| In Japan acts that the law and society don't | | | | someone else is having a good time.).At root |
| allow in fact, such as sadomasochism, is | | | | it is considered a practical way to keep |
| allowed in fantasy. Japanese customers can | | | | men's minds on their duty to support their |
| pay to sexually `harass' prostitutes dressed | | | | wives and children. Sexual acts and desires |
| as secretaries.If they've got the yen they | | | | outside marriage are not evil or dirty, as we |
| can be whipped or whip, shackled or shackle, | | | | think of them, but they threaten the family |
| etc. Japanese comics and cartoons are | | | | and therefore society.I believe Asian |
| notorious for their kinky sex.Fantasy is | | | | authoritarian governments from Singapore to |
| | | | Beijing look upon the control of sex in |
| accepted as fantasy and a psychological | | | | practical, not moral terms as religious |
| relief, not as the moral and legal equivalent | | | | fundamentalists in the US do.This raises an |
| of the real thing, as in our culture, where | | | | interesting speculation. Perhaps Japan is the |
| the do-gooders want people thrown in jail | | | | most `liberal' country in Asia in this regard |
| just for having illegal desires.Where the | | | | because it's also the most prosperous, even |
| feminist slogan is "Pornography is the | | | | during the recession, and so men can support |
| theory, rape the practice." If that were true | | | | their families and still afford to have |
| Japan would be the most sexually violent | | | | girlfriends, boyfriends, etc.Sexual |
| country in the world instead of the safest.If | | | | expression may become officially freer in |
| the Western ideologies of Christianity and | | | | other countries as their economies improve |
| Freud haven't affected Japan much (Although | | | | and more Asian men can therefore afford to |
| it should be noted that Japan is far less | | | | both support their families and indulge their |
| permissive now than in the past, thanks to | | | | outside desires.Certainly it's no secret that |
| pressure from us oh so enlightened Westerners | | | | businessmen from other Asian countries are |
| who think we know better than them.), another | | | | more active as sex tourists in Thailand and |
| imported sexually repressive ideology has | | | | The Philippines than Americans and Europeans |
| warped China and Indochina Marxism.I have no | | | | except to the Western media and Western |
| direct experience on this, but reports from | | | | do-gooder fascists.Let me summarize. Asians |
| those countries do indicate that their sex | | | | do not believe that something so natural as |
| industries | | | | sex is in and of itself `sinful.' Sin is a |
| | | | foreign concept to them.Sex is recognized as |
| are being resurrected along with the opening | | | | natural and highly important, and |
| up of their economies to capitalism.However, | | | | |
| the governments are still strongly | | | | therefore sexual behavior must be controlled |
| authoritarian and sex for pay is | | | | for the sake of social cohesion, to keep on |
| semiunderground and still subject to periodic | | | | producing rice and babies. It doesn't really |
| repression.Also, it should be noted that most | | | | matter who you have sex with or how, as long |
| other Asian countries do repress pornography | | | | as the social order is maintained.This does |
| and many alternative sexualities.Some of this | | | | amount to sexual repression for women, it |
| is due to another Western ideology, Islam. | | | | must be admitted. `Good' girls don't have sex |
| Some of it is due to a natural reluctance to | | | | before marriage or with any man besides their |
| undermine the status quo and some of it is in | | | | husband after marriage.Men are granted all |
| reaction to Western pressure.I believe most | | | | the freedom they can afford to discretely get |
| of Asian sexual repression is not Puritanism | | | | away with.Dao Jones, the founder of is |
| in the same sense as it means to us (A | | | | connecting Asian women to Western men in a |
| puritan is anyone who hates the thought that | | | | very unique and succesfull way. |