Instead of debating check the 'data'
[url]http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/[/url]
Check out this link above. If puts the African countries surveyed,more conservative than the "West". Sadly, the French West Africa countries are not included in the survey. Perhaps these countries will be included. The scales are also described.
And in terms of Failed State
2008 Failed States index date. Figure in parentheses shows change in rank from 2007.
Pretty much evens between what the Brits and the French previously controlled.
1. Somalia (+2)
2. Sudan (-1)
3. Zimbabwe (+1)
4. Chad (+1)
5. Iraq (-3)
6. Democratic Republic of the Congo (+1)
7. Afghanistan (+1)
8. Côte d'Ivoire (-2)
9. Pakistan (+3)
10. Central African Republic (0)
11. Guinea (-2)
12. Bangladesh (+4)
12. Burma/Myanmar(+2)
14. Haiti (-3)
15. North Korea (-2)
16. Ethiopia (+2)
16. Uganda (-1)
18. Lebanon (+10)
18. Nigeria (-1)
20. Sri Lanka (+5)
You'd be amazed at what you can find
I bet if you dig hard enough you might even find some 'geek' whose done a survey on the questions you raise. Regardless, like you said, when you are there you can see for yourself.
Clits versus no clits is important, need that 'research'.
Having lived in an African country where there are no clits, I think it is important to at least provide some 'research' when it does influence the quality of the mongering scene. Mongering only to discover no clit is a real drag. Better to know in advance what your chances are..I guess you could just ask but if you have the data first, stay away from that country/region where clits don't exist.
on clitlessness and witlessness...
or: @GC and XXXPhree -
I thoroughly understand a desire not to sleep with women who have undergone circumcision and it would disappoint me greatly to discover it in a new morsel. Why? So much of the pleasure I glean from scoring a girl is learning the in's and out's of what turns her on, her orgasm and its vicissitudes, etc. It's a power trip to control her pleasure and makes all the difference in a sexual encounter. For me it would be like removing the best pinball machine in the arcade and then telling me to have a great time. It would just make me sad and say: But why did you have to remove THAT one?
As for XXX's complaint about the irrelevance of geography, sociology, anthropolgy, psychology and politics to the hobby, I could not disagree more strenuously. We don't fuck in a vacuum, at least I don't. The best food in the world is a lot less delectable when served on paper plates with plastic cutlery sans linen napkins and soft lighting, etc. All this shit that you decry, in my opinion, informs the colors and details of the very sexual experience itself when mongering in a strange land. You want stories of "mystery and conquest." Hell, man, what do you think makes it mysterious? Why not talk about it, dissect it, shake it around and poke it a little?
Keep the diatribes coming, gents.