And generally the whole ceremony had a deeply sexually repressed air (thank god groom is there to “protect” bride etc). Sex as predation, only to be “given away” by the bride when married etc. And then when the (highly sexual early 2000s pop and RNB) music came on, everyone started twerking!

Americans - at least a certain sub set of us - are deeply fucking repressed and need hard legal assurances no one will find out they *have* sexuality at all, and there are private clubs where the most vanilla sex happens between consenting adults but security is like fucking Fort Knox.