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SexEd from Japan

Words by Mija Kovacic

YOUR skirt is too short. Dont have sex until marriage. Wear a promise ring. Nudity
is offensive. As a society, despite an over-sexualised media presence, the Western culture has spent
a lot of time convincing itself that sex is bad, and the longer we put off our children from having it,
the better. It seems that while we see sex as a problem to be solved, Japan has grown so worried that
their youth isnt having enough sex, theyve declared a national emergency about its sekkusu shinai
shokogun, or celibacy syndrome.
The United States has a reported college hook-up culture that Japan can only envy. A survey earlier
this year by the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) found that 45 percent of women aged 1624 were not interested in or despised sexual contact,says Abigail Haworth at Britains The Observer.
More than a quarter of men felt the same way. The most common reason for lack of sexual activity
among Japanese young adults was too troublesome or I cant be bothered thats the spirit!

With a low fertility rate of 1.41 children per woman,

Japans conception rate is considered so troublesome that at this rate, the countrys population of

127 million will shrink to 83 million in 2060, and 43 million by 2110.

What does this have to do with the Western world? Well, it seems that while not as drastic, our fertility
rates are also below the necessary 2.1 children per woman needed to replace the population. While
were in better shape than the Japanese people, its very possible theyre providing us a glimpse into
our future. People are marrying later or not at all, birth rates are falling, single-occupant households
are on the rise, and, in countries where economic recession is worst, young people are living at home.
They are also communicating over computers and smartphones more than in person, choosing pets
over children, and fetishising sexy robots, for example. Haworth cites the example of an early-30s male
Japanese virgin who cant get sexually aroused unless he watches female robots on a game similar to
Power Rangers.
So, we dont have sex fetish robots just yet I dont think, but perhaps a more sexually approving and
encouraging society would benefit us. With Japan still reportedly going through the sexual revolution
that hit Western countries in the 1960s and 70s, their nationwide celibacy may be justified by their
current position; however, they are also seeing the career-driven attitude women hold towards their
careers in Australia and the United States, with marriage and childbirth seen as being a handicap. While
we havent reached national emergency levels celibacy syndrome, if our government follows suit, it
may soon be our citizen duty to get lucky.

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Why
Japanese
People
Arent
Having
Sex
Ken Seeroi
After living in Japan for a few years, this actually makes sense to me. Okay, Im not like a sociologist or
anything. Im just some dude in Japan who tries to find a clean pair of socks so he can put one on and
run to the station to cram onto the train with ten thousand of the unhappiest Japanese people youve
ever seen. I dont pretend to have discovered the Unified Field Theory of Japanese sexuality, but Ill give
you four factors that I think are contributing.

Thing One:

Work in Japan

People in Japan, and Tokyo in particular, work a ridiculous amount, in a way thats hard to comprehend
if you live in, say, sunny California. Take a former student of mine, Naoko, who worked as a programmer.
She workedwrap your head around thistwenty hours a day.
Every day at 4 a.m., she said, theyd turn off the lights and wed sleep at our desks for four hours.
Did you have locker rooms? I asked. What about clothes?
I just wore the same clothes, but on Sunday Id go home for half a day, to shower. The men only went
home once a month.
That must have smelled pretty nice. How longd you do that for?
Five years and three months, she said.
Okay, so maybe thats an extreme example. A more typical case is probably my former student
Masahiro, whos an executive at a famous beverage manufacturer. He works from 9 a.m. until to
midnight, six days a week, with a 15-minute lunch break at his desk. He has Sunday off, which is when
he studies English.
I have it easy, he said, since I work at an international company. Japanese places are a lot worse.
Do you ever see your wife? I asked.
I see her on Sunday, he said.
But Sundays when you come here to study English, I pointed out.
Ah, good point, he said.
For most people, it comes down to two choices:

work like mad as a single person and have a tiny apartment full of dirty clothes and
half-eaten Cup Ramen containers, or get married.
That way, the man goes off to work, and when he comes home after midnight, his dinner is sitting on the
table covered in Saran Wrap, and theres hot water in the tub. His wife and daughter are already asleep.
Shopping, ironing, cleaning, paying the bills, everythings taken care of for him. All he has to do is bring
home a paycheck. The woman gets to do all the fun, fulfilling things like taking care of baby, grocery
shopping, cleaning, and cooking meals.

