In a message dated 3/6/2008 8:10:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, innocentkiller(a)gmail.com writes: By "flaunting their sexuality," I was referring to being openly gay with a partner, holding hands, sharing a room, that kind of thing. I guess "flaunting" was a bad choice of words, "publicly displaying" would probably be closer to my point. A quick comment here: I think that in a conservative society people would expect men to share a room with men and women to share a room with women. That would not be raising any eyebrows. As for two men holding hands in public, one of the first things I noticed in my first exposure to Middle Eastern culture is that it is actually quite common for two men to walk down the street hand in hand. This is no more a sign of their sexuality than two men kissing each other on the cheek when meeting in some parts of Europe or the Middle East. Anecdotally, in the 1980s my friends and I used to love watching the Jordanian English news at 10 pm every night. The opening line was always "His Majesty the King today ..." which was often followed by our having a betting pool over how many people he would kiss. D **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)