| | I got this from that asiansexgazette.com site
Made me cringe. 
Needless to say, I generally don't have that much respect for Japanese
guys - to me most of them come off as soft nancy-boys. Even the ones
I've met face-to-face. It's a nation of men who've lost their
confidence.
http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/japan/japan05news95.htm
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Japan's concept of free love lost in translation
By Ryann Connell
October 15, 2006
One of the more preferred adoptions of Western culture among
Japanese men, Weekly Playboy opines, has been sexual liberation, which
the men's weekly notes started flourishing around 1966, the year it
began publishing.
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Nonetheless, in an article marking its 40th anniversary, it seems
Japanese guys' ideas of "Free sex" may have been a little, well, lost
in translation as a look at the Foreign Ministry's advisory on Sweden
shows.
"There may have been travelers prompted by the misunderstanding
that it was a country that advocates 'free sex,' but sexual attitudes
in Sweden emphasize fundamental gender equality, and basic
wholesomeness and what may be termed the 'sex business' is virtually
unseen in Sweden," the magazine quotes the government's website as
saying.
"Free Sex" is, according to Weekly Playboy, the idea that people
can partake in sexual liaisons outside of a marital relationship
provided there is no love involved, a state the magazine argues already
exists in Japan.
Over the past four decades, Japan has witnessed the destruction of
sexual taboos and a libertine attitude to the pleasures of the flesh
that has led to the flourishing or such practices as enjo kosai, the
euphemism to describe mostly schoolgirl prostitution but which
literally translates as "compensated dating."
More recently, though, Japan has also been swept up in the
whirlwind of a "pure," or true love boom, the weekly says, adding that
it's probably the result of more guys obeying whatever women tell them to do.
"Recently, there have been more guys who make masochistic statements. Actions that would once have been regarded as girly are common and men find life easier if they do what women want,"
columnist Asato Izumi tells Weekly Playboy. "We're living in an age
where it's better off for men if they choose to live like masochists."
The weakening of Japanese males has been accompanied by women
becoming increasingly assertive to create something of a
balance."Nowadays, it's impossible to get married unless you're rich. A
guy with no money has no hope of marrying. Look at marriage statistics
by income and what I'm saying becomes crystal clear. We have a reality
where a part-time worker making 1 million yen a year simply can't
afford to get married," economic journalist Takuro Morinaga tells
Weekly Playboy. "The upshot of all this is that there's been a dramatic
increase in the number of people who've simply given up on women, which
is mainly the result of the huge increase in otaku-type nerds." | |
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