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Why Japanese People Arent Having Sex

Thing Two:

Prostitution in Japan

Again, this is a hard thing to reconcile if you dont live in Japan, but being in a relationship and having
sex have precious little to do with one another. For a Japanese male, its possible to get sex almost anywhere, at any time, for little more than the price of a decent lunch. Anyone whos been in Japan for
even a short while has seen the rows of shops offering all the usual services.
Now, Im in no way saying that the majority of men and women participate in this, but the fact that the
institution exists changes the social dynamic. All Japanese people innately recognize that:

If youre a man with just a little bit of money, you can have sex with as many attractive women as
you want.
If youre an attractive woman, well . . . Look, I teach English for a living. Every week, people pay me to sit
in Starbucks and simply talk with them. Afterwards, I go to a bar, and every week, sure as hell, someone
will approach me and say, Wow, lets speak English together! Now, I may even want to, but really, who
gives away what they can sell? Its my job, not my hobby.
So prostitution has turned sex in Japan into a commodity. Its something thats available for purchase,
like movie tickets or a head of cabbage or something. Sex isnt an expression of love between two

people; its something that can be bought or sold when necessary.

Now dont get me wrongagain, I dont mean to imply that there are a lot of men going to these places,
or a lot of women working there. It sure seems that way, but I dont actually know. What I mean to say
is that the fact that it exists changes the way people view relationships. As in, I once dated a girl who
told me, You know, a lot of men would pay good money to be dating me like you are. Which I really
couldnt argue with because, well, she was right. They would.

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Thing Three:

Japanese Social Relations

Recently, a friend of mine got married to a man through an arranged marriage. She used to get drunk
and try to kiss me whenever my girlfriend ran to the bathroom. She was awesome like that, actually.
Do you love him? I asked.
He does train maintenance, she said. Thats a stable job.
Im pretty sure you just answered a different question, I said.
Well, I will eventually, she replied.
Ill try to put this in the best light possible, but Japanese social relations . . . um, well, theyre terrible.
The society functions with robot-like efficiency because your boss tells you what door
your parents, or your teacherand you do it. Theres a hierarchy. The fact is, you dont chal-

lenge what youre told, you dont offer up original ideas, and you dont initiate conversation
with strangers.

Which presents a koan-like riddle: If you dont talk to people you dont know, how do
you get to know people?
Ive lived in my current apartment building for, lets see, about a year and a half now. Man, time flies.
Anyway, in that time the number of neighbors Ive met is . . . zero. I actually rode the elevator down
with a guy yesterday. He was about my age and was tying his tie while I was still fumbling into my shoes.
Okay, so heres a little quiz for you, to see how well you know Japanese culture:
I figured Id break the ice with a non-threatening situational observation, so I said in Japanese:
Yeah, another busy morning, huh?
To which he replied (choose one):
A. Yeah, it sure is.
B. Oh jeez, I cant believe my alarm didnt go off.
C. Do you know how to tie a Double Windsor?
D. Holy crap, a white guy in my building!
E. Absolutely freaking nothing.
If you chose Absolutely freaking nothing, then congratulations, youre about halfway to earning a
Bachelors in East Asian Studies. The reality is: people dont have a lot of contact with each other.

For Japanese folks, its insanely difficult to establish friendships and connections, which is no
doubt why so many Host and Hostess Bars exist, so people can at least pay someone to talk to
them.
Japanese people excel at social interactions when there are clearly defined roles: Boss and Worker,
Clerk and Customer, Drunk Salaryman and Gaijin. There are clear rules and precedents for those situations. But for two Japanese people to strike up a conversation while in line at the grocery store? Well,
its hypothetically possible, I suppose, like Dark Matter or something.

