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