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(YLE Uutiset) Interesting Finland's sex-ed classes updated because "when young Finns go abroad, they need to understand that it is not normal everywhere to strip naked in a dressing room in front of everybody"   (yle.fi) divider line 130
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2011-10-26 09:03:35 AM
Um, the associated picture contains a sex-toy and is probably NSFW.
 
2011-10-26 09:29:17 AM
you don't like it? so suomi.
 
2011-10-26 09:35:16 AM
Huh, somebody should have told my frat brothers that stuff.
 
2011-10-26 09:35:21 AM
"When young Finns go abroad, they need to understand that it is not normal everywhere to strip naked in a dressing room in front of everybody,"

How are they going to get through the TSA security checks otherwise?
 
2011-10-26 09:38:17 AM
SurfaceTension: Um, the associated picture contains a sex-toy and is probably NSFW.

Your workplace must be awful.
 
2011-10-26 09:38:21 AM
What a naked Fin may look like: Link (new window)
 
2011-10-26 09:39:25 AM
Iceland, Sweden, Finland: they're all ok with nudity. Going for a swin with friends will mean those friends and you will probably be naked, not in costumes.

It helps that they're all much more naturally attractive than any other country, men and women alike.
 
2011-10-26 09:40:26 AM
Note to self: make more Finnish female friends
 
zez
2011-10-26 09:40:39 AM
Finns? (new window)
 
2011-10-26 09:41:33 AM
And never, ever ask "why are you Americans so terrified of open, healthy sexuality, but so fascinated by illicit, deviant sex?"
Not cool.
 
2011-10-26 09:42:36 AM
Bungles: Iceland, Sweden, Finland: they're all ok with nudity. Going for a swin with friends will mean those friends and you will probably be naked, not in costumes.

It helps that they're all much more naturally attractive than any other country, men and women alike.


This thread needs pics of hot, young (adult) Finns to verify your claims.
 
2011-10-26 09:44:07 AM
stuhayes2010: SurfaceTension: Um, the associated picture contains a sex-toy and is probably NSFW.

Your workplace must be awful.


This. In an article clearly about sex education; only George W or his like could be offended.
 
2011-10-26 09:44:40 AM
"You should go to Scandanavia, they're completely sexually liberated there. There's no guilt. No sin. No taboos."

"Sounds like really boring sex".
 
2011-10-26 09:45:19 AM
after i shower at the gym, i like to blow dry my pubes in the mirror, while i have one leg up on the counter.

nobody minds that, right?
 
2011-10-26 09:46:03 AM
macadamnut: And never, ever ask "why are you Americans so terrified of open, healthy sexuality, but so fascinated by illicit, deviant sex?"
Not cool.


Why do all American movies have no problem with torture, violence, killing, and headshots, yet normal sex, and especially a woman getting pleasure from sex, is almost entirely forbidden as a dangerous concept "harmful to kids/family"?
 
2011-10-26 09:46:25 AM
Bungles: Iceland, Sweden, Finland: they're all ok with nudity. Going for a swin with friends will mean those friends and you will probably be naked, not in costumes.

It helps that they're all much more naturally attractive than any other country, men and women alike.


My brother in law lives in Iceland, and was sitting in a communal hot tub in his neighborhood, and Björk hops into the tub with him completely naked.
 
2011-10-26 09:46:35 AM
Sue Johanson moved to Finland?
 
2011-10-26 09:47:58 AM
still processing "in a dressing room in front of everybody"... are they used to dressing rooms with lots of windows? Glass walls?
 
2011-10-26 09:48:00 AM
Teknowaffle: My brother in law lives in Iceland, and was sitting in a communal hot tub in his neighborhood, and Björk hops into the tub with him completely naked.

Oblig:

images3.wikia.nocookie.net
 
2011-10-26 09:48:53 AM
Plant Rights Activist: Note to self: make more Finnish female friends

what this guy said!
 
2011-10-26 09:49:59 AM
some_beer_drinker: after i shower at the gym, i like to blow dry my pubes in the mirror, while i have one leg up on the counter.

nobody minds that, right?


And you're late 50's/early 60's, with the scrotum hanging down to your lower mid-thigh and the buttcheeks of two plastic grocery bags halfway filled with gravel, correct?

Ah yes, I think you attend my gym.
 
2011-10-26 09:50:02 AM
Oznog: Why do all American movies have no problem with torture, violence, killing, and headshots, yet normal sex, and especially a woman getting pleasure from sex, is almost entirely forbidden as a dangerous concept "harmful to kids/family"?