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Thing Four:

That Sexy Sexy Atmosphere

People are massively impacted by their environment and the people around them. Thats the Ken
Seeroi Theory of Human Behavior. That means that if everyone else is having an awesome, sexy time,
youre more likely to as well. Thats why we have New Years Eve. When its a sunny day, everybodys
happy, and when it rains, everybodys glum. Lifes funny like that.
So I was talking this over with my colleague Fujimoto-sensei last week, and he said,
Ah, Ken, you should have seen it in the 90s. Japan was different then. Everybody was making money,
people were positive, it was more fun.
To which I replied, Uh, its Seeroi-sensei, remember? But yeah, Ive heard that from a lot of people.
Sorry, Ken-sensei, he said. Then, You know I used to have a wife and a girlfriend in those days.
And now all you have is a wife? I asked.
Yeah, he sighed. I think were in a recession.
So then after work, I went to my usual shokudo, which is basically like a cheap restaurant. Its a tad
dingy and run-down, but the foods solid. I think of it like an extra living room, which helps since my
apartments so darn small. The place was packed full of about thirty guys and gals in dark suits all sitting
alone in silence, eating and reading manga or staring at their smartphones with glazed eyes. I stayed for
about an hour and a half, ate some grilled mackerel and rice and miso soup, drank an Asahi beer, and
watched TV. Their grilled fish is really good, I must say. The only person I talked with was the

waitress, which is pretty typical. Shes about sixty and doesnt say stupid things
like, Wow, you can use chopsticks, so I like her. Then I walked the concrete corridor to
the station and silently waited in line for the train.

Eventually I got to my own dark building and rode the elevator up. Did I simply come to Japan too late?
I wondered. Like 20 years too late? Then I opened the door and found my apartment just as I left it,
full of dirty laundry and Cup Noodle containers. Nah, Japans still wonderful, I thought as I took a can of
malt liquor from the fridge. I just need a Japanese wifethats the ticket. Someone to clean this place
up, cook me some hot meals, and love, eventually.

Major aspects of cultural relationships are only visible behind closed doors. The
interesting part about these relationships is the extreme disparity between the
persona reflected behind closed doors to that of the daily self. Japanese sex
culture plays on these extremes, allowing for a dual sense of identity, both sexual
and social.

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The changing sphere of sexuality for women

Japan sees surge in aspiring adult film actresses; 6,000 said to debut each year
TOKYO
The Japanese sex film, or adult video (AV), industry is big business. Its said that around 20,000
videos are released annually and some Japanese AV actresses have achieved celebrity status
even outside of Japan.
And its not just demand for Japanese skin flicks thats thriving.
According to nonfiction writer Atsuhiko Nakamura, who has published several books based on
interviews with AV actresses, the number of Japanese women seeking work in the

adult video industry has increased dramatically over the past decade, with
some 6,000 girls making their debut every year.

While the adult video industry is known for being recession-proof, Nakamura points out that not
all applicants are in it for the money: One girl had been working for a major bank for one or
two years and had begun to feel unsure if it was the right career choice for her. She likes sex and
realized she could be an AV actress, and told me she was really happy with her career change.
And, despite the nature of the work, a strong academic or educational background is valued by
producers when trying to sift through so many applicants. Girls from top-tier colleges are often
chosen over those who have a weak academic background, said Nakamura. Those with credentials and a job are also more likely to make the cut, especially teachers and nurses.

