Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Mursenary]

One could write books about female sexuality, its ambiguity and complexity. Unless a man is willing to risk his emotional well-being and psychological health, better leave such discussion to professional therapists. Man's sexuality, on the other hand, is defined by one simple question: do I have an erection?

Or we can have casual but fruitful discussions on an public internet forum.

[McAdonis]

ShoeBree rubbish aside, what's impressive here is the quick rise and fall of their daily deaths. Their death curve showed a steep rising slope but an equally steep downward slope. Every other European nation that's on the decline is experiencing a much more shallow down curve, if there is even a down curve at all.

I wonder if it is more a reflection of culture or government policy response? Or perhaps a testament to Swedish health and healthcare? (Enquiring about the latter two particularly because their case rate has not gone down in the same manner).

Sweden reports data differently so final tallies are not in yet according to this:

In the data that we present on Our World in Data, which comes directly from the European CDC, deaths in Sweden are shown by date of death, while deaths in other countries are shown by date of report.

This matters because it takes a number of days until all deaths for a particular day are reported. In practice this means that Sweden might today only report 10 deaths for yesterday, but once reporting is complete the death count for that day might increase to 40.

The death counts for the last 10 days in Sweden should therefore always be interpreted as an incomplete count of the deaths that occurred in this period.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-sweden-death-reporting..

Clarification for previous post: I pulled daily death data from the graph that appears when you type "Sweden coronavirus deaths", which reports Johns Hopkins University data. On December 2nd Sweden set a daily record with 174 deaths. Previous daily death record occurred on April 7th and April 14th with 115 deaths.

[Smoke Light]

I can definitely say that varies between regions and cultural sub groups. White American women from the Deep South and varieties of brown skinned immigrants still often demand a degree of relationship commitment. For promiscuity, I've always had a much easier time with women from the Northeast and even Midwest. My disdain for attitudes of west coast women have prevented me from speaking with much knowledge about their promiscuity in the bedroom.

One could write books about female sexuality, its ambiguity and complexity. Unless a man is willing to risk his emotional well-being and psychological health, better leave such discussion to professional therapists. Man's sexuality, on the other hand, is defined by one simple question: do I have an erection?

[Mursenary]

Mostly the latter.

I can definitely say that varies between regions and cultural sub groups. White American women from the Deep South and varieties of brown skinned immigrants still often demand a degree of relationship commitment. For promiscuity, I've always had a much easier time with women from the Northeast and even Midwest. My disdain for attitudes of west coast women have prevented me from speaking with much knowledge about their promiscuity in the bedroom.

[Mursenary]

You fail to address the fundamental questions. Swedish had no rules to limit their social contact. So if Swedish had been crowding each other and breathing on one another sans mask inside enclosed, indoor spaces, shouldn't Sweden have reached natural herd immunity the first few months of pandemic? Sweden's cumulative cases on October 11th was at 100075 and by December 10th it reached 320098. We are over 300 days into the pandemic. Yet more than two-thirds of Sweden's cases came within the last 60 days? Also Sweden hit it's daily death record on December 2nd.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/sweden

ShoeBree rubbish aside, what's impressive here is the quick rise and fall of their daily deaths. Their death curve showed a steep rising slope but an equally steep downward slope. Every other European nation that's on the decline is experiencing a much more shallow down curve, if there is even a down curve at all.

I wonder if it is more a reflection of culture or government policy response? Or perhaps a testament to Swedish health and healthcare? (Enquiring about the latter two particularly because their case rate has not gone down in the same manner).

[ExpatLover]

Prediction right now are rather worthless. When rates have gone down for a couple of weeks in a row, due to vaccinations or other, it can be interesting to start speculating. But sadly everything looks dark at the moment.

Vaccination like wearing a mask, social distancing is a tool, at the end of the end what matters for the politicians to take decisions is the number of deaths and the how the healthcare are loaded, even the vaccine is very efficient if mid of 2021 the number of deaths is skyrocketing the life will not return to normal, some specialist are saying now that even 2021 Christmas will not be a normal one.

[Ararat]

Do you mean to say that Swedish girls are less sexually open now than before or that Southern Europeans and Americans are more so these days?

Mostly the latter.

[McAdonis]

LMFAO, you're most def overthinking it. I wonder what planet, I mean country, you're from. You're our expert, the YouTube professor.

