2000's, referred to as Japan's "Lost Decade. " During that time, crime did increase in Japan. Since then, as their economy rebuilds, their crime rates has also declined. The health of their economy showed a heavy correlation between their peak crime rates in 2002 and a sharp decline since then as their economy also strengthened. After all, they remain the 3rd largest economy in the world.

Japanese Per capita GDP:

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-per-capita

Japanese crime:

https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00068/

Lastly, perhaps the fact that Mexico and Brazil have never been warmongering countries is simply a reflection of the fact that they just never had the economic capability to wage expansion warfare?

I think it is silly and equally fallacious to point to age or income level as the differentiating axis to explain crime and I don't think it is any more valid than easy availability of sex.

I was not following this thread. But first of all, equating peace and lack of crime is just plain wrong. Pre WW2 Japan was extremely war mongering but I don't know that they had much crime in their society in those days. On the other hand, Brazil or Mexico haven't attacked anyone of late that I know of but I would not be too confident to be tourist in their countries.

So, peace in my mind is just a wrong choice of word here.

If it is crime you are talking of, there must be tons of real in-depth research on this topic. This being a sex forum, people come converging onto sex as an axis. I am not a huge fan of such simplistic views. But it is equally wrong to say "Japan is old, rich blah blah" to explain crime. I use GDP per capita as my metric / proxy of a country's income levels. That has sharply fallen for Japan. We went through these arguments before, a few months ago. I had presented tons of data. But I don't believe Japan's crime index has commensurately risen with fall in GDP per capita. US is much higher than almost all the larger countries on that metric but our cities do have high crime. And age is even worse axis to explain crime. Seriously! Instead of pointing to one or two anecdotal examples, if you really want to argue that the average age of a country bears a relation to the amount of crime in that country, you should index these numbers for multiple countries and see if there is any real relationship that is significant..

[Turgid]

You avoided his point about Muslim states. And, as always, the best points are the ones that are ignored.............

Muslim states are very religious countries. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria etc. You think these are peaceful countries? Well, go and live there.

[Pessimist]

Wikipedia highlights a study on ethnic differences of American college-aged women towards pre-marital sex. Amongst Euro-American and Asian-American women, religiosity and religious fundamentalism strongly predicted conservative sexual attitudes. With Hispanic-American women it did not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarital_sex.

Roman Catholicism appears to play a role in Latin America's anti-abortion stance. As a region, Latin America has teenage pregnancy rates that are second only to Sub-Suharan Africa. And although teenage pregnancy is dropping across all ethnicities in the USA, the Hispanic-American population continues to have the highest teen birth rate: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tes-fall-again.

Also Brazilians appear to lose their virginity earlier than Germans and Dutch. So while their faith preaches sexual abstinence, I do not find that it represses their sexual urges: https://www.her.ie/life/heres-the-av...e-world-316576.

I would rephrase your statement as follows: "Japan, Sweden, and Singapore are rich, developed countries with older populations hence their peaceful outlook".

I think it is silly and equally fallacious to point to age or income level as the differentiating axis to explain crime and I don't think it is any more valid than easy availability of sex.

I was not following this thread. But first of all, equating peace and lack of crime is just plain wrong. Pre WW2 Japan was extremely war mongering but I don't know that they had much crime in their society in those days. On the other hand, Brazil or Mexico haven't attacked anyone of late that I know of but I would not be too confident to be tourist in their countries.

So, peace in my mind is just a wrong choice of word here.

If it is crime you are talking of, there must be tons of real in-depth research on this topic. This being a sex forum, people come converging onto sex as an axis. I am not a huge fan of such simplistic views. But it is equally wrong to say "Japan is old, rich blah blah" to explain crime. I use GDP per capita as my metric / proxy of a country's income levels. That has sharply fallen for Japan. We went through these arguments before, a few months ago. I had presented tons of data. But I don't believe Japan's crime index has commensurately risen with fall in GDP per capita. US is much higher than almost all the larger countries on that metric but our cities do have high crime. And age is even worse axis to explain crime. Seriously! Instead of pointing to one or two anecdotal examples, if you really want to argue that the average age of a country bears a relation to the amount of crime in that country, you should index these numbers for multiple countries and see if there is any real relationship that is significant.

Perhaps this is your area of expertise and you know more. It most definitely is not my area of expertise. But it strikes me that crime in a society is an extremely complex subject and to condense it to one or two simplistic factors is naive, and I am very suspicious of arguments that include one or two links, a couple of anecdotal examples and claim "voila, argument provided, relationship established".

[Pessimist]

We all love Romanian girls and many of them tell us they are Bucharest or Constanza (but we know not all of them will be from these two places!

So I'd like us to list all the places girls have told you they come from in Romania.

The usual ones. Timiosora, Brasov, Cluj, Craiova etc.

The funnier thing is about the ones from Moldavia. When I ask, "so, you from Romania?" They act all haughty and offended and say "NO, Moldavia" LOL.

Seriously is Moldavia that much higher in bragging hierarchy than Romania? Or is it national pride talking? LOL.

[McAdonis]

Sexual repression in a country is where sex is frowned upon and regarded as a sin which means that Japan, Sweden and Singapore are not sexually repressed countries hence their peaceful outlook. Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, etc. are highly religious societies with pervasive teachings about sexual abstinence. Do not confuse the existence of prostitution in a country with open sex attitudes. Prostitution is hugely frowned upon in Roman Catholic societies which Latin American countries are.