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Life in modern Tokyo:

Kabukicho Love Hotel

Kabukicho Love Hotel is the latest film by Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki.
Hiroki (born 1954) started in the 1980s in the soft-porn genre called pink film, and has since moved to
mainstream filmmaking with noted works such as 800 Two Lap Runners (1994) and Vibrator (2003), as
well as melodramas such as April Bride (2009) and Crying 100 Times: Every Raindrop Falls (2013).
In Kabukicho Love Hotel the concerns in Hirokis previous works still make themselves felt, but there is
also a certain focus on ordinary people and their lives, and even an attempt to deal with broader social
problems.
The film is an ensemble of stories about people in some way connected to a love hotelan
establishment where rooms are rented either by the hour or by the nightin Tokyos notorious
Kabukicho red-light district. It takes place over 24 hours and, while overall the many coincidences strain
credulity, each characters circumstances in and of themselves ring true. One is therefore inclined to see
it as an artistic attempt at depicting a cross-section of life in the metropolis.

Human relations, including the most intimate ones, are thoroughly corroded in the big
city, which attracts and exploits human material across national borders
that seems to be one implied message. While the Kabukicho Love Hotel concludes with something
resembling a happy ending, one is reminded more than anything of Engels words:

But the more the hetaerism [extramarital intercourse] of the past is changed in our
time by capitalist commodity production and brought into conformity with it, the more,
that is to say, it is transformed into undisguised prostitution, the more demoralizing are
its effects.

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Love Hotel Culture

Love hotels can usually be identified using symbols such as hearts and the offer of a room rate for
a rest as well as for an overnight stay. The period of a rest varies, typically ranging from one to
three hours. Cheaper daytime off-peak rates are common. In general, reservations are not possible,
leaving the hotel will forfeit access to the room; and overnight-stay rates become available only after
10:00 p.m. These hotels may be used for prostitution, although they are sometimes used by budgettravelers sharing accommodation.

Entrances are discreet; and interaction with staff is minimized. Rooms are often selected

from a panel of buttons; and the bill may be settled by pneumatic tube, automatic cash machine, or a
pair of hands behind a pane of frosted glass. Although cheaper hotels are often quite sparse, higherend hotels may feature fanciful rooms decorated with anime characters; and equipped with rotating
beds, ceiling mirrors, karaoke machines, and unusual lighting; or may be styled similarly to dungeons
or other fantasy scenes, sometimes including S&M gear.

These hotels are typically either concentrated in city districts close to stations, near
highways on the city outskirts, or in industrial districts. Love hotel architecture is sometimes
garish, with buildings shaped like castles, boats or UFOs and lit with neon lighting. However, some
more recent love hotels are very ordinary looking buildings, distinguished mainly by having small,
covered, or even no windows.

The history of love hotels can be traced back to the early Edo Period, when establishments appearing
to be inns or teahouses with particular procedures for a discreet entry or even with secret tunnels
for a discreet exit were built in Edo and in Kyoto. Modern love hotels developed from tea rooms used
mostly by prostitutes and their clients but also by lovers. After World War II, the term tsurekomi
yado was adopted, originally for simple lodgings run by families with a few rooms to spare. These
establishments appeared first around Ueno, Tokyo in part due to demand from Occupation forces,
and boomed after 1958 when legal prostitution was abolished and the trade moved underground.
The introduction of the automobile in the 1960s brought with it the motel and further spread the
concept.
The original term has since fallen into disuse within the industry itself thanks to the euphemism
treadmill, and an ever-changing palette of terms is used by hotel operators keen on representing
themselves as more fashionable than the competition. Alternative names include romance hotel,
fashion hotel, leisure hotel, amusement hotel, couples hotel, and boutique hotel.

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STREET OF SHAME (1956)

