“The debate over the adultery law triggered by the scandal has highlighted a paradoxical aspect of South Korean culture: the juxtaposition of straight-laced traditional values with increasingly liberal attitudes toward sex.
The government estimates the nation’s sex trade at 4.4 percent of its gross domestic product, with more than half a million women active in the business. Not far from school grounds, love motels offer short stays and such amenities for patrons as covering their license plates.
Pornographic Web sites proliferate in a country where 8 of every 10 households have broadband Internet. But in classrooms, sex education is discouraged.”
Children, today’s new word is ‘paradoxical’. Repeat after me, ‘pa-ra-do-xical’. It’s a nice way of saying ‘hypocritical’ when you don’t want your editors to be flooded with phone calls and hate mail from angry netizens. What? Pardon me? What’s a ‘netizen’? It’s a young man who doesn’t have a girlfriend, dear.
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“The debate over the adultery law triggered by the scandal has highlighted a paradoxical aspect of South Korean culture: the juxtaposition of straight-laced traditional values with increasingly liberal attitudes toward sex.
The government estimates the nation’s sex trade at 4.4 percent of its gross domestic product, with more than half a million women active in the business. Not far from school grounds, love motels offer short stays and such amenities for patrons as covering their license plates.
Pornographic Web sites proliferate in a country where 8 of every 10 households have broadband Internet. But in classrooms, sex education is discouraged.”
Children, today’s new word is ‘paradoxical’. Repeat after me, ‘pa-ra-do-xical’. It’s a nice way of saying ‘hypocritical’ when you don’t want your editors to be flooded with phone calls and hate mail from angry netizens. What? Pardon me? What’s a ‘netizen’? It’s a young man who doesn’t have a girlfriend, dear.
“She admitted that she had had a sexual relationship with the singer, but not with the chef.”
I think that’s referred to as the “I Shot the Sheriff (but I did not shoot the deputy)” defence.