Analysis of Japanese society's attitude towards erotica from the perspective of historical culture
How do we know Japan as a country?
When I was young, I was first exposed to video games and comics. At the beginning of puberty, there was a kind of books, pictures, and pictures that spread between boys with mysterious smiles and began to learn those things. It ’s almost all a new world brought by Japanese AV (Adult Video. At that time, I thought that the Japanese are probably the best eccentric people in the world! The male students exchanged secretly to watch, the excited face was red, but I am also very afraid of being discovered, it is the enlightenment of adolescence.
When I went to Japan, I was attracted by Japan's clean and clean environment and polite and friendly people. The Japanese abide by the norms, keep order, pay attention to appearance and behavior, and take into consideration the people around them in every move, and do their best to maintain the harmony of the surrounding environment.
The only thing that surprised me was that the little yellow books exchanged between our middle school classmates could be bought in the convenience store generously. The office workers with suits and pens were even able to read them over there, not at all. Feel embarrassed.
The plots of the Japanese tram mob (sex wolf) we have seen are actually endless in the real world. Because there are too many cases of harassment on the subway, Japan has also designed a special female compartment to allow women to avoid men Harassment.
And Japanese high school girls actively seek out the assistance communication behaviors of older men who can be their fathers to exchange money for their bodies, which has also become a serious social problem in Japan.
01 Prostitution in Japan is a crime, but acts like prostitution are everywhere.
In 1956, Japan passed the Prostitution Prevention Act by Congress, proclaiming that sex trafficking is illegal and needs to be banned. But the magic is that the Japanese metropolis must have a red light district and a playground for adults. Such as striptease, bars with girls to accompany drinks, cowboy shops, massage shops, tea shops, personal viewing yellow video specialty shops, and even special shops for voyeur erotic performances. What is more exaggerated is that the so-called bath center (Soap Land) in Japan actually provides physical transactions, and all of them need to be registered with the Japanese police.
Why is it not illegal to provide such services in the bathing center? There is a very interesting argument. Because the bathing girls and male guests in the bathing center fully relax and have physical contact during the bathing process, love may be generated under this atmosphere, and the relationship becomes a matter of course under free will.
The Japanese sometimes use some generous things to do things that should be covered up, which is always ridiculous.
Kabukicho in Tokyo, Japan is a large red light district in Japan. In this place, various erotic advertisements tell you that this is the place to buy spring.
In addition to the red light district, the newspaper and magazine areas in the convenience stores and bookstores are also fair and well-stocked with pornographic books or pornographic films and erotic place guides for people to choose (with plastic model books to prevent minors from directly watching) for purchase.
Now let you feel that as long as you are an adult male, these sexual services are readily available and can be easily discussed in public. Many people believe that due to such a booming erotic industry, Japanese sexual assault and sexual crimes have been reduced to a certain extent, and at the same time, emotional stress has been greatly relieved.
02 Japan has been very open to sexual concepts since ancient times.
The primitive religion in Japan is Shintoism, which worships all things as spirits. It is quite primitive nature worship, ancestor worship and reproductive worship. As with many primitive human tribes on Africa and the Pacific islands, the worship of penis and vulva is an important component. In ancient times, frequent intercourse between men and women could bring population to the tribe, so this behavior is encouraged . Such a thing is a common phenomenon in which humans have not yet evolved civilization in the early days, and indulgence itself is encouraged.
Until the construction of human society began, there was the concept of family and marriage. At the same time, almost all human religions would oppose extramarital sex. What's more, they encouraged believers to control their desires, and the restraint on sex continued to strengthen. The control of chastity is common at home and abroad. It can even be said that as long as it is a place where religion is prosperous, virgins are valued. What's more, the emphasis on chastity has become more restrictive of women's autonomy. The development of chastity concept severely limits women's autonomy and freedom.
However, Japan has no such evolution, and slowly builds its own country by the faith of Shintoism and the way of matriarchal society.
For a long time in Japanese history, it was popular to visit marriage until the early Meiji period in Japan (early 19th century). Marriage is a common marital status in matrilineal society, which means that after marriage, men and women still live in their own homes, and only live in the girls' homes at night.
In the form of visiting marriage, there is no strong possessiveness between the man and the woman on the other's body. The man only needs the woman for him that night. In the matriarchal society, it is not uncommon for people to add morals to the matter of sex. Therefore, the relationship between the freedom of men and women is very common in ancient Japan.
Due to the custom of visiting marriage, men and women will not live too far, and it is difficult to avoid marriage between close relatives. Without sexual and moral control, once a man enters his wife ’s house, he can freely have a relationship with a woman or sister other than his wife. Even such things can happen even when an adult son arrives at the mother ’s house. There are many incest incidents in Japan, and this will not be criticized.
Around the sixth century AD, Buddhism was introduced to Japan. After the Dahua reform since 645 AD, Confucianism has gradually influenced Japan, and gradually has the concept of ethics and chastity, but that only affects the high-level ruling class. For civilians, there is nothing Too much impact. For the part of temperance and even abstinence, the Japanese are indifferent. In Japan, Buddhism even gives monks the right to marry their wives and have children.