http://youtu.be/tP8uiQfASG0
Often named as one of Japans three most important filmmakers (alongside Akira Kurosawa and Yasujir
Ozu), Kenji Mizoguchi created a cinema rich in technical mastery and social commentary, specifically
regarding the place of women in Japanese society. After an upbringing marked by poverty and abuse,
Mizoguchi found solace in art, trying his hand at both oil painting and theater set design before, at the
age of twenty-two in 1920, enrolling as an assistant director at Nikkatsu studios.
By the midthirties, he had developed his craft by directing dozens of movies in a variety of genres, but
he would later say that he didnt consider his career to have truly begun until 1936, with the release of
the companion films Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion, about women both professionally and romantically trapped.
Japanese film historian Donald Richie called Gion one of the best Japanese films ever made. Over
the next decade, Mizoguchi made such wildly different tours de force as The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939), The 47 Ronin (194142), and Women of the Night (1948), but not until 1952 did he
break through internationally, with The Life of Oharu, a poignant tale of a womans downward spiral in
an unforgiving society.
That film paved the road to half a decade of major artistic and financial successes for Mizoguchi, including the masterful ghost story Ugetsu (1953) and the gut-wrenching drama Sansho the Bailiff (1954),
both flaunting extraordinarily sophisticated compositions and camera movement.
The last film Mizoguchi made before his death at age fifty-eight was Street of Shame (1956), a shattering expos set in a bordello that directly led to the outlawing of prostitution in Japan.
Few filmmakers can claim to have had such impact. Criterion

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Will you still medal in the morning?

The real games in the Olympic Village will not be televised

ESPN The Magazine July 23, 2012

AMERICAN TARGET SHOOTER Josh Lakatos faced a conundrum. Halfway through the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney, he and his rifle-toting teammates were finished with their events, and the U.S.
Olympic Committee and team officials had ordered them to turn in the keys to their three-story house
and head back to the States. But Lakatos didnt want to leave. He knew from his experience four years
earlier in Atlanta, where hed won silver, that the Olympic Village was just about to erupt into a raucous
party, and there was no way he was going to miss it. So he asked the maid at the emptied-out dwelling if
shed kindly look the other way as he jimmied the lock. I dont care what you do, she replied.
Within hours, word of the nearly vacant property had spread. Popping up once every two years, the
Olympic Village is a boisterous city within a city: chock-full of condos, midrises and houses as well as
cafs, barbershops, arcades, discos and TV lounges. The only thing missing is privacy -- nearly
everyone is stuck with a roommate. So while Lakatos claimed a first-floor suite for himself, the remaining
rooms were there for the taking. The first to claim space that night were some Team USA track and field
fellas.
The next morning, Lakatos says, swear to God, the entire womens 4x100 relay team of some
Scandinavian-looking country walks out of the house, followed by boys from our side. And Im just going,
Holy crap, wed watched these girls run the night before. And on it went for eight days as scores of
Olympians, male and female, trickled into the shooters house -- and thats what everyone called it,
Shooters House -- at all hours, stopping by an Oakley duffel bag overflowing with condoms procured
from the villages helpful medical clinic.

TAKE YOUR MARK

Home to more than 10,000 athletes at the Summer Games and 2,700 at the Winter, the Olympic Village
is one of the worlds most exclusive clubs. To join, prospective members need only have spectacular
talent and -- we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But
the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in 92 when it was reported that the Games organizers
had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasnt

enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000
condoms per Olympics.

Many Olympians, past and present, abide by what Summer Sanders, a swimmer who won two gold
medals, a silver and a bronze in Barcelona, calls the second Olympic motto: What happens in the village
stays in the village. Yet if you ask enough active and retired athletes often enough to spill their secrets,
the village gates will fly open. It quickly becomes clear that, summer or winter, the games go on long
after the medal ceremony. Theres a lot of sex going on, says womens soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo, a
gold medalist in 2008. How much sex? Id say its 70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians, offers worldrecord-holding swimmer Ryan Lochte, who will be in London for his third Games. Hey, sometimes you
gotta do what you gotta do.

...a new standing order of 100,000

condoms per Olympics.

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GET SET ...

