Is Public Kissing Acceptable?

FRANCISTOWN: Recently while taking an idle stroll around the taxi rank after work, I came across a young couple kissing in public.

The kissing was so deep, passionate and prolonged that they seemed not to notice the frowning stares of the people around them. So, after scrutinising the two, a question cropped up in my mind: Is kissing in public okay or not?

While Batswana consider the act a foreign thing, there are no written rules governing consensual kissing in public.It only depends on individual and societal views. At times kissing in public may be considered to be an indecent act, which makes bystanders, especially the elders, uncomfortable.

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