@All berating my home country
Totally agree. My language is gonna sound harsh, but the people here are highly insecure when it comes to talking about things like sex. Dads prefer to not talk to their kids rather then telling them to use protection. Hence the HIV infection rates shouldn't be surprising.
People here are over-sensitive about issues such as religion, 'our glorious history and tradition', because that's what we remind ourselves to feel good when foreigners talk about poverty and illiteracy and disease. People here don't have the balls to admit that this banter on 'culture and tradition' is just aggravating the problems that already exist.
Arranged marriages are the most popular kind. Frustrates me that it's people's parents that 'advertise' on the papers and decide whom their kids are gonna be spending the rest of their lives with. The social structure, if visualised, would look like ruined and infested remains of a glorious and ancient castle.
C'mon countrymen, sex is just an act. Your ancestors realized it, they explored it, they developed it, they wrote the world's first manual on it, and now you shun it until it gets as backward as every other issue in the country. 99.5% don't know what a clit is, even in the local languages.
Sorry for all the rant, it hurts me to see where we're going. Have a blog on such issues, and can't help raising my voice where I can help it.