Jerome Corsi Says ‘Sex Is Not About Fun’

[Art_from_Ark]

72. To paraphrase Winston Churchill:

Attitudes towards sex in Japan are an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped inside a mystery.

On the one hand, there are quite a few video stores that carry hundreds, if not thousands, of adult-oriented DVDs, but nearly all of them are censored, with strategic body parts covered up or blurred with "mosaics". Comic books that aren't expressly oriented towards younger kids often contain sexual scenes and themes, and there are plenty of girlie magazines on the racks of convenience stores.

However, Japanese TV has become quite tame in the past 30 years. Up until about 1999 or so, some late night TV programs would show women stripping everything off (with the pelvic area blurred out), or maybe women rubbing their naked breasts and saying, "Ummm, that feels so good". And sometimes American R movies would be shown on daytime TV uncensored except for the occasional blurring of an exposed pelvic area. But it seems that has all been replaced by one boring talk show after another.

Then there are the regular motels. If you get a room for a married couple at a "legitimate" motel, chances are you'll get two small, separate beds. When the local university unveiled its new housing complex for married students, it was met by complaints of bedrooms that seemed to have been modeled after some old '50s movie-- two small beds, and a nightstand in the middle.

And it wasn't too long ago that the only legally available birth control in Japan was the condom. For a long time, the Japanese government refused to allow legal access to The Pill on the grounds that it would "encourage promiscuity among young women". Today, 14 years after The Pill was finally legalized, it still does not seem to be too popular outside of the sex industry, because of concerns about possible adverse effects down the road, and because of fears among women that their doctor/druggist, etc., might think of them as promiscuous if they get a prescription.