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[–]TheOtherSide 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's a weird thing to say.

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This is from late last century, Trigger Alert, Schoolgirl prostitution in Japan.

Japanese sociologists say teen prostitution is tolerated in part because prostitution doesn't have the stigma here that it has in some other cultures. Japanese culture doesn't impart on sex the sense of sin that Western religions tend to. Even incest isn't a crime in Japan except in the case of rape.

An archived WSJ story, paywall bypassed https://outline.com/sxkrCn

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB844189550290273000

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yet the reality is most Japanese men aren't getting laid. The population is decreasing. And it's partly this kind of thing which is a big turn off. No women wants to nurse an insecure man who has to target children because his fear of relationships is so great.

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Yes I have read about that transition. I wonder what happened to them? Certainly some, the criminal element, have balls still but the rest?

Do you have first hand knowledge of this 199? I found an article on it that puts forward some reasoning on the issue but it's always good to hear on-the-ground observations. Some years back I shared house with a guy who had lived there for 10 years after marrying a japanese woman. At the time I didn't think to probe him on the matter but I find it fascinating now. I wonder if it was externally imposed social engineering so to speak, or just a confluence of negative events as this article puts forth?

http://legendsofmen.com/2019/06/is-east-asian-masculinity-dead-as-goes-japan-so-goes-the-west/