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Originally Posted by jewels
Doesn't the preceding sentence make it clear?
"Some women clam up, and the conversation is directed elsewhere. Some become incredibly uncomfortable, but discuss it anyway. Others seem too motivated to discuss it - the floodgates open and I learn far more than I expected about their personal lives."
Not uncomfortably or distorted would seem to be rational.
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The people who "opened the floodgates" were perceived by the OP to give too much information, but candidness is required for sexual discussion if one wants to learn. What is taboo to one is not taboo to another, especially when another has more sexual experience. Inevitably, sex is connected to one's personal life.
This is what threw me about the "rational" part.
I admire the post WWII scientist, Alfred Kinsey, who surveyed hundreds of men and women for his own clinical research about human sexual behavior. He had to be open to all attitudes about sex in order to learn about it. This taboo subject (for 1948) had never been explored in American science, and in that conservative era, it caused enormous outrage and controversy, but it revolutionized the knowledge of human sexuality as we know it today.