on a more serious note, though, you do have a point. japan has some seriously fucked-up sex culture. we've been talking a lot about comfort women in one of my classes, and just. ugh. one of the less brutal/descriptive authors had an interesting point, though: that all the incredible violence and cruelty that the japanese soldiers commited (through things like young soldiers in training looking on and learning) colored the course of japanese sex for the next seven decades. any thoughts?
The thing is, except for some basic assumptions on the rights of women (They have none), the assumption of the Japanese male is that Sex is ok. They have fewer taboos about it than America. They do it less, although I am not certain if that is a response to a busy, status concious lifestyle, or a response to the non-chalant nature of their ideas of sex.
Sex doesn't bother Japanese, it seems. Equality and Empowerment of women terrifies them. It terrier-fies me, as well. I start acting like a puppy.
I guess I don't see the Japanese as anymore violent with respect to war than any other culture. I do feel that the Japanese never romanticized the Beautiful empowered lover-benefactor (Poe's Legeia is an example)
Because of this, both genders are struggling with a tradition of status- and material-conscious behavior with women's empowerment. Women demand men be status-conscious and men have difficulty
Not saying anything profound, but it's my humble opinion (with a pun).
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on a more serious note, though, you do have a point. japan has some seriously fucked-up sex culture. we've been talking a lot about comfort women in one of my classes, and just. ugh. one of the less brutal/descriptive authors had an interesting point, though: that all the incredible violence and cruelty that the japanese soldiers commited (through things like young soldiers in training looking on and learning) colored the course of japanese sex for the next seven decades.
any thoughts?
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Sex doesn't bother Japanese, it seems. Equality and Empowerment of women terrifies them. It terrier-fies me, as well. I start acting like a puppy.
I guess I don't see the Japanese as anymore violent with respect to war than any other culture. I do feel that the Japanese never romanticized the Beautiful empowered lover-benefactor (Poe's Legeia is an example)
Because of this, both genders are struggling with a tradition of status- and material-conscious behavior with women's empowerment. Women demand men be status-conscious and men have difficulty
Not saying anything profound, but it's my humble opinion (with a pun).
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