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Why are there such huge differences in attitudes towards sex between the USA and Argentina?

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Question - (24 March 2011) 4 Answers - (Newest, 27 March 2011)
A male Argentina age 30-35, *ebaslookingforward writes:

Well, I am from Argentina, South America. Our culture has its roots in Spain and Italy pretty much. We salute with a kiss on the cheek (properly, not a silly "air kiss"), we are very affectionate towards others and very emotional. Our parties get pretty wild, we stay up very late and we drink a lot (the legal age is 18 but most small places will sell alcohol to underage teenagers). So you might be thinking things can get very wild and sexual right? In reality they do, but there is something I wonder.

Since I was 13 (I am 18) I have been talking to many people online in a couple of websites (American websites, so most people I talked to was American). Basically I talked to the girls but also looked at what guys said in the chatrooms. First of all I noticed most of the guys were very horny, sometimes unpolite and excessively straightforward to the girls (saying they were horny and asking to roleplay). I was horny sometimes, I must admit, but I always got into a proper conversation and only after that did things get a little more sexual. Anyway, I noticed that a good chunk of the girls were pretty open (more than they are here in Argentina) about sex, many were open about having fingered and all that stuff.

However, when you talk to someone online you feel safe. After all you are so open with strangers because you feel they won't laugh at you and mainly because they won't spoil and share all your secrets, right? I would soon be able to tell.

One year ago I visited Charlotte, NC, with 11 other students on an exchange trip. Basically, we stayed 3 weeks in Charlotte and, me and another school mate sleeping with a guy called Drew and the other people (guys and girls) staying at various different homes. We attended school every day and joined various classes but just as visitors (we did not study) so we got to interact a lot with the American teenagers.

Three days into the trip we attended a party. A girl (Sarah) hooked up with my schoolmate that stayed with me at Drew's house. They made out, nothing unusual except for the fact that the girl made the move and she was quite fast! My mate said to us later that "here they don't make out with tongue" (basically, he wasn't making out, just kissing. In Argentina, it's always kissing with tongue unless you're like 13 and shy).

In the same party, a group of guys wanted to talk to me for a second. I agreed, and they asked me "how can we make your girls to suck on our dicks". I laughed to my inside, since I knew that even though one of our girls was very "bitchy" and dressed up provocatively, I knew that having them do a blowjob was impossible. I said "sorry guys, but our girls are not so horny, it's impossible to get a blowjob from them, sorry." Drew was coming by and got into the conversation. He said: "he is right, you're not gonna be able to. Sorry guys, they are not like that. You have to work on them way too much." He knew what I was talking about since he had visited Argentina, Spain, and other European countries on many ocassions taking part of exchange programs.

Another situation in that party: Drew and I were talking to me and my mate and he said he had had sex with the host of the party (a very hot girl indeed), and that he also had sex with another girl in that house (pointing upstairs). To end with he said he's had hookups with a girl in every country that he's been to and in a car, like bragging about it.

Another day, it had snowed, there was no school and we went out to have fun and all (yay!). There were some of the Argentines and their hosts as well as Drew, my mate and I. We had fun and all, it was very entertaining and we took a lot of pictures. Hanging around in the snow later that day, Drew and another guy started to draw a huge penis on the snow with their feet. Then Sarah came by and drew semen coming out of the penis. We Argentines looked at ourselves and commented that they were always thinking about sex a bit too much.

A tall guy had liked the "bitchy" Argentine girl since he first saw her at the party but he did not make a move. They started talking during the next few days at school during breaks when they could. Eventually, around the 2nd week of the trip, she got into the bathroom. When she was coming out, this guy (Obi) grabbed her arm and took her back inside, smiled, looked down at his penis and stood there (he wanted a blowjob). I think he also said "your mouth on there". He did not use force at all, and they stood there talking. The bitchy girl was a bit nervous, she did not want to do it but tried to take it in a funny way. In the end, she gave him a peck so that he would let her out of the bathroom. When she told the story, she was nervous and felt a bit bad about it, and then again we commented how sexual things were there.

Parallel to this story, Sarah and my mate made out many other times (Sarah was always the one who made the move and my mate is not shy at all, he is quite handsome I must admit :P). Eventually, Sarah, the Argentine girl she hosted, Drew, my mate and I were at Drew's house. We were watching a movie. The two of them (Sarah and my mate) started making out. Suddenly, she grabbed his hand and dragged him (he was just surprised and did not say a word) to his bedroom. They shut the door. Minutes later I go downstairs for some orange juice and I hear some noise. I call my Argentine girl mate and Drew and they hear it too. The guys were moaning and having sex. My girl mate and I commented on how Sarah was being a bitch. Eventually Drew realized his mom was home and stopped them by knocking on the door.

