So you're saying that everything that represents the immoral according to traditional values, sex, drugs, etc., are all much more prevalent in Japan. Is that right?

It's a completely different society, period.

There is no arguing with that proposition.

I just think the idea that things that we consider immoral here are more prevalent there is completely baseless. More than that, it's fictional, and original at that, because I have never heard anyone say anything like that before. If anything, honor and tradition are probably exponentially stronger there than they are here.

FYI, a google search turned this up, which I found interesting.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/data...-use-map-world

Japanese VR porn....it's all fun and games until the machine starts putting eels up your anus.....

It's certainly a contributing factor from where we were.

Exactly. So many people get caught up in the dogma at the height of there resolve against this moral code neglecting the fact that it was bore out of developing civilizations evolution.

It's more than sad.

Of course the struggle of experience serves one better, but one can achieve this without off-spring. It's just a different way of going about things. Of course I see the value in teaching and raising children. To share in their failures and successes. Nature desires this IMO and my post's existence proves your point in terms of the experience's value.
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Japan is a very sexually repressed culture and has been for quite a while. This has filtered down to the younger generation as non-interest in sex.

There are many reasons that Japan is in the situation they are in, not coming from a Judeo Christian background is not one of them (nor is their version of Buddhism responsible either).

Their corporate culture, gender roles in society (for career women getting pregnant is a career ender there, and marriage puts you at risk for pregnancy so career minded women have an aversion to sex and marriage), and their sexual repression in their public facing lives are all much more responsible.

LMAO

FYP

Yeah but even a lot of Christians blow their religion off when it comes to getting off. I live in a big time Christian state and city, and you'd be hard pressed to find a chick that truly believes and follows "marriage before sex".

This is pretty spot-on. Just like the rest of the world has a skewed perception of the US (and who can blame them when they're seeing things like "16 and Pregnant", "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" and "Jersey Shore"), we're getting a doctored-up account of Japan and their culture, which although very different from ours, isn't as freakish as we're often led to believe.

I don't know enough about the issue of sex in Japan to comment definitively, but a simple search turned up a different Slate article that makes a reasonably well-stated case against the idea. It will be interesting to see how Japan changes demographically over the next few decades and what affect that may have on their global influences (as was mentioned by someone else earlier in the thread).

95% of Japanese people have the same reaction to this kind of stuff that we do... "WTF?" The more mundane, ordinary aspects of Japanese culture never make it over here to us for the exact reason that it isn't strange or perverse.

I wonder if people in other countries are reading brony articles and pontificating about it on internet forums, trying to come up with all of the sociological and cultural reasons for why Americans want to **** rainbow colored ponies.

Call me when they invent humanoid cylons.

i think im turning japanese
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i really think so