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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by cyphar on Saturday August 19, 2017 @09:44AM (#15053294)
I would be interested to know if the reason why (to put it bluntly) porn in Japan is so extreme is due to their cultural repression of sexuality. The reason I ask is that many Asian countries have similar social stigmas around sexuality, and they also have similarly extreme forms of porn.

Not to mention the existence of hentai, yuri, and ecchi. All of which don't really have widespread western equivalents, despite western cartoons being fairly popular.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by rangibaby on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:05AM (#15053414)
How is sexuality repressed in Japan?

Hentai etc are descendants of shunga pics; you've probably seen Hokusai's "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa". You may have seen "The Dream of The Fishermans Wife" (NSFW)

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by agumonkey on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:04AM (#15053770)
In social interactions maybe ? Japan seemed to be a very repressive/elitist society. You had to be polite in everything, and sexuality is often the opposite of that (you could probably have sex through polite chat beforehand, but I'm sure it requires maturity that most people don't have)
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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by thevardanian on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:41PM (#15055475)
Just because people have a different view of sexuality, and confine it to a specific time and place, doesn't mean that it's a repressive society. You have to realize that most Asian cultures are heavily focused on context, and place, and not just the pure, isolated act.
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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by krrrh on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:44AM (#15053638)
GP was saying that sexuality as in actual sex is repressed, and speculating that pornography was widespread as a result.
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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by supergreg on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:39AM (#15053617)
I remember reading an article talking about how all the tentacle porn in Japanese hentai exists because USA banned the depiction of genitalia in the media after WWII, so they had to become creative about it.
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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by dogma1138 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:55AM (#15053709)
Actually it's the other way around. Post WW2 the allies actually removed most of the censorship laws. But the premise might be correct tho the material predates Allied occupation by 150 years.

Major NSFW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by mabbo on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:00AM (#15053736)
It goes back much further, to the early westernization of Japan.

Or so I've read. I'm not really a historian.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by dogma1138 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:00AM (#15053739)
Furries, BDSM and well rule 32...
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