Please feel free to follow the link to the article セックスレスからセカンド童貞まで、日本人にこそ必要な「セックスセラピー」とは？published in a magazine 週刊プレPlayboy Weekly, Japanese edition. The part 1 has been published on Dec 3rd, and part 2 and part 3 will be available on Dec 4th and Dec 5th respectively.
Please check this link to the online article on sexless couples and celibacy syndrome in Japan by Jade A Harvey published in The Yale Globalist, if you are interested in sexuality issues in Japan: Single and Sexless: Celibacy Syndrome in Japan.
As a sexologist I am pleased to hear that people raised tens of thousands of dollars for AIDS prevention, on the other hand – it must be admitted – this is quite non-conventional way when a group of Japanese porn actresses offered their breasts squeezed by fans at a “Boob Aid” charity event. Japan is truly a special country! They
Japan has moved to outlaw child porn possession – the last major developed country to do so, but children portrayed sexually in the country’s popular manga comic books will be exempt. So is it really a big move or just the fig leaf, so to speak? Read more on www.thedailybeast.com Japan’s Kiddie Porn Empire: Bye-Bye?
Tokyo Girls is a very insightful documentary film directed by Penelope Buitenhuis (2000, produced by The National Film Board of Canada), showing the complex world of nightclubs and hostess bars in Japan, discussing very openly the gleams and shadows of the lives of women, who opt for such a career, seen through the eyes of the hostess girls, their employers
Japan, similar to the rest of the world, faces the complex process of rapid and profound demographic and socio-economic changes (Matsumoto, 2002; Kingston, 2004; Roach, 2009), challenging the established and time-honored attitudes and perceptions of social and intimate relationships, public and private spheres, as well as social support networks (Quah, 2008). Japan, along with other Asian countries is undergoing such
I highly recommend watching the documentary No sex please. We are Japanese, by Anita Rani from BBC, which offers more insight into the contemporary Japanese sexuality and socio-demographic contributing factors.
This is another commentary about the Japanese and the sex crisis in terms of sexless couples and singles and young Japanese who apparently are not interested in sex. Well, William Pesek is willing to challenge the common motion about sexless Japanese, painting very different picture of contemporary social phenomena in Japan. Please check the article The Lust Beneath Japan’s Sex Drought and
The article provides some interesting and insightful observations why Japan is facing demographic crisis and sexual problems. Check it out: The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex.
Recently I came across an interesting and lightly written book by Boyé Lafayette De Mente, an American author, journalist, and adventurer, about ‘the sensual side of Japan’. Probably not for the academic discussion, because it is not the peer-reviewed piece of writing. However, it offers very insightful observations and is entertaining. Highly recommended for the beginners in Japan, who are