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The awful truth behind Japan's latest adult entertainme... - 6/18/2008 1:22:50 AM
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aslouie
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815509,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-world
*sigh* I apologize for the gross nature behind this TIME Magazine/CNN article (I had even debated about this), but as a sort of tangent from my prior Japan-in-the-news thread, I think this might shed light on the psychological/sociological/spiritual state of Japan...
*i.e, Japan is so overworked of a country that it's a sexless, not-too intimate nation, void of real human connection, much less a healthy sex life--much to the contrary of popular perceptions of Japanese "erotic" culture. Tragic really...  
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RE: The awful truth behind Japan's latest adult enterta... - 6/18/2008 3:16:56 AM
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tacitus
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Well, I'm sorry to say that if this sort of thing surprises you then you have led a very sheltered life indeed. Pornographers the world over, and probably no more so than in the USA, have filled every niche imaginable and many that you and I probably can't imagine and wouldn't want to.
(BTW: Making the venerable Einstein share space with that unmentionable woman below your posts is quite unforgivable!)
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RE: The awful truth behind Japan's latest adult enterta... - 6/18/2008 9:49:11 AM
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Ugh.
I agree with tacitus.
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RE: The awful truth behind Japan's latest adult enterta... - 6/19/2008 1:11:55 AM
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aslouie
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Actually, I made this post to perhaps give some demystifying insight on why in general, pornography is so prevalent in Japanese, if not general Asian culture: hint, it's more to do with a different kind of repression, than say sexual liberation--at least by Western concepts.
When I read about how Japanese salarymen are so workaholic, I can't help but feel for the countless white collar workers there who have to consult the sex industry, as a way of substituting their emptiness that otherwise could be fulfilled by family back at home--but because of certain societal attitudes on the traditional Eastern work ethic (Confucian? Buddhist? Shinto?), I don't know if there's plenty of Japanese working fathers were able to spend ample time with their wives and kids, sort of like the traditional sense of being a family provider of everything but intimacy.
And by the way: I was raised in a traditional Chinese home, where the socio-cultural dynamics is not that far off from the Japanese kind aforementioned here. As for the Einstein/Hilton quote, it's in context to the whole lunacy of being famous (for being famous), in a Walter Benjamin kind of way, and how that sort of dumbs down people in the process (i.e. Sharon Stone's take on karma). No disrespect tacitus... 
< Message edited by aslouie -- 6/19/2008 1:21:18 AM >
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