In Japan the issue isn’t often clearly stated but it’s essential, always wear clean socks. You will often be expected to remove shoes at religious/cultural sites and going barefoot is a no-no. Also some nice-ish restaurants. That’s my experience but due to the nature of the article I though maybe other travelers could…

Rick Steves has a genius solution for this. I followed his advice and it does work. Carry a set a “church” clothes with you. For me it was a big baggy t-shirt dress that went on over whatever I was wearing. For my partner it was baggy pants that could be pulled on over his shorts.

I have seen similar dress codes in Italy as well, where you need to cover your bare shoulders if you want to enter the cathedrals and shorts should not be too short. For me sticking to those requirements is a part of showing respect for the culture in the country you are visiting. If you know beforehand what you want…

Trying to talk your way past a dress code is extremely disrespectful as well. Most dress codes are for extremely important reasons, usually cultural or safety-based. They would not turn away tourist money for something as simple as clothing unless it was very important to them. Trying to persuade them otherwise just…

Well, you are doing those things all sorts of wrong. My second child was the product of a glorious 10 minutes with a ham and Swiss on sourdough.

Um, Mr. Robertson....

You heard it post-menopausal women and couples who can’t conceive. No sexy times for you, because if you aren’t making the babies, aint no reason why you need to be doing those things. Stop with the unnatural stuff, pronto.

Human activities which are natural, yet do not result in conception:

Show me one instance where a person can be sitting in their living room looking at a box and see a person who is in an entirely different room hundreds or thousands of miles away. It is unnatural. I’m sorry.

Oral sex is sodomy. I mean, the word "sodomy" includes oral sex but has come to be used to describe anal sex only. But, technically, people who rail against sodomy are including oral sex in their rage.

If he were an asshole, he’d be having gay sex all the time.

I hear if you place your hands on each other’s genitals and think really hard, you’ll both get pregnant. Everything else is unnatural.

Things less “natural” (i.e., less frequent in the wild) than homosexuality:

You know what doesn’t EVER make babies?

Pat Robertson was actually conceived through subway frottage. That’s why his name is Pat.

Show me one couple who has conceived a child through oral sex, or sex after a vasectomy, or hysterectomy, or infertile couples, or sex after menopause. Are they “unnatural” as well, Pat?

Poor dude has never had a blow job and, once his wife went through menopause, he’s been celibate. That’s what he’s getting at, right?