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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (79034)	4/27/2000 2:18:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 108807

By no means atypical, especially for an old person... that "let's see if it's grown any" line, which I hadn't yet heard when I last posted, sounds so typical of a rural grandma here that I laughed out loud. In general, mouths, genitals, etc. just don't have that untouchable/shameful/bad connotation here that they do in the US. Grandparents here are also much more touchy, much less reserved than they are there, and they do and say pretty much whatever they feel like doing or saying, even in front of people. In a rural area here, criticism of an elder is practically unthinkable, unless they are doing something wildly dangerous, and the eccentric granny is a pretty common sight. As I said to Joan, I've long wondered if the American treatment of genitalia as untouchable, unmentionable, and unacknowledgeable (a word?) is really healthier than the approach I've seen here. There was a well-publicized incident here some years ago... an American expat family saw a provincial housemaid tickling their baby's penis while singing him to sleep. They tried to have her prosecuted, and got quite vindictive about it; you'd have thought (and perhaps they did) that the child had been maimed for life. But in the village from whence she came (where any teenaged girl has spent many hours with babies), she had no doubt learned that it makes babies smile and laugh, and how could anything that does that be bad? I think intent is an essential component of molestation.