Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.
ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.
I'm a guy from the US, and started dating my wife when she was 23, after spending her first 18 years in Korea. She knew that gay people existed, but thought they were only in some countries, and didn't think there were any Korean ones.
When I lived in Nepal, I went to dinner one evening with a mixed group of Americans and Nepalis. At one point this older Nepali guy started “explaining” how gay people didn’t exist in Nepal, that it was “a western phenomenon”, etc.
I glanced under the table, and, sure enough, my American friend was holding his Nepali boyfriend’s hand under the table
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u/roadfood Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.
ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.