Why Does Japan Have So Much Porn? (2/2)
April 7, 2008 – 7:43 pmSingle girls in Japan try to have sex too much.
Have you seen Babel, the spiritual sequel to 21 Grams starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett? You know the deaf-mute Japanese girl whose sexual advances get rejected by the men she approaches? Well, she’s not a completely fictionalized character. A number of Japanese girls crave intimacy. They don’t get enough of it at home because their parents are trained to suppress emotions. They don’t get enough of it from the boys at school because the boys are either too stupid or too busy. You might think they would experience intimacy from their girlfriends, but if you think America has issues with cliques, then you don’t even want to imagine the uchi-to-soto (in-group/out-group) cultural phenomenon in Japan, especially among junior high and high school girls.
Sometimes, the only people they get intimacy from are the men and boys who use them for sex. Arcade toilet stalls, sticky photo booths, love hotels, and parks are not uncommon settings for intercourse. This sometimes leads to early careers as porn actresses (although you can hardly call what they do “acting”). It’s a chance to earn some extra cash, and men are finally pay attention to them, so why not?
Japanese men are too creative for their own (women’s) good.
The Japanese are world-renowned for their gadgets. I do not need to explain this. I went to a sex shop once in the Shibuya district of Tokyo to look for a present for a female friend (you don’t have to believe that last part if you don’t want to, but it’s true). Shibuya is like Japan’s Las Vegas Strip. It was an interesting experience. Boys and their toys have always had a special relationship. When the boys grow into men, they have got to put their toys to practical use, right?
Like their ancestors, modern Japanese women are maltreated.
OLs (office ladies) are commonly expected to perform menial tasks such as pouring tea/coffee and cleaning up after their male co-workers. Even getting promoted is harder. This happens at all sorts of workplaces, including schools. If there’s more than one female employee for a task that only requires one set of hands, then the youngest takes it. This corporate inequality has led to educated Japanese women seeking work abroad. The lucky ones land careers with foreign companies. Others land on computer screens in foreign nations.
Bottom line
Like all business products, Japanese porn, whether live action or animated, exists in such abundance because there is such a demand for it.
