Oh, boy. I stay out for a couple of days and look what happens...
My two cents now:
Brazil is a country with a heavy sexual culture. You'll see naked people on open (free) TV, you'll see people having sex on TV, you'll see naked people on the streets (ever heard of Carnaval?), you'll hear and talk about it just about everywhere. It is part of our culture that one of the best ways to have fun is to have sex, and most of the time it's that what matters. It may sound a bit like Sodom and Gomorrah (sp?) to some of you, but that's the truth. Of course there are lots of exceptions (there is people who think the way Sandwich does, and I totally respect them), but the statistics would prove what I'm saying. Just walk around and ask people what they think of sex and you'll see.
(Sidenote: Shrike, I don't think you'd really be coming here if Brazil wasn't like that, eh? 
)As for my own personal opinion, I'll answer a different way: I
don't believe in marriage. It's simply the best, fastest way to ruin a great relationship. See, while you're not married, you try to do everything to please your partner, to make her (or him, but I don't think there are many women around here
) happy, to give her (or him) what she (or he) wants. This all ends (or at least is havily diminished) after married: you have a friggin'
contract saying that that person
belongs to you, and that's where the end begins. I had a few stable relationships, and they all ended when that sense of property started to appear (I'm on a great relationship now, and thankfully it's going a different way from the previous ones)...
I believe in living together with another person if you love her (or him), but writing up a contract is kinda stupid (again, my point of view). I don't like the idea of adultery either (baaaad family experience), but without that damn contract saying what you can and cannot do it's way easier to talk about... hmm, how can I say this...
other ways to have fun.
Come on, you all must agree that this is what life is about: having fun. You work hard, you do everything right not to break any laws, you respect the others so they respect you, with this one objective, that is to
have a good time (well, at least I do). You play FS2 for fun, you MOD for fun, you play RPGs for fun, you go to the beach for fun, you skydive for fun, you drive for fun (mostly, at least), and you have sex for fun (well, unless you
really want children anyway).
Hm, guess I didn't say much in the end, but those are my thoughts. I respect everyone else's thoughts, so if you think that the meaning of life is not that one, go ahead, I'm alright with it! And just to finish this post, here's an... er...
insightful image:
Be happy, and
Carnaval is coming! Whoohoooo!! [This message has been edited by Styxx (edited 01-20-2002).]
