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aslouie -> RE: The awful truth behind Japan's latest adult entertainment niche... (6/19/2008 1:11:55 AM)
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Actually, I made this post to perhaps give some demystifying insight on why in general, pornography is so prevalent in Japanese, if not general Asian culture: hint, it's more to do with a different kind of repression, than say sexual liberation--at least by Western concepts.
When I read about how Japanese salarymen are so workaholic, I can't help but feel for the countless white collar workers there who have to consult the sex industry, as a way of substituting their emptiness that otherwise could be fulfilled by family back at home--but because of certain societal attitudes on the traditional Eastern work ethic (Confucian? Buddhist? Shinto?), I don't know if there's plenty of Japanese working fathers were able to spend ample time with their wives and kids, sort of like the traditional sense of being a family provider of everything but intimacy.
And by the way: I was raised in a traditional Chinese home, where the socio-cultural dynamics is not that far off from the Japanese kind aforementioned here. As for the Einstein/Hilton quote, it's in context to the whole lunacy of being famous (for being famous), in a Walter Benjamin kind of way, and how that sort of dumbs down people in the process (i.e. Sharon Stone's take on karma). No disrespect tacitus...[;)][8|]
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