Hi, it’s Niki.
Always say meow instead of hello.
The best things in the world are felines, chocolates, mermaids and beaches.
“If I had an empty head, as some folks say I do,
I’d sweep out all the cobwebs and rent it out to you,
And have you fill it up with all the things you say and do,
Then I’d offer twice the price, and rent it back from you.”
Love hearts, tiny naked angels with wings and arrows, boxes of chocolates, roses – red ones, candle light (extra points if they’re vanilla scented!) are our average poignant representations of love and dating. Hardly strange, eh? Over the years capitalism has progressively drilled into us acceptable ideas of romance and what constitutes as ‘awww’.
Poetry, lingerie, love songs, French kisses, proposals on one knee and holding hands are some of the more accepted, encouraged and indoctrinated recipes for romantic dating. But lo and behold! my little love doves, what you know as romantic are only Hollywood constructs of courting and wooing. Let’s take a quick trip around the world to explore a few, um, fascinatingly unconventional (ancient and current) dating rituals to broaden your horizons and re-evaluate your aww measure.
CAMBODIA: Want sexual liberty? You should have been born here! Parents in the Kreung tribe are far from prudish; they make their daughters their very own love shack or “courting huts” where girls are encouraged to entertain men, as many of them as they wish to, until the find the ‘right guy’. If a girl fancies a boy, she calls him over and they can have all the sex they want away from prying eyes and ears in their stilted little playhouse.
Aw Scale: Um, no premarital sex stigma and your very own mini sex mansion is every hormonal teenagers dream. More yay! than aw.
Aw Scale: Kudos for getting progressive in a nation where women still wear a veil.
Aw Scale: Dude, no. Just no. This is so illegal in most countries.
Aw Scale: Aw, erotic bird like tribal dance for rustic seduction, I’m in!
Aw Scale: Oui, oui, très aww and très chilled out and french men, très Oo la la!
Aw Scale: Awwww, that’s adorable! and highly convenient if you’re a foodie.
Aw Scale: Ew scale? A little heavy on the pheromones, but whatever floats your boat.
Yeah so that concludes our little weird wild and wondrous dating across the globe. Which one do you aww the most? (Anything but the armpit apples, please).
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Sources:
1. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0767654.html
2. http://love.allwomenstalk.com/funny-dating-customs-around-the-world
3. http://www.yourtango.com/experts/hayley-matthews/13-weird-dating-practices-other-countries
4. http://www.gooverseas.com/articles/dating-customs-traditions-around-world
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