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Originally Posted by papagmp
I lived in Europe for almost half my life and there are thousands of treaties, policies and laws that lump Europe into one basket. Just like there are thousands that lump The Americas into one basket. Pull your head out of your ass and smell the flowers dipshit.
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Where in Europe did you live? Was it a small dark cellar with no contact with the outside world except a TV that only showed a right wing propaganda channel? There is a lot of anti-EU feeling across most (probably all) member countries, and the more right wing of these (e.g. the "England for the English - keep the foreign johnnies out" brigade) put out a lot of false propaganda, for example "Europe is going to ban the traditional British sausage", but basically these are lies pumped about for political reasons. I guess when in Europe you spent too much time with the conspiracy theorists.
In your previous post you say There are policies the lump all of the European countries into one basket -
EU and non-EU" There is NOT A SINGLE LAW THAT COVERS
BOTH EU AND NON EU COUNTRIES except where the law a blindingly obvious one (e.g. it is probably illegal to murder someone in all European countries).
WRT the EU alone (which is less than half of Europe): As I said in my previous post, there are a few laws common to all countries, but these are all either health and safety (such as minimum standards for baby seats) or to do with trade between other EU members (for example one member country cannot stop the import of legal goods from another member country). But these are mostly minor things and have no effect on non-European countries. They defiantly have no impact on the matters this thread is about.
However with regard to your views on European porn laws: I am guessing your time in Europe was in the mid 1990s or earlier when porn laws were a lot stronger than they are now (a hell of a lot stronger in Britain), things have changed in the past 15 years.
When you say "Your English-speaking countries are actually parts of the United Kingdom, which is ONE government and which will have one set of laws." YES that was the entire point of my first post!!!
In answer to "How many nude beaches do you guys have in the UK?", quite a few (I have twice ended up walking the dog on a nudist beach without realising it because they weren't fenced off from the rest of the beach and I missed the warning notices). However since you are unlikely to get arrested for sunbathing naked on any beach, there is not as much call for them as there is elsewhere (British law on nudity is a little weird in that it is only illegal if someone objects, if no one objects to you sunbathing naked, the police are powerless to act).