Are The Japanese Perverted?

No, they're smart; much smarter than the asshole OP who just wants to get the racists started.

repressed cultures tend to be more perverted than not. . .

the definition of erotic shifts wildly as well.

Japan is not repressed or most Western European countries are compared to Americans. They wanted to cover the statue of David’s junk when it was on tour in the USA!

Japan pixelates genitalia in porn, r3.

You really can't say they're not repressed.

If this is doable, you can count on the fact that the Repugnicunts in the US will be pursuing this legislation about 5 minutes after the coming Congressional midterms end this Fall. Count on it.

^There will also be serious legislation proposed to wipe all this filthy pornography right off of the internet. Just wait and see. - R5

Their society is largely peaceful and crime-free. Their kids aren't tattooed, pierced nonbinary pot smokers and they obey their elders! Of course they're repressed perverts!

The Japanese just do things differently. They look at the situation or the problem and work out a solution. They do it their way.

Yes, I am a woman and I lived in Japan for several years. In public restrooms, even in schools, there are signs posted that say "beware of perverts" because the problem of peeping toms/sexual assault is so endemic. I caught pervs myself. Here's a poster from the Kyoto subway that says "We won't tolerate perverts!."

I think cellphones must have this feature in South Korea too for the same reason.

The Japanese are a tightly cohesive, homogeneous, tribal culture. They consider themselves to all be cousins, essentially, and genetically speaking, this is pretty much bound to be factually correct.

Americans are in no position to call anyone perverted.

It makes perfect sense to me...it should be a law in the US, also

About a decade ago, when all the scandals began to emerge in the US about the surprising sexual behavior of most of the Japanese Zen Buddhist priests who had relocated to the US, I had an American friend who had been sent by one of these priests to train at a Zen temple in Japan for a couple of years. While there, my friend had left the monastery, and had married a Japanese woman in Tokyo. They subsequently returned to the US. The scandals re the priests heavily involved my friend's former teacher, Shimano Eido in New York, and I was talking to him about the news. (The issue was that all of these male teachers had been pushing their female students to have sex with them, for decades). My buddy said, "The thing you have to understand about Japan and Japanese men, is that over there, there is a cultural assumption that if a man and a woman are left alone together in any room, they are going to have sex. That's just the way the Japanese see things. It's as if the man has the right to do whatever he wants in that situation." His wife nodded her head in agreement.

How depressing R14

There are vending machines in public places in Japan that dispense worn schoolgirl panties.

No, I’m not making this up.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've read that there's a trend towards young Japanese choosing to remain celibate. I assume they're overwhelmingly female. On top of couples having fewer or no children, there's concern about a very low birthrate and population decline. I wonder if it's a reaction to "perversion" and/or if women just don't want to consign themselves to a life as a handmaiden.

Embarrassing story. I once got an iPhone from eBay which turned out to be one of the Japanese ones you can’t turn off the camera click noises. I’d been out to lunch with a friend, was in a shopping centre and needed to pee. While I’m at the urinals I saw a poster advertising some very random, specific thing my friend and I had been talking about (can’t remember what). How’s that for coincidence, I thought. Without thinking I took out my camera and took a picture of it to send her. Alas, I forgot about the very LOUD camera shutter noise (the toilet was so quiet the sound almost seemed to echo!). There was a guy standing at the next urinal who clearly thought I’d just taken a photo of his junk. It was a supremely awkward moment. I could have started explaining that I was just taking a photo of this poster, but that would probably have made it even more awkward. He got out of there very fast and I felt like some weird pervert.

Back in my university days, there were a lot of Asian students at my college and living in my dorm block (but not taking my program, Theatre).

At one drink gathering I went to, there was this absolutely wasted Japanese STEM student, who when I walked in was ranting in broken English about how in his view white women were mostly all too loud and whorish for his taste, and that even the virginal ones were too hairy and stunk like sour milk. Then he started in on black girls, with fairly bestial implications. We all just laughed it off at the time, like drunk kids do, but in retrospect it was a disturbing and disgusting tirade. I never saw the guy on campus again, hopefully he dropped out and went back to his beloved Pure homeland of silent scentless smooth pussy.

