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Necking Nooks

Jesse Walker | 9.16.2003 1:41 AM

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Western sexual mores have invaded Bombay -- and run up against a staggering absence of personal privacy. The situation is exacerbated by two more ingredients: Hindu theocrats, and rent control.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. The Count   23 years ago

    Isn't that three more ingredients?

  2. The Count   23 years ago

    Sorry, saw a comma that wasn't there

  3. Russ   23 years ago

    With a lack of privacy restricting intimacy, shouldn't population growth be slowing?

  4. Slim Shady   23 years ago

    "Or we'll have to live with my parents. Or I'll have to make a quick buck doing some shady work," he jokes.

    Ah yes, shady work, it does pay well. Thank you government regulation and interference, you allow for immensely profitable work to help make ends meet.

    Someone once told me about a grand retirement community for former high office politicians, Shady Acres. I hear its in an unspecified place in the great state of Maine.

  5. Anonymous   23 years ago

    Must be a pretty smelly place

  6. Madog   23 years ago

    "Teen-agers on a dare often snatch the scarves away, causing much embarrassment and occasionally fisticuffs. "

    I really like the word "fisticuffs". More people should use it.

  7. Plutarck   23 years ago

    And remember folks, this is the birthplace of The Kama Sutra and Lord Buddha (well, the country anyway).

    Damn, that is a mighty, mighty long way to fall.

  8. Ron Hardin   23 years ago

    I thought nooks were Korea.

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