How Japan Changed My Outlook on Sex and Love/ Article
Rae Chuck
Japan is NOT sexless. It’s different though, and for better or worse, I have changed because of it.
The Japanese have long been tagged with the strangest of reputations, stretching from both extremes of tentacle porn to a sexless conservatism like no other culture has seen. Every other article I read on the subject deals with one or the other, looking at Japanese love from just a single perspective and often focusing on the symptoms, not the root. So much so that, in a 2017 article in The Japan Times, Kaori Shoji tried to plea for a deeper analysis of “Japanese love”, explaining that Japanese society prioritises ceremony or face value modern traditions, rather than ‘Eros’, or romantic love. She sums this up by saying:
“…deep in the core of this stubborn patriarchal society is the belief that love and all its trimmings will lead to great stress and hassle, and thus we should cease such nonsense immediately.”
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Posted Jul 23, 2024
Commissioned article for Redacted by Restless Magazine
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