A few years ago, I remember reading a story about a cab driver in Japan who gave his female passengers a powerful diuretic (I assume laced in a drink; I can't remember that detail) because he had a fetish for seeing women wet themselves.

r17 NEETs. "not in education, employment, or training" -- many feel they are unable to compete with the pressures of excellence and become shut-ins.

excellence in all things - from marriage to job. . . and everything on a tight timeline. So any delays or subpar performances tended to leave people just dropping out of life. There's no space to not be a "winner" despite not everyone can be.

of course, life is very different from the cities to the country side. . .

and to many it contrasts oddly with Japan's international entertainment sector. . . that seems more gonzo, open than the rest of the world.

Likewise... the infamous suicide forest is also frequently associated with the pressures of excellence and perfection.

for a while there many skyscrapers had to have "catch nets" installed to prevent people jumping off of buildings.

gays being the more melodramatic typically chose seppuku, tho, suicide by sword, disemboweling.

while lesbians sided with suicide pacts and grilling inside their suvs.

On a side a note, male Navy members often complain of being accosted on trains. . . usually when coming back drunk after visiting soaplands.

though things are progressing as they must, too.

Requiring the camera to click is a very good thing imo. You deserve to know if someone's taking your photograph. You should "own" your image and not have it used without your knowledge (and preferably consent but hearing the clicking just alerts you that it's happened - but it's better than nothing)

Thank you, r21. What a sad state in a culture advanced in so many ways that a a substantial number are "cannibalized," if you will, by such unrelenting social mores and expectations. I didn't relate the high suicide rates to the celibacy phenomenon, but it's all intertwined.

If this phenomenon continues what kind of an impact will it have on the Japanese economy (if it hasn't already). How are they going to have enough workers? Will the culture be open to immigration to fill the gap? A guest worker program? It's hard to see such a homogeneous culture dealing well with either.

New York City was a hip place for Japanese people to be in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I lived there, esp in the Lower East Side, and I got to know quite a few Japanese women who had been living there for years at a stretch. I had the idea that they all found being single women to be so constricting in Japan that they couldn't stand it.

R12 Actually it's because we are Americans that we are in a position that we can, will and must call people whatever the fuck we want. That will never ever change. It's who we are.

[quote] a cab driver in Japan who gave his female passengers a powerful diuretic (I assume laced in a drink; I can't remember that detail) because he had a fetish for seeing women wet themselves.

No woman anywhere on Earth would accept a drink from a strange taxi driver, unless she was already dying of dehydration or absolutely paralytic.

[quote]I didn't relate the high suicide rates to the celibacy phenomenon, but it's all intertwined.

There’s no real correlation between celibacy and suicide. Sex is an addiction for most anyway.

No but you sure sound like a racist moron.

OP check out Ryu Murakami's books and the film adaptations of them for more on the topic.

Both TOPAZ and LOVE & POP are very bleak, and even the few hopeful or humorous moments therein are bittersweet.

You guys know nothing about Japan.

They have tentacle porn. Blech. . .

r29 he gave them laced crackers, apparently

No

I wish that was the law of the land in the US!

Japanese are the superior race.

[quote] If this phenomenon continues what kind of an impact will it have on the Japanese economy (if it hasn't already). How are they going to have enough workers? Will the culture be open to immigration to fill the gap? A guest worker program? It's hard to see such a homogeneous culture dealing well with either.

For the last 40 years, the government has tried to cajole women into having more children. Japan's political establishment would rather the economy wither and die than to open to immigration, and the people largely agree. Japan does have a guest worker program that's used by Brazilian Japanese, but immigrants, even of Japanese descent, face massive discrimination.

Yes, OP. They are. In so many ways, thanks to their oppressive culture.

r35 is one of those stories that, even if I didn't know it happened in Japan, I would figure, "This happened in Japan."