The topic of sex in Japan must be pretty Tabu

The topic of sex definetly isn't taboo. Kids as young as 4 and 5 see programming with brief nudity and sexual innuendo in Japan. No, the issue is definetly sexism. As far as first world countries go, Japan is still pretty far behind it's peers as far as sex relations. Girls are made to wear school uniforms with exceptionally short skirts and are even colored by gender, sexual harassment is exceptionally high, and even legally tolerated to a pretty extrenious extent.

"Don't bother the government with the Constitution"

You just described every countries fixation on sexual culture. Japan isn't the only country that has stereotyped sexist archetypes. What makes a bubbly girl in a school girl outfit any different than say a girl acting helpless in a Star Wars metal bikini that geek culture in America is so obsessed with only to be saved by the manly/arrogant Han Solo character?

Sexual fixation isn't exclusively a Japanese phenomenon, its a human phenomenon.

This is better than the crap we've had to put up with in nazi america during the past 10 years...purity rings, any girl who shows the least bit of sexuality being called a "skank" and "slut", and her being bullied as a result, an increasing number of people going to prison for non-crimes with the public cheering this on. The truth is, the current generation in nazi america is one of the most deranged in the world, and in history...and american culture as a whole has dropped off the deep-end. Bring on the backlash!!!

Isn't it a bit strange that you bring this up in connection with Perfect Blue, where there is no such strong man, where the powerful and mean character is another woman, and where our heroine, though frail and fitting well in the role of the victim, does eventually fight for her own life and mental sanity, and in the end she wins?... Besides, yes the Japanese do seem very weird from many points of view, but isn't that due to the fact that Westerners judge them by Western standards and traditions? An apple might seem quite perverted if judged as an orange (no inedible shell? one homogeneous mass of fruit instead of orderly slices? ewwww!!)
I am also freaked out sometimes by Japanese peculiarities, but the thing is that I am watching Japanese movies / reading Japanese books etc. especially because I want to learn a different perspective upon human social behaviour; often I can't actually see, feel things from that different perspective; but still, I can at least try to conceive, though it's only on a theoretical level, how people can act according to a totally different set of social laws, which extends to different aesthetic, ethical, epistemic and even ontological principles...
And saying that sex roles in Japan are not only primitive but also perverted is really seeing Japanese mores through a Western lens.

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I think you should learn more about Japanese culture, before making generalities.

That being said i have noticed that there are a lot of anime movies and tv shows that show women as sex objects and nothing more. even when they are raped it's not like they try and put up much of a fight. Either that or they are blackmailed into having sex(still rape). From what I've read there are women only trains, so women go unmolested during rush hour.

I once read this manga series called confidential confession It deals with social ills in Japanese society. Part was about a girl that got raped, and it would seem at the time of it first publication, if a rape goes unreported for 6 months then it can not brought to court. When main character's friend sees pictures of the rape, she ask the girls why didn't' she fight back and bit the guy that forcing her to give her oral. When the girl tells her bf what happened he tells her that she should have killed herself. Ultimately she and her family move, and eventually she and her bf get back together.

Of all the developed nations Japan has the lowest crime rate and the birth rate. so i don't think men and women are having a much sex as their porn would make you think they do. Also more women are working instead of being home making babies, and caring for them.


Have you ever thought most of the anime you watch, was written for men not for women. There are some shows that are written for women and you can tell the differences by looking at. Most of the girls breast are small. The eyes on all the younger characters are huge and round. And the guys very thin.

I think most Japanese men, and to some extent the women, are sexually repressed which leads them to become, as you say, perverted. Gosh, these are the people who make tentacle sex and whatever kinds of creepy sex they could think of. Isn't the story of Sada Abe a perfect example of their sexual repression and that event happened more than five decades ago? I'm not saying it's only the Japanese, but it is quite prevalent in their country.

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You have to realize that a lot of the anime released in the West are of the more extreme type that the average Japanese has probably never even heard of. Many of the more popular mainstream shows don't get licensed in the USA, so we're getting a very skewed perception.