Steve Cobb
1 min readOct 27, 2021

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Tessa hyper-generalizes even about about ‘African women’, as if they were all the same! That’s worse than generalizing about Europeans. Even little Ghana is varied. Tessa cited a video of bare-breasted Zulus, but I doubt you’ll see many such women walking down the streets of Accra or Nairobi.

Being American, I was gobsmacked by the promiscuity, with or without any skin-exposure signals, when I first lived abroad, in Finland and Russia. But it turned out that they are extreme—American sexual activity is actually boringly average:

https://www.indy100.com/offbeat/virginity-map-7319976

I’m fairly confident that all men are sensitive to females exposing skin beyond the local norms, as well as other signals. And they’re always pushing. Tessa’s third-date rule? I first heard it in Russia, not the US. And from a Ghanaian friend (and my own time in Kenya), I know that men are pushing for sex on other continents as well.

Now in Germany, I’m no longer surprised when foreigners mansplain to the locals how they should live. In some countries, foreigners would be expected to respect their host nations’ norms, but complaining is our extra-national pastime. One thing different about Germany is that prostitution is legal, so men are less likely to pursue sex via pickup and dating.

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Steve Cobb
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