Why do people make this claim, when there are lots and lots of movies with normal sex - including the woman enjoying it - in the movie?
 
2011-10-26 09:50:06 AM
If I win the lottery, I'm moving to sweden.
http://www.thelocal.se/
Specifically the weekend's finest.

/Still looking for a way to view these without the slide show.
 
2011-10-26 09:50:30 AM
Plant Rights Activist: Note to self: make more Finnish female friends

I married a Finnish girl.

There's a NSFW pic about taking a sauna. If you're not naked, you're doing it wrong.
 
2011-10-26 09:51:48 AM
I've got a Finnish neighbor. Always wise to knock before you walk into his house... else you might just find him washing dishes in the buff.
 
2011-10-26 09:52:26 AM
I'm an old irish boy from the Bronx. My wife is a Finn, raised in Sweden, came to the states in her twenties. Our current houseguest is a 19yo Finn, also raised in Sweden [daughter of friends].

When I got home from working last night, they were hanging out in the 8 foot whirlpool in the master bath.

Sometimes, life is good.
 
2011-10-26 09:52:31 AM
Plant Rights Activist: Note to self: make more Finnish female friends

THIS

and btw, Finnish sex-ed classes: SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
2011-10-26 09:53:28 AM
Finland sux. Sweden rox.
 
2011-10-26 09:54:16 AM
IamAwake: Why do people make this claim, when there are lots and lots of movies with normal sex - including the woman enjoying it - in the movie?

No no no. He's totally correct. Just look at our ratings board. Sylvester Stallone firing a truck-mounted machine gun into human hamburger for 30 minutes? Cutting farkers in half with bullets? "Rated R".

Image of a vagina on screen for more than 5 seconds? "NC-17".

That vagina get touched? "X".
 
2011-10-26 09:54:49 AM
TheGogmagog: If I win the lottery, I'm moving to sweden.
http://www.thelocal.se/
Specifically the weekend's finest.

/Still looking for a way to view these without the slide show.


You would need to win the lottery to afford the drink prices in those places. You wouldn't have to deal with the slide show though.
 
2011-10-26 09:55:48 AM
Oznog: Why do all American movies have no problem with torture, violence, killing, and headshots, yet normal sex, and especially a woman getting pleasure from sex, is almost entirely forbidden as a dangerous concept "harmful to kids/family"?

Wait, what?! are you living in the same country as I am? You'd never see a series like "Sex and the City" Where dudes brag about all the hot babes they nailed (with softcore porn shots) and ponder the mystery that is love.... On the other hand, Put girls in it, and ratings go through the roof.

A whole generation of women expect to have a vaginal orgasm every time they have sexual intercourse, when most of them can't or won't get to do so.

Rather than empowering, this has made a large percentage of women feel like damaged goods.
 
2011-10-26 09:56:50 AM
rubi_con_man: Rather than empowering, this has made a large percentage of women feel like damaged goods.

Are you trying to imply that a large percentage of women aren't damaged goods? Have you had a look around you lately?
 
2011-10-26 09:57:48 AM
Oznog: macadamnut: And never, ever ask "why are you Americans so terrified of open, healthy sexuality, but so fascinated by illicit, deviant sex?"
Not cool.

Why do all American movies have no problem with torture, violence, killing, and headshots, yet normal sex, and especially a woman getting pleasure from sex, is almost entirely forbidden as a dangerous concept "harmful to kids/family"?


And I realised as soon as I posted that I left out "and attach an element of sexuality to non-sexual nudity or partial nudity, even or especially of children?!?"
 
2011-10-26 09:58:45 AM
tricycleracer: Teknowaffle: My brother in law lives in Iceland, and was sitting in a communal hot tub in his neighborhood, and Björk hops into the tub with him completely naked.

Oblig:

[images3.wikia.nocookie.net image 100x100]


On topic
pixhost.me
Link (new window)
 
2011-10-26 09:59:46 AM
zez: Finns? (new window)

Video has appalling lack of dressing rooms (naked Finns)

re TFA: It's not "normal" to strip in a dressing room? Where then? or is there another Finnish meaning to dressing room?

I am thinking that if you are in a public (not private) dressing room, most likely you're at the gym and there are showers present?

What are the other scenarios? and especially, which of those would be an inappropriate place to be "dressing"?
 
2011-10-26 10:01:20 AM
rubi_con_man: Oznog: Why do all American movies have no problem with torture, violence, killing, and headshots, yet normal sex, and especially a woman getting pleasure from sex, is almost entirely forbidden as a dangerous concept "harmful to kids/family"?

