2013-10-27, 06:58 AM
[COLOR="#cc8899"]Japan's a pretty weird place as far as sex is concerned. In 90% of public places in Japan people are modest, reserved, polite, respectful, etc. Then you turn a corner and end up on a street lined with "soapy" massage parlors (a wet, soapy naked woman rubs her body all over you). Or you walk into a maid cafe, or DVD store...and all modesty goes out the window. DVD stores typically have no formal division between the porn section (and there's some pretty out there pomegranate) and mainstream DVDs, adult men openly leer at, attempt to pinch, etc the waitresses in maid cafes...
Basically, my experience with Japan is that the part that would bother most Japanese people or appear strange to them isn't necessarily the perversion or "deviant" behavior, but the openness about it. For the digital girlfriend example, a lot of them openly take the "girl" on dates in public places. It's a culture with one of the most bizarre combinations of modesty and perversion, a heavy emphasis on responsibility and respect (a lot of which ties into having a successful and influential career).
There's so much stress on career and establishing oneself, long work hours and work weeks (not as extensive as here in Korea, but 6 day work weeks at 10 hours a day seemed pretty common) that it's easy to see "normal" relationship/sex drives falling by the wayside or becoming confused or muddled. Compound that by a strong sense of modesty that could also skew reporting and it's pretty easy to come to the conclusion that Japanese people have less sex than the rest of the world, or at least Westerners. Again, this is my personal experience with Japan, specifically the Tokyo Bay area (Yokosuka, Yokohama, Tokyo) which is comparatively westernized and modern.[/COLOR]
Basically, my experience with Japan is that the part that would bother most Japanese people or appear strange to them isn't necessarily the perversion or "deviant" behavior, but the openness about it. For the digital girlfriend example, a lot of them openly take the "girl" on dates in public places. It's a culture with one of the most bizarre combinations of modesty and perversion, a heavy emphasis on responsibility and respect (a lot of which ties into having a successful and influential career).
There's so much stress on career and establishing oneself, long work hours and work weeks (not as extensive as here in Korea, but 6 day work weeks at 10 hours a day seemed pretty common) that it's easy to see "normal" relationship/sex drives falling by the wayside or becoming confused or muddled. Compound that by a strong sense of modesty that could also skew reporting and it's pretty easy to come to the conclusion that Japanese people have less sex than the rest of the world, or at least Westerners. Again, this is my personal experience with Japan, specifically the Tokyo Bay area (Yokosuka, Yokohama, Tokyo) which is comparatively westernized and modern.[/COLOR]