Sex laws.

Recently I asked a friend of mine for advice relating to how I should be pursuing a girl we both know. His first response was "That's weird; you've just never manifested any kind of interest in her before."

Of course not--I'm Norwegian, just like everyone else from my town. At my high school, couples would blow off class and sneak off to sit behind the bleachers at the football field and stare wordlessly at the same distant object. That was considered scandalous.