If porn causes rape, does that mean Japan is awash in rapists?

[Archae]

Most porn in Japan, (at least most that I've run into over the years,) is obsessed with raping/dominating the woman.

The "train groping" genre is notrious for this.

And there is all the tentacle stuff...

[msanthrope]

1. Posting, so I won't be called to any juries. Seriously. Can we stick rape porn back to the

subforum from whence it came?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. I think they should petition Skinner to start a porn group & talk about it to their heart's content

and now I am off any juries, too. Toodles.

[Fumesucker]

2. Tentacle stuff?

Why do I have a suspicion I'll regret asking about this?

[arely staircase]

4. here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica

[Agschmid]

16. To each their own...

[arely staircase]

19. allways been my philosophy nt

[Volaris]

10. because you know without asking that it's one of those things where, the first time you see it

it's horrifying, and then later when you see it again, you just say "meh.."?

[NuclearDem]

14. You will regret asking about it.

[Fumesucker]

15. Makes Hajime Sorayama look positively staid

That Hokusai print is definitely out there, I'd never seen that before.

[Rex]

3. IMO not porn in general, but rape porn yes.

nt.

[mercuryblues]

5. consider this

japan has a very narrow definition of rape. Forced or threat of force and only vaginal penetration with a penis. All other penetration is sexual assault.

It is estimated that less than 10% of rapes are reported and about 14% of sexual assaults. Then there is the prosecution rate

Even if a victim does want to persevere with her case, there are still barriers which can stop her getting to court, and indeed in 2005 just 65.8% of reported rapes and 58.2% of indecent assault cases were prosecuted (Ministry of Justice (a)). One such barrier is Article 248 of the Code of Criminal Procedures (Appendix 3), which gives the prosecutor the right to judge a prosecution unnecessary, based on the character of the offender and the circumstances of the offence, even if there is enough evidence to convict. In other words, even when the authorities are confident that a defendant is guilty, they may, for a number of reasons outlined below, chose to suspend the case and not take it to court. In 2005, more than twice as many rape (6.8%) and indecent assault (6.6%) prosecutions were suspended as robbery prosecutions (3.0%)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/reinvention/issues/volume1issue1/gray/

[KitSileya]

6. And "train groping" porn

is a huge problem, because riding the train in Japan is not safe for women. Young girls in Japan are molested practically as a matter of course in them. They have had to create women-only train carriages to make it safer for women.

Guys can buy soiled panties that purport to come from young girls in vending machines. Women are less and less inclined to marry these defect boys who have pretend girlfriends on their nintendo and buy body pillows with scantily clad young anime girls pictured on them. And I say boys on purpose - these men are increasingly incapable of having a mature or even real relationships because of the porn they are consuming. Watch the BBC documentary "No sex please, we're Japanese" to see what it is doing to Japanese society. Men and women are having so little actual sex that it is impacting birth rates, and Japan is projected to decrease its population by one third in the next 50 years.

And as mercuryblues posted upthread, the statistics on rape is heavily suspect. This is a society that only legalized the Pill in 1999, after 40 years, but it took them six month to approve Viagra.

[gollygee]

7. .

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rape-debate-in-japan/

[Electric Monk]

8. Oh right, you. I remember that 'manga rape porn is so awesome' thread you posted in the Lounge.

It got rightfully hidden.

[In_The_Wind]

17. That must have been while I was taking a short break from computers.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Japan is awash in creepy sexual repression and misogyny.

One of the reasons for the declining birthrate and marriage rate in Japan? The cultural assumption that when a woman gets married or has a kid she no longer has a career and her place is in the home. The younger generation of Japanese women are not too keen on that (and one can't really blame them).

[geek tragedy]

11. The subway groping porn is not terribly removed from reality there.

[K.O. Stradivarius]

12. Perhaps that explains their fascination with Bukkake videos?

[LadyHawkAZ]

18. Conversely, all porn is banned in Saudi Arabia

For that matter, so is prostitution and public bikini-wearing. So there must be no rape at all in Saudi Arabia, that paradise of respect for women. I wonder if a simple Google search would support that theory, or if there might be other factors at play.

Someone wake me when DU Porn Month is over, please.