This isn’t Animal House, you know.
Clearly shocked by the Northwestern University sex-toy-in-human-sexuality-class-incident in US-Amerika, German Bundestag President Norbert Lammert just isn’t going to take any chances and has banned the sale of condoms in parliament here (they sold them in the cigarette machines–uh, can they buy condoms in Congress too?).
Just in case German parliamentarians get any weird ideas or something, I guess. And I’d rather not think about that if you don’t mind so I support this guy 100%.
“Students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy.”
Observing Hermann 
They sell cigs in the Bundestag? Sounds far more contraversial than a party-hat vendor.
And of course in the Speigel forum, you find the typical douchebag commentary:
…und dann, statt Strafversetzung in Statistikkurse, neue US-Folterkurse, wie z.B. Waterboarding, einrichten.
Da wird sich dann kein Elternteil beschweren, daß sein volljähriges Kind, so etwas nützliches gelernt bekommt!
and
gerade in den USA.
Die sollen sich lieber aufregen, dass jeder Hans unf Franz mit einer Waffe in der Gegenherumlaufen kann.
Sex ist da irgendwie verpönt, aber Waffen scheinen sehr angesagt.
Merkwürdige Gesellschaft
This from a population where there is virtually no-one left of child-bearing age…. Where the nickname “Paulschen” doesn’t refer to a child named Paul any more, but rather a brand of dildo, meant as a palliative for the fact that hardly any of the women manage to keep a man in their lives for any length of time – even the ones that don’t act like punitive, control-freak ogres.
My wife, who has only traveled overseas twice in her life, received the shock of her life at the Munich airport. She was attracted to a “flower display” at the Beate Uhse store. The display was actually brightly colored dildos arranged like a flower basket.
I hope you explained to her that things are, well, different in the Old Country, Murph. That reminded of this guy. I see cars driving around town all the time with that Facebook logo they use there plastered all over them:
http://dildo-koenig.de/seite5.html
PS: Don’t even read those commentaries, Joe. Or better yet, compare the German commentaries with “unfriendly” commentaries you will find in the UK, say, for instance. There is absolutely no comparison anywhere. German comments (at that level) are just plain mean, nasty and rotten. They’re all unhappy here, in other words.
Flags of their Fathers:
The fit-in dildo was named “Louis´che”.
It says “voluntary” in dutch. I have no idea what dramatic significance that has to anybody – especially if, like any normal human being, makes decisions about their lives for themselves.