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by curtis3389 602 days ago
IIRC, America's weird relationship with sex is rooted in our Puritan history.

Idk about our comfort with depictions of violence. We definitely have a history of "cowboy & indian" films, so it could come from the glorification of our genocidal past (or the genocidal past itself). The Vietnam War on the TV every night for a couple decades is another good option.