Japan has been a very serious class country since ancient times, and the privileged class above samurai has the power to have money and power. People must have something in order to start paying attention to the value of ownership. And if the creator of the concept of chastity is because men have stronger sexual possessiveness than women, of course the possessiveness of the class with more privileges will also be higher.
After the introduction of Confucianism in Japan and the combination of Bushido, it began to have a moral concept called chastity. In the Edo period, due to the introduction of Song Ming Confucianism and Yang Mingxue, the Tokugawa Shogunate began to hope to restrict Japanese women with women ’s ethics. There was a punishment decree for acts such as adultery.
In 1742, the Edo Shogunate published "The Hundred Articles of the Imperial Order" and sentenced the death penalty to the adulterous samurai wife and love. However, if the wife of the businessman cheats, it can be settled with money, and the judgement will be made according to the different classes of the peasants, peasants, and industry.
The irony is that the concept of chastity that a woman ’s life can only be loyal to a man is actually promoted by high-end men with many wives. In economic terms, chastity is the rationality of a privileged class of men monopolizing resources for all women, as well as men of lower strata.
This is not important at all in Japan. A virgin is something that needs to be abandoned.
03 The Japanese do not have a virgin complex and no concept of chastity.
After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese quickly entered the modern business society. The idea of attaching importance to the spirit of contract began. Under the notion of contract, it is necessary to strictly implement things after signing the contract. Marriage is like a contract. Both parties can freely discuss business before signing the contract, so after marriage, the couple needs to be loyal to each other, and before marriage, that is not too important.
The Japanese man thinks that after marriage, he only owns the future of his wife, not the past.
Because of free sexual concepts and attitudes in Japan, sex is only an act to please both parties, and it is not impossible to talk or be moral. Therefore, virgins and virgins actually represent jerky immature and cannot be happy on the flesh. Japanese high school girls even laughed at their classmates and friends who were virgins, saying that they were not welcome by the opposite sex. On the other hand, those men and women with great skills and powerful appeal are generally popular in Japanese society. So we can also see descriptions of mocking virgins in many Japanese comics.
The early Japanese adult action film actress Iijima Ai, in addition to real live performances, also joined drama performances and even talk shows, and even became a best-selling author. Next, Mr. Aoi, who is well-known to the majority of men, was not worried and tried many new performance opportunities. It is difficult to imagine if it is not in a society like Japan.
Due to the opening of sexual concepts, even if the contract of marriage is in many Japanese families, it is just for economic life and the formation of progeny. Marriage derailment is certainly wrong, but it does n’t feel too guilty about her husband and family. In the 1990s, a very serious social problem in Japanese society was injustice (that is, cheating on an affair), so Junichi Watanabe's novel "Paradise Lost" is very popular in Japan. Contract.
The 90s Japanese drama "Lovers!" Is about the story of two couples derailing each other and then re-matching, which is also widely welcomed and recognized in Japan. In Japan, the sanctity of marriage is no higher than love.
04Booming adult industry
In 1682, the well-known Japanese novel "Lecherous Generation Man" published by the author Ihara Nishizu was extremely enjoyable in color description, full of sensory stimulation, and highly praised in the Japanese literary world. The story of the novel describes that the protagonist Sesuke went to Huaxiang Liuxiang across the country from the age of nineteen, and the prostitute brothel did erotic practice. This is simply an erotic novel and night guide for the Edo period in Japan.
This novel was all the rage in the Edo period, and Ichihara Nishizu is known as a master of modern Japanese literature. It is also worth mentioning that the illustrations of the novel were produced by the painter Rinkawa Shishu. Lingchuan's wonderful paintings have been flirted with men and women and even erotic paintings, and became the founding ancestor of the so-called ukiyo-e.
In the mid-Edo period, Ukiyo-e was generally referred to as a place of wind and moon, so a print specifically depicting the joy of citizens was called Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a unique way of expressing artistic paintings in Japan, but it was popular at the beginning because of erotic paintings.
As can be seen from the novel, in the seventeenth century in the Edo period in Japan, various entertainment venues of Fengyue have been very developed. There are already developed nationwide tour guides (brothels, red light districts). Men ’s lustful demeanor is a commendable trait, and there are a lot of special service areas that provide entertainment.
Since Japan ’s attitude towards sex has been quite open since ancient times, it has not been subject to moral criticism, so even today, buying spring is a matter of no moral pressure in Japan. For many married men, because of the pressure of work, it is not difficult to be embarrassed to spend money embracing a young body after work, and it can even be boasted.
It is also because sexual harassment is very common in Japan because of the lack of moral pressure on sex and the high intensity of pressure in modern society. To alleviate such sexual assault is to provide a large number of erotic services. The development of Japanese adult films is the product of such a historical and cultural framework.
In 2015 in Japan, there are incomplete statistics about 9000 AV actresses, there will be 100 AV works every day, and 6,000 actresses will debut every year.
Therefore, we will see many beautiful women with beautiful bodies go to the sea to shoot adult movies. Similarly, there will be a large consumer population and a large number of overseas exports as a textbook for many young men's sexual enlightenment.
You can find almost any erotic service in Japan. But in such a country with such convenient access to sexual resources, as times have evolved, Japan today has the largest asexual population.
In a 2015 survey by the British media BBC in Japan, 43% of young people aged 18-34 said that they had never had sex.
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