Love is in the Air
Last month an online newspaper reported a story about a very uninhibited couple on a subway platform in Barcelona, complete with video. Spanish nightly news picked up on it and showed the most suitable extract. It seemed the couple just couldn't wait to get to wherever they were going and decided to start things on a bench in the subway station. It didn't matter that there were other passengers walking by. In fact, when people realized what was happening they snickered and then laughed as they made comments about the couple's actions. The video itself was taken by one of the women waiting for the train. Nobody was angry or puritanically shocked. Just flabbergasted that the couple seemed to have no modesty whatsoever. I can't imagine that scene playing out on a subway platform in the United States. There is such a constrained view of sex in that country that I don't know how some television sit-coms were ever allowed. I remember watching Three's Company a long...