Necking Nooks
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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Isn't that three more ingredients?
Sorry, saw a comma that wasn't there
With a lack of privacy restricting intimacy, shouldn't population growth be slowing?
"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.
Must be a pretty smelly place
"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.
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.
I thought nooks were Korea.