@bulky_nerd@fedi.yesmap.net yeah, the post was made in 2008, before the pedo-hysteria reached even higher levels of fever-pitch.
I'm not sure which country he was in, or whether he travelled around in general, but places like NL/Germany were very liberal when it came to certain magazines, until relatively recently.
There was a joke where I lived about girls in the French school being very promiscuous and losing their virginity earlier than any others.
My former friend's ex-girlfriend was one of those girls.
There were kids in one of the schools I went to who went to NL to lose their virginity using a fake ID!
There are some pretty funny comments on the article, talking about kids being naked at the beach (I can confirm this is totally normal where I live) or magazines at grandpas house's bathroom etc... etc...
Americans can't handle sex, really of any kind!
The irony!
They are (arguably) the most sexed up society, but it's all kept repressed, until it explodes like a pressure-cooker.