A couple days later I found out that he had not used a condom but that Sarah was using a vaginal ring and my girl mate told us she took a pill as well.

I think that I have said enough, but my personal experience (I have been to the United States like 11 times in the past 10 years including my exchange trip with fellow students) that I wanted to share this bit on here to hear a few opinions from both males and females. I absolutely enjoyed my trips to the USA and I respect its culture and its people no matter how different we are.

Please don't tell me that TV/movies mislead teenagers. Our TV is WAY more junk than yours and more explicit, and I do see things are getting more sexual here too, just not as much as they are there, and in a different way.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (27 March 2011):

because americans do it more:) girls are easier you just have to chose out the right ones. Guys only want sex and hey if you can always get it wouldn't you want it to?

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A male reader, sebaslookingforward Argentina +, writes (24 March 2011):

sebaslookingforward is verified as being by the original poster of the question

By the way, I know not everyone was like that. When I was in Charlotte there were some girls who had not even kissed or so we were told, who were more quiet and a bit shy but still very nice people :)

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A male reader, sebaslookingforward Argentina +, writes (24 March 2011):

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You are probably right. I have had good education in Argentina, but the school that I visited in NC was pretty luxurious (with several modern computers, projectors in every classroom, and very successful sports teams and a very good deal of people good in all sorts of arts) and everyone had a very very nice large well furnished house. Of course, most students our age had a good car (some people even had huge 7-seat SUVs just for themselves to drive to school, Sarah had a modern Volvo). I am sure not all schools are like that, so we were definitely not around poor people.

However, in Argentina those students from lower classes and poor education are more sexual of course. Recently, a few months ago, I read that some girls of lower and middle classes are starting to charge guys to perform oral sex in exchange of having their homework done, for money, or for guys to buy them expensive drinks at nightclubs (I am talking about 14-15 year old girls too). Yesterday, coincidentially, I saw an old answer on some question on this site that did talk about that fad going around North America for quite some time already and searching a little more on news sites I read some articles saying that the problem is growing alarmingly in the USA and that teenagers just don't see that oral sex is big deal.

Same for sexting. I learned that term recently because it was mentioned in a national newspaper as becoming the new fad but a few days ago I found out that the term originated from North America as well.

Some other things from Europe are getting down here as well, like some sort of color bracelets that based on its color supposedly tell the other sex what you want: Just a kiss, oral, feeling up, one night stand going all the way, a relationship, etc. (I also read about that on the newspaper). The problem is that some young girls have started to use them both with an intention but in most cases without knowing this meaning and some guys who do know about this fad are just encouraged to harm and sometimes rape these poor young girls.

Maybe I read too much, but most of that I can tell it from personal experience. I go out quite often and see it with my own eyes.

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A female reader, Nime United States +, writes (24 March 2011):

Nime agony auntHi, I don't know what the hell is wrong with Charlotte, NC. I grew up in upstate NY and I've never seen behavior like that (though I've heard of it), but then again it probably depends on what sort of people you hang out with and where you grow up. I know this over-sexualized underworld exists, I just haven't been party to it or had to deal with it. In college I was only friends with Europeans who were also appalled by America's overt sexuality, so I know what you're talking about. Not everyone here is like that, however; neither myself nor any of my American friends ever even had a first boyfriend or girlfriend, let alone sex, until we were in our twenties. I can't even begin to fathom why girls would offer blowjobs to guys they aren't in a longterm relationship with.

Suffice to say, if a guy ever dared to look at me expecting a blowjob I would knock his teeth out, and if I had been there when that guy was trying to push your friend back into that bathroom I would have called the police, I don't care, I would have claimed he was attempting rape. If not rape, he was certainly trying to coerce sex. That is 100% UNACCEPTABLE behavior and I'm sorry your friend had to put up with that.

I'm truly embarrassed knowing you witnessed these things, especially as just a high school student. I'll probably get some flack for this, but next time you come to the US try to stay out of the south; it's a very poor region (the northeast financially carries the rest of the country) and I understand their education system is way behind the rest of the country. I'm sorry to say, but these are the states where we are constantly hearing about stories like an 11 year old girl being gang-raped by 18 men; it doesn't necessarily reflect the rest of the country. That's not to say there aren't any bad seeds up north, but I've lived in plenty of states and I can say as the price of food and quality in public education go up, you'll generally see less of this disgusting behavior you're talking about.

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