Wikipedia highlights a study on ethnic differences of American college-aged women towards pre-marital sex. Amongst Euro-American and Asian-American women, religiosity and religious fundamentalism strongly predicted conservative sexual attitudes. With Hispanic-American women it did not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarital_sex.

Roman Catholicism appears to play a role in Latin America's anti-abortion stance. As a region, Latin America has teenage pregnancy rates that are second only to Sub-Suharan Africa. And although teenage pregnancy is dropping across all ethnicities in the USA, the Hispanic-American population continues to have the highest teen birth rate: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tes-fall-again.

Also Brazilians appear to lose their virginity earlier than Germans and Dutch. So while their faith preaches sexual abstinence, I do not find that it represses their sexual urges: https://www.her.ie/life/heres-the-av...e-world-316576.

I would rephrase your statement as follows: "Japan, Sweden, and Singapore are rich, developed countries with older populations hence their peaceful outlook".

[Pessimist]

Some do. Some don't. But in general, a colder climate makes people more introvert in the Nordics. And I do believe a colder climate may be the reason for less sex than say in Spain or Brazil. A colder climate has all sorts of problems with it. Ranging from higher levels of depression and lack of vitamin the, to people getting sleepier during the winter. Leading to less sex. Once the spring and the sun arrives again, people get instantly horny.

But there are many factors in this, and I do think the entire schooling system in Europe and America is based on religion. And population control. Thus leading to less sex. But that is just part of the picture.

Seriously? Do you guys hibernate like bears, LOL. I have lived in NYC, Boston and Chicago at various parts of my life and was just as horny during the winter months.

However, we in the US tend to work just as long hours in winter as in summer. I remember feeling as sleep deprived in winter as in summer.

[HammerTime96]

Japanese youth don't even have sex anymore and for God's sake, their porn is even pixelated!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...041.html%3Famp

What do you think it the whole point of those silly face diapers and "social distancing?" To stop people from reproducing.

What long term psychological effect do you think this has on the current teenagers? It's all part of the George Soros "Open Societies" plan to socially engineer the world. This website is probably on his pay roll, hahaha!

[Sirioja]

Some do. Some don't. But in general, a colder climate makes people more introvert in the Nordics. And I do believe a colder climate may be the reason for less sex than say in Spain or Brazil. A colder climate has all sorts of problems with it. Ranging from higher levels of depression and lack of vitamin the, to people getting sleepier during the winter. Leading to less sex. Once the spring and the sun arrives again, people get instantly horny.

But there are many factors in this, and I do think the entire schooling system in Europe and America is based on religion. And population control. Thus leading to less sex. But that is just part of the picture.

They should rub to warm up.

[Pistons]

I admittingly incorrectly applied the term sexually repressed in regards to Sweden as Nordic countries are pretty sexually liberal in practice, their cultures just don't exude sexuality. But even though they are liberal minded to it, do they actually have much sex?

Some do. Some don't. But in general, a colder climate makes people more introvert in the Nordics. And I do believe a colder climate may be the reason for less sex than say in Spain or Brazil. A colder climate has all sorts of problems with it. Ranging from higher levels of depression and lack of vitamin the, to people getting sleepier during the winter. Leading to less sex. Once the spring and the sun arrives again, people get instantly horny.

But there are many factors in this, and I do think the entire schooling system in Europe and America is based on religion. And population control. Thus leading to less sex. But that is just part of the picture.

[Mursenary]

Sexual repression in a country is where sex is frowned upon and regarded as a sin which means that Japan, Sweden and Singapore are not sexually repressed countries hence their peaceful outlook. Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, etc. are highly religious societies with pervasive teachings about sexual abstinence. Do not confuse the existence of prostitution in a country with open sex attitudes. Prostitution is hugely frowned upon in Roman Catholic societies which Latin American countries are.

LOL at Roman Catholic trope. Have you ever been to a Latin American Carnival? A Latin American night club? Or ever met an Italian man? "Pervasive teachings about sexual abstinence", yeah okay.

I admittingly incorrectly applied the term sexually repressed in regards to Sweden as Nordic countries are pretty sexually liberal in practice, their cultures just don't exude sexuality. But even though they are liberal minded to it, do they actually have much sex?

But Singapore? Japan?

Lack of Sex in Singapore.

http://factsanddetails.com/southeast...ntry-3745.html

In 2005, condom-maker Durex ranked Singapore for three straight years near the bottom of its list of sexually active nations. among 34 nations in the frequency Peter Edidin wrote in the New York Times, Singaporeans do not appear especially, or even adequately, eager to have sex. In an annual global sex survey conducted by Durex, a condom manufacturer, Singapore ranked last, for the second year in a row, among 34 nations in the frequency with which men and women reported having sex. (Hungary is No. 1.) According to another study, of 1000 Singaporeans younger than 40, conducted by professor Victor Goh of the National University of Singapore, only 25 percent of men and 10 percent of women wanted sex more than six times a month.

Japanese youth don't even have sex anymore and for God's sake, their porn is even pixelated!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...041.html%3Famp

Nearly a third of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to research.

The country is facing a steep population decline as a growing number of youngsters abstain from sex and avoid romantic relationships.

[Sebastiane]

We all love Romanian girls and many of them tell us they are Bucharest or Constanza (but we know not all of them will be from these two places!

So I'd like us to list all the places girls have told you they come from in Romania.