I'll start with this one:
The hyper-sexual themed fair rides occasionally set up in the middle of the town centers. No holds barred, silicone-breasted women in dominatrix outfits, sort of stuff. Amusing in its irony: quaint European small towns, where people are more reserved and where far less skin shows in general than in the U.S., versus the explicit designs of the fair rides, heavily featuring degrading images of women. Will I miss them? Well, no; boo to the objectification of women, and I don't really want my kids taking in these visuals. But they seem to represent a cultural paradox that has intrigued and sort of amused me.

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I totally get that. when I was 14 the first image that greeted me upon arrival at the Frankfurt airport was an ad for "Dr. Mueller's Sex Shop"; the prevalance of said shop became a joke in our family and we have a picture of my mom in front of one of the stores in Koeln. But I feel like it was a western/central european phenom...never really noticed stuff like that in the 90s in Hungary, nor in Ireland.
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