Wanted: Tortured old male virgins with a creative mind!
Once shunned for being dweebish or simply grotesque, older male virgins are being sought out in Japan in the belief that they’re more creative than their sexually experienced peers, according to Shukan Asahi (10/13).
TV shows like “Densha Otoko” and “Kekkon Dekinai Otoko” have become huge hits by celebrating stories about men who are hopeless around women.
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” has just hit Japanese movie theaters, but has already proved successful enough to inspire the creation of a Virgin Film Festival featuring flicks all about men’s struggles with lifelong enforced chastity.
Eccentric author Jun Miura, who penned “D.T.” — a work about the power of the dotei, the Japanese words for male virgins — has long urged that even non-virgins never forget what it was like before the first time.
“Guys tortured by their virginity are far more creative than others,” Miura tells Shukan Asahi, arguing that the constant pondering over what sex is really like trains the mind to dream, while unfulfilled desires breeds imagination and creativity.
Manga artist Dragon Odawara, who has made a career out of depicting dotei, agrees.
“Virginity is this huge burden. Guys who aren’t popular with girls want to relieve themselves of this burden some day, but the reality is that they have this bind in that the burden is not that easy to relieve. But, carrying around this heavy burden for so long also builds up the body and some people find that it’s better not to relieve themselves of their load after all,” he tells Shukan Asahi.
Goro Yamada, a comedian who appeared at a pre-screening talk show with writer Miura at the Virgin Film Festival, is another advocate of keep flies done up.
“All the tough guys from my class at school who used to go around bragging about how much sex they had are now (in middle-age) the most boring people I’ve ever met,” he says.
Manga artist Odawara says society has an interest in making sure that more men choose to remain virgins for longer.
“Now, it’s so easy to get your hands on uncensored porn off the Net. You can get anything,” he tells Shukan Asahi. “I’m afraid that the power to imagine these sorts of things will disappear and be replaced by such things as ‘old man bashing.’ There may be growing numbers of kids who have no respect for adults.”
Miura says being a virgin can make people more appreciative of life’s finer parts.
“Is having sex all the time really that much fun?” he asks. (By Ryann Connell)
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