You fail to address the fundamental questions. Swedish had no rules to limit their social contact. So if Swedish had been crowding each other and breathing on one another sans mask inside enclosed, indoor spaces, shouldn't Sweden have reached natural herd immunity the first few months of pandemic? Sweden's cumulative cases on October 11th was at 100075 and by December 10th it reached 320098. We are over 300 days into the pandemic. Yet more than two-thirds of Sweden's cases came within the last 60 days? Also Sweden hit it's daily death record on December 2nd.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/sweden

[Sebastiane]

I am sad that Palace is still closed. -- its been over 6 months. I'm glad I was able to go last spring before the shutdown due to Covid19. I hope it doesn't shut down completely. That would be a terrible loss!

Any idea if FKK clubs in Hessen will likely reopen by end of Jan 2021?

[The Cane]

I remember Seka well; she came on the scene when I was just getting seriously into porn in the late 70's. I actually always thought she was American. However, I'm talking about the 60's. The porn I saw back then was genuine Scandinavian porn, especially Swedish. I never saw any US porn until much later sometime in the 70s. Would love to have gone to Sweden back then. My first trip to Europe was in 1973 with family. We did not go to Scandinavia but had a blast watching lots of porn in Amsterdam's red light district with my brother. We did not have the money to sample hookers.

Swedes have the rep (or had it), but I think the Danes may have been even more liberal with respect to sex and porn. I know there was a time when you could buy hardcore porn on the street, like you were buying a newspaper out of a coin machine haha! Don't know if that's still true.

[Turgid]

The Swedish Erotica line of loops probably had a lot to do with it. Although, I don't know that the production of these movies had anything to do with Sweden at all. In fact their hugest star, who went by the stage name of "Seka", was / is an American woman originally from Virginia LOL!

https://www.hotmovies.com/series/286...-Erotica-8mm-/

I remember Seka well; she came on the scene when I was just getting seriously into porn in the late 70's. I actually always thought she was American. However, I'm talking about the 60's. The porn I saw back then was genuine Scandinavian porn, especially Swedish. I never saw any US porn until much later sometime in the 70´s. Would love to have gone to Sweden back then. My first trip to Europe was in 1973 with family. We did not go to Scandinavia but had a blast watching lots of porn in Amsterdam's red light district with my brother. We did not have the money to sample hookers.

[Mursenary]

And you know I am wrong how? I know at least in one case (my friend) hospital didn't disclose that he was heavy user of drugs.

Do you assume everyone is a drug abuser until proven otherwise? Or just hospitalized patients?

Doesn't matter anyway as if they are drug users, what matters is how damaged their livers are as a result of the drug abuse. And as stated, we know their liver functions after initial labs in the ED. Your scenario is both overly judgmental and irrelevant.

[ShooBree]

For above 2019 study, almost two-thirds of young Swedish women have not had casual sex in the last twelve months. Nevertheless, the fact that someone has an occasional ONS ("being easy") does not necessarily mean that said person is not living a somewhat or mostly solitary life. ONS is by definition a way to NOT let people get emotionally close you, which aligns with the Scandinavian stereotype. You see them once, and then keep them at a distance. Also having an occasional ONS does not necessarily mean that Scandinavians are comfortable with random strangers breaching their infamous one meter physical distance bubble. Let's say a girl has had four ONS within the last twelve months. That is four strangers that she either found super attractive (or she was inebriated and in the mood). Every other Tinder date, she could have kept at a comfortable one meter distance. Conversely, Spanish and Italian are easier to befriend and they do "la bise" (cheek-to-cheek kiss) with people they barely know, but they are definitely not generally known for as many ONS as the more sexually liberated Scandinavians.

LMFAO, you're most def overthinking it. I wonder what planet, I mean country, you're from.

BTW, Swedes, Danes and Norwegians are not the same. Lumping them together as a homogeneous group is a sign of ignorance. Finland isn't even a part of Scandinavia. Please, address the polar bear problem in Scandinavia! You're our expert, the YouTube professor.

[Mursenary]

A Swedish guy makes a response which is informative: "If you meet someone like super drunk and you have hilarious fun for five hours, if you meet them the next day, you won't say Hello".

Side note, this reminds me of a conversation the other day where someone said that when Japanese coworkers go out and get drinks, while drunk, it is common to bond or even say insulting things to each other like telling off your boss. The next day at work, it's as if nothing happened.

Wonder how much truth there is to this phenomenon.

[Mursenary]

Partly because people exaggerated, partly because other countries followed. Sweden was very progressive in many areas in the first decades after the war. It's not as if Sweden was lightyears 'ahead' but I think there were sections of society in Southern Europe and the Americas that was a little bit more conservative. IMO, that's long gone.

Do you mean to say that Swedish girls are less sexually open now than before or that Southern Europeans and Americans are more so these days?