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Bitesize Ep 54 - Measuring Love: How Romantic are Brits on Valentine's Day?

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Why Brits Make a Joke When the Topic of Sex Ever Comes Up

Anthropologist Kate Fox thinks the stereotype Brits get in the bedroom for being awkward frigid and incapable of flirting our way to the bedroom is actually less based on how devoted we are to the big man upstairs or how terrible we are between the sheets. She says it's more so because we find the topic itself incredibly taboo and at the same time a great opportunity to make a joke at our own expense. We do like to mock the idea that we ever do it hmm I don't know if many French men would have a knee-jerk reaction to joke about how small they're wink years or an Italian who openly says they've forgotten what to do down there. But considering

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