In this apartment building are a Cuban, a Korean, a Lebanese, a Frenchman, two Mexicans, three Americans, two Canadians, and me. The Americans and Canadians had a convention outside my window, to which I did not relate at all.
Them 1: Public displays of affection in this country are quite extreme. Every park bench has one.
Them 2: Yes, it is a sign of repression. It is inappropriate.
[Me, silently: It is a sign of crowded quarters. Why does it make you uncomfortable?]
Them 3: And then there are those love motels. A gross and terrible thing.
Them 4: They exist because it is so taboo to have sex in a house.
[Me, silently: Remember those crowded quarters. And anyway, why should you let someone into your house, unless you are going to live with them or something like that? Houses are private. Should I bring someone in here, causing the common utility bill to rise and the maid to wash more sheets, possibly making noise, and creating sharper competition for those chairs on the patio? Should I impose them upon you in that way … or have you know my life to that degree?]
Have I become a repressed Latin, as I think this group would say, or is this group just differently repressed?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I must have a different cultural makeup entirely, because I am offended by neither sexual model but positively take umbrage that a maid is washing anyone’s sheets in an apartment building. I know it is a done thing but I don’t like it here and I don’t like it elsewhere, either.
Though I am still confused over how they could see PDA + “love motels” as a sign of repression when really it is the exact opposite. They must be grasping at straws because they are the repressed ones.
How does showing public affection make one “repressed?” I would think it would be the exact opposite. And if love motels exist because “it is taboo to have sex in a house” (?!?) then what would they make of Airline Highway in New Orleans!
When I was lonely and miserable, I used to make the exact same kind of indignant statements about kissing couples. 🙂
People are going to do what they do no matter how I feel about it. I remind myself of that every time I see an old guy with a young Asian woman.