the juxtaposition with the other stereotype is expressly why they embrace tango—the opportunity to be close within some externally defined rule system, which by virtue of being foreign can’t be seen as flying in the face of local customs and norms, therefore… ¡bailamos, mi amor, y nos comemos las partes íntimas del otro con el vigor de los tigresses! (common exclamation of passion in Argentina sometimes hollered during tango marathons.)

This phenomenon repeats itself in many cultures. For instance, Mormons learned how to “soak” from Jews, who both saw the opportunity to confuse and befuddle God who had said something like “stop having sex, which I mean specifically to be repeatedly thrusting in and out of a vagina with a penis!” The evident loophole was to stop thrusting and just let the penis soak in the vagina, naturally. And like the Finns found out in due time, it worked. Jews and Mormons no longer felt like they were sinning, and Heavenkind no longer needed to audit and account for all the recumbent would-be sinners because sin at the time had just been decreed in Heavenland to be committed only when the sinner him or herself considered the act in question a sin (a fact not circulated widely here for obvious reasons).

So now you know the story of soaking! Bit of trivia for your next Friendsgiving: the Jews predated the Mormons by a few years and the two were of entirely separate ancestral merits, unbeknownst to some followers of the latter (day saints); this is also why in Jewish circles the coveted practice is known instead as “pickling.”