Wait, what?! are you living in the same country as I am? You'd never see a series like "Sex and the City" Where dudes brag about all the hot babes they nailed (with softcore porn shots) and ponder the mystery that is love.... On the other hand, Put girls in it, and ratings go through the roof.

A whole generation of women expect to have a vaginal orgasm every time they have sexual intercourse, when most of them can't or won't get to do so.

Rather than empowering, this has made a large percentage of women feel like damaged goods.


The difference is that violence doesn't have to be limited to implication. Special effects are used, but only because it's hard to keep a studio open when all your casting calls for extras say "Must have affairs in order".
 
2011-10-26 10:03:38 AM
it is not normal everywhere to strip naked in a dressing room in front of everybody,

Ummm..isn't that what dressing rooms are for? Isn't some nudity expected when in a room designated for changing your dressings?

/while growing up lived a few years with a Finnish family.
//I. Love. Saunas.
 
2011-10-26 10:04:24 AM
Two things I hate. People who are intolerant of others' cultures, and the Finnish.
 
2011-10-26 10:05:54 AM
I remember Doc Daneeka in Catch 22 kept the male and female genital models in separate cabinets - to avoid a scandal.
 
2011-10-26 10:06:16 AM
fnordest: zez: Finns? (new window)

Video has appalling lack of dressing rooms (naked Finns)

re TFA: It's not "normal" to strip in a dressing room? Where then? or is there another Finnish meaning to dressing room?

I am thinking that if you are in a public (not private) dressing room, most likely you're at the gym and there are showers present?

What are the other scenarios? and especially, which of those would be an inappropriate place to be "dressing"?


I think what they are getting at is that as more and more people from more conservative countries move into Finland, there are going to be more situations where there might be a situation where in a dressing room there are people who don't approve of nudity in a situation of what is considered normal to be nude in when you are in Finland, even in something like a dressing/changing room at work/school/gym

/at least that is my take on it.
 
2011-10-26 10:06:25 AM
nightlyraider: stuhayes2010: SurfaceTension: Um, the associated picture contains a sex-toy and is probably NSFW.

Your workplace must be awful.

This. In an article clearly about sex education; only George W or his like could be offended.


I wasn't offended. Except maybe it's size for which I'm clearly no match. Just you never know what your co-workers are going to fly off the handle about so I wanted to put up a bit of a warning.
 
2011-10-26 10:07:00 AM
hot dancing Finns (new window)



// ok so i Lied
 
2011-10-26 10:07:16 AM
Hey subby! How about a heads up on the NSFW picture?
 
2011-10-26 10:09:43 AM
rubi_con_man: A whole generation of women expect to have a vaginal orgasm every time they have sexual intercourse, when most of them can't or won't get to do so.

Rather than empowering, this has made a large percentage of women feel like damaged goods.



Or, maybe...just maybe...your doing it wrong.

If "most" can't or won't, there'd be hell to pay. "Most", in my experience, do just fine.
 
2011-10-26 10:13:01 AM
SurfaceTension: Um, the associated picture contains a sex-toy and is probably NSFW.

Quit stealing time from your boss and GBTW, and it won't be a concern.
 
2011-10-26 10:18:05 AM
SkunkWerks: I've got a Finnish neighbor. Always wise to knock before you walk into his house... else you might just find him washing dishes in the buff.

Otherwise, you generally walk into neighbors' homes without knocking?
 
2011-10-26 10:19:03 AM
lecas: hot dancing Finns (new window)

// ok so i Lied


Nice. XD As a speaker of both English and German I love listening to Finnish because in my head it sounds like a combination of the two languages played backwards.

/serious headfark
 
2011-10-26 10:19:41 AM
Teknowaffle: Bungles: Iceland, Sweden, Finland: they're all ok with nudity. Going for a swin with friends will mean those friends and you will probably be naked, not in costumes.

It helps that they're all much more naturally attractive than any other country, men and women alike.

My brother in law lives in Iceland, and was sitting in a communal hot tub in his neighborhood, and Björk hops into the tub with him completely naked.


Pics or it didnt happen! I say again PICS OR THAT shiat DIDNT HAPPEN!!
 
2011-10-26 10:19:49 AM
www.hanna-maria.com

Finn to the left, Finn to the right

/and both hot
 
2011-10-26 10:21:04 AM
someguy945: SkunkWerks: I've got a Finnish neighbor. Always wise to knock before you walk into his house... else you might just find him washing dishes in the buff.

Otherwise, you generally walk into neighbors' homes without knocking?


Picture missing from SkunkWerks's profile:
upload.wikimedia.org
 
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