'Strange is just a different point of view...'

Co-written by Jinxypie and her Hub.

In all reality, most people look at things differently. In your circle of friends you have things in common and all get along great. What most people don’t see is how everyone perceives things just a little differently. Let’s say while discussing some piece of news or something considered gossip, you all take a different view on the subject. While most of the time you give the topic at hand no more than a few seconds of conscious thought, there are instances when you realize that you are uncomfortable, amused, interested or even shocked by the topic. In these situations no one person is right or wrong, everyone is raised differently in many different surroundings or came to their own conclusions about these subjects, many times without ever being exposed to them personally.

Please remember I am using these following examples as purely that - “examples”. I don’t condone, condemn, or for the most part even form an opinion about the specific subjects mentioned. I simply want you to look at a few “trendy” instances of how cultures and societies are slightly and sometimes dramatically different with an open mind and I’ll get to the point sooner or later.

In Iran, any suntanned woman will be imprisoned. As an American woman, and an extremely fair-skinned one at that, I couldn’t imagine being told by my government that I cannot use a tanning bed anymore, or even tan outside my own home. The fine for such debauchery is imprisonment. Yet most of you women get up every morning and head out of the house without ever thinking about covering up every inch of your exposed skin. You are probably thinking ‘Wow that is unbelievable! How could a woman be mistreated like that? I could never live that way. I have my beliefs and that is incomprehensible.’ If that’s what you thought then you’re not getting the idea here. What you need to do in this situation is think of how these women who live this way every day and have no problems with it would think of YOU. How would they be able to wrap their heads around the idea of each of you whoreish women who show their faces, arms, and maybe even ankles in public? Not to mention those of us who bare more than that. Do you see what I’m getting at? Most of you are being judged right now for things you consider completely normal. Granted, these people don’t know your names or who you are but we as a society are being judged nonetheless by others for doing everyday mundane tasks like wearing a pair of shorts. It’s all about perception!

How about this? The legal drinking age in Canada is (depending on the territory and province) 18 or 19 years. There’s no minimum drinking age in Ireland as long as you’re with a parent and not in a public place. In the United Kingdom, you may drink alcohol at age 5 in private, at age 16 in a public place as long as it’s with a meal and you’re accompanied by an adult, or otherwise at age 18. In the United States, the ripe age of 21 years is the magic number for legally drinking and purchasing alcoholic beverages. After reading this I’m confident that the majority of you knew that the legal drinking ages in other countries varied, I’m also pretty certain that at least half of you knew that in some countries children could drink legally. So the aforementioned statement didn’t shock you. I am also sure the other half of you had never given it a second thought, and if asked would have probably assumed that the legal age to consume alcohol in different parts of the world was somewhere in the vicinity of 21. This is what I would like you to focus on. As humans we tend to assume things based on what we have been exposed to, never putting a second thought into the subtle behaviors of others that are inclined to different ways of thinking. If any of those people that were shocked to learn this information were to visit the UK and noticed a 16 year old drinking a beer, they would most likely wait to see if the police came to arrest the parent for child abuse. The idea here is don’t always assume things of others just because you haven’t seen them do it. This goes for anything, not just drinking a beer.

What about nudity on television? Ever watched British TV and saw a little more than you expected? They aren’t as worried about someone seeing a woman’s breasts or someone’s buttocks on a television show. Keep in mind this is on regular programming, not HBO or Cinemax. Imagine watching an episode of Friends in which Phoebe decides she wants to be a stripper and does! Remember the infamous Super Bowl Halftime Show in which Justin Timberlake “accidentally” exposed Janet Jackson’s breast? That caused lots of pressure on the FCC to set restrictions and use higher “moral standards”. Before you start thinking I’m advocating nudity on sitcoms ask yourself this; do you know someone from the UK, ever dated a French person, or had a neighbor from Australia? Did you think these people were sex crazed lunatics? Did you rush your children inside the house the second they walked down the street, or alert the local schools that there were predators lurking nearby? Why not? These people have been exposed to nudity on television and in books since a very young age there must be something wrong with them, right? If you didn’t know this information about these other countries are you going to report them now? I ask again why not? Because, there is nothing wrong with these people. They live the same as everybody else. These countries produce lawyers, doctors, gas station attendants, murders, momma’s boys, and thieves just like all the rest. Just because you were raised a certain way doesn’t always make it the correct way, just as much as it doesn’t make it the wrong way either. Always question a line of thinking before automatically putting it in the bad column. You don’t think badly of a person doing something that is completely normal in their own culture, yet some people think horribly of a person doing something different within their own culture.

One more, if you don’t mind. You drive on which side of the road? Some countries have you driving on the right side of the road, others on the left. It all is left up to where you are in the world. When you grow up only knowing one way to do things, it’s really foreign to you to think about doing it any other way. But what happens when you travel? It’s a bit of a shock, to have your whole way of thinking turned all around. You’re extremely conscious of what you’re doing, you pay closer attention to everything happening around you, and you feel frustrated. You get behind the wheel of a car and you suddenly have a one track mind -- “Stay on the wrong side of the road”. Where am I going with this one, you ask? Well, being around something different is, for the lack of a better word, different. You may think it’s fun or interesting, or you may just hate it. If you experience the latter you may say things like “I’m never getting used to this, I hate it!” or “I’m going to sit in my hotel and just not be around it, you can keep your backwards cars”. If, however you are willing to forego the discontent of this new thing that has just turned your world upside down, the strangest thing will happened. You will get used to it. You may never fully love driving on the opposite side of the road but you will become ok with it. You might even learn to find good things about it, for instance maybe they let you make a left on red or you learned how to shift with your left hand and can show off to all your friends back home. The theory here is; just because you were suddenly exposed to something shocking and you feel like you can never get past it, with a little time and a willingness to learn and not hide from it, after a while you will be ok and not be able to remember why you were so angry in the first place. Plus as an added bonus you may learn something along the way!

What have we learned here? That we’re all really STRANGE! No, that’s not it. That what others may consider NORMAL may in fact be WEIRD to us (and vice versa). Maybe to look at the other side of the coin before you pass judgment. Something that may seem incredibly unheard of or unreal may be the way that people have to, or choose to, live their lives. Most importantly we have learned that nothing in life is every really cut and dry and as people we have to be more understanding of the choices and beliefs of others.
And now without further delay, my point;

Hello, my name is Jinxypie; I have sex on a regular basis with men that aren’t my husband. I am truly in love with my husband but I enjoy the sexual satisfaction of multiple men in varying numbers. My husband knows and encourages what I do and loves me for it. I teach others about this way of life through blogs, videos, and email correspondence. Oh and I also have a website in which I showcase what I do in the form of pornographic videos and images, and that’s just scratching the surface…

What do you think about that?