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Spider Jerusalem

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

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 05:29 PM

Nov 2013

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).

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If porn causes rape, does that mean Japan is awash in rapists? [View all] Archae Nov 2013 OP

Posting, so I won't be called to any juries. Seriously. Can we stick rape porn back to the msanthrope Nov 2013 #1

I think they should petition Skinner to start a porn group & talk about it to their heart's content Tuesday Afternoon Nov 2013 #13

Tentacle stuff? Fumesucker Nov 2013 #2

here you go arely staircase Nov 2013 #4

To each their own... Agschmid Nov 2013 #16

allways been my philosophy nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #19

because you know without asking that it's one of those things where, the first time you see it Volaris Nov 2013 #10

You will regret asking about it. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #14

Makes Hajime Sorayama look positively staid Fumesucker Nov 2013 #15

IMO not porn in general, but rape porn yes. Rex Nov 2013 #3

consider this mercuryblues Nov 2013 #5

And "train groping" porn KitSileya Nov 2013 #6

. gollygee Nov 2013 #7

Oh right, you. I remember that 'manga rape porn is so awesome' thread you posted in the Lounge. Electric Monk Nov 2013 #8

That must have been while I was taking a short break from computers. In_The_Wind Nov 2013 #17

Japan is awash in creepy sexual repression and misogyny. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #9

The subway groping porn is not terribly removed from reality there. geek tragedy Nov 2013 #11

Perhaps that explains their fascination with Bukkake videos? K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #12

Conversely, all porn is banned in Saudi Arabia LadyHawkAZ Nov 2013 #18