Massage

Feeling stress and constant tiredness has unfortunately become an integral part of people’s everyday lives in the developed world. The sedentary life-style and the long-working hours in front of computer screens are two major contributing factors to fatigue. Apart from frequent exercising, massages are also recommended to alleviate body aches and release muscle tension.

Sex is part of our nature as human beings.

But does that mean that it is the SAME across the world?

Let us see how Swedish, Germans, Greeks, French, Indians, Russian and Americans…function!

Greek police have arrested the owner of a massage parlour in the city of Patra for using his business as a front for illicit sexual services. A 37-year-old female Latvian woman, who was employed as a professional masseuse at the establishment, would offer sexual services to clients for extra money, a commission of which went to the owner.

to Merkel (verb)

to perform unsolicited shoulder massage e.g. While Angela was seated, George merkeled her.

To Merkeln

(1) to have a bored and sad expression or be totally stupid e.g. Stop all this merkelning and start coming up with a solution.

At least 116 people were killed on June 30 when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.

Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra.    

Turkish police have detained four men after two French women accused them of sexual abuse at a touristic hamam in Istanbul, Do?an News Agency reported March 7.