Kultur 5

In this chapter, the articles were short, sweet, and quite entertaining. It seems that people in germany are desensitized to sex in a much more relaxed way than Americans. There is no taboo here, nothing is brushed to the unspoken parts of society. Sex is sex. This sentiment also radiates through the way in which flirting happens in Germany.  We flirt out in the open, and are very forward with what we want as Americans. Germans, however, are not forward at all. In fact, flirting is simple and unnoticeable to a foreigner. I'm not really sure how the article about the Kolfrau fits in with the theme of these articles, but it is interesting to know there is an actual market for such a type of labor in Germany. The use of the word entschudligung is nothing knew to this class, and so I had little interest in that article. The last article about women in Germany was informative and interesting, as it seems to follow a parallel path to women's equality in America.