The games begin as soon as teams move in a week or so before opening ceremonies. Its like the
first day of college, says water polo captain Tony Azevedo, a veteran of Beijing, Athens and Sydney
who is returning to London. Youre nervous, super excited. Everyones meeting people and trying to
hook up with someone.
Which is perfectly understandable, if not to be expected. Olympians are young, supremely healthy
people whove been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly theyre
released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective parents arent allowed. Precompetition testosterone is running high. Many Olympians are in tapering mode, full of excess
energy because theyre maintaining a training diet of up to 9,000 calories per day while not
actually training as hard.
Unlike at a bar, its not awkward to strike up a conversation because you have something in
common, Solo says. It starts with, What sport do you play? All of a sudden, youre fist-bumping.
BMXer Jill Kintner, who won bronze in Beijing, says the Italians are particularly inviting: They leave
their doors open, so you look in and see dudes in thongs running circles around each other.
Quickly the reality sinks in that the village is just a magical, fairy-tale place, like Alice in Wonderland,
where everything is possible, says Carrie Sheinberg, an alpine skier at the 94 Winter Games and a
reporter for subsequent Olympics. You could win a gold medal and you can sleep with a

really hot guy.

The challenge athletes face is what to do with their urges and when. If you dont have discipline,
the village can be a huge distraction, Solo admits. Some swear off sex until their events are done;
others make it part of their pre-event routine. American shot-putter and silver and bronze medalist
John Godina thought hed seen it all in Atlanta: late-night hookups, friends disappearing for days at
a time. But he hadnt seen anything like the dorm room in Sydney he shared with a javelin thrower,
which had instantly become a revolving door of women without backstories. Its like Vegas, Godina
explains. You learn not to ask a lot of questions.
Still, some coaches try to limit late-night activities by enforcing 11 p.m. noise curfews, banning
alcohol consumption or, in the case of USA Swimming, forbidding cross-gender visitation in
bedrooms. Amanda Beard, with two golds, four silvers and one bronze medal to her name, was in a
relationship with another swimmer during the 2000 Games but says, People would walk around for
miles to try to sneak somewhere.
For most Olympians, the ramp-up to the Games is lonely. Not unlike movie stars on a far-flung movie
shoot, the Olympics present the perfect opportunity to find a partner who understands where
theyre coming from. Think about how hard it is to meet someone, Azevedo says. Now take an
Olympian who trains from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. every day. When the hell are you supposed to meet
someone? Now the pressure is done, youre meeting like-minded people ... and boom.

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GO!
Typically, the swimmers are some of the lucky ones who wrap up early. For Lochte, that typically
means hitting a local pub and drinking with the soccer hooligans, he says. But a teammate in
Athens had a better idea: sex on his village balcony. Another team saw it, which led to a big
argument because they accused me. I said, No, Im innocent, Lochte says, laughing. Im always
innocent. After his team finished its events in Beijing, our coach sat us down and gave us what I
can only describe as the birds-and-the-bees talk, says gold medalist Cullen Jones. Were like, Okay,
this is extremely awkward.
Just outside the village are sponsors parties. But what most Olympians want, in the end, is to bring
the party back to the village.
The athlete compound soon becomes the site of an uneasy dance between jocks on a postcompetition bender and those who have yet to compete. Says Swiss swimmer Dominik Meichtry:
Id get home from the clubs at 6 or 7 a.m., and Id feel bad for the track and field guys. Theyre
getting on a bus and were intoxicated, wearing fedoras, looking like crap. As the curtain falls
on more events, the action accelerates. Displaced roommates become commonplace, with the
standard sock-on-doorknob serving as the signal for please go away. Before long, Foudy says, it
turns into a frat party with a very nice gene pool. And heaps of stamina. Athletes are extremists,
Solo says. When theyre training, its laser focus. When they go out for a drink, its 20

drinks. With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether

its sexual, partying or on the field. Ive seen people having sex right out in the open.
On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty.
And then its over -- for most Olympians, anyway. For a few and the most committed, the games
continue -- all the way home. On a United Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles in 2000, nearly
100 Olympians were among the passengers, causing the flight attendants to begin the flight with
a warning: Ladies and gentlemen, anybody who wishes to sleep, trade seats with someone in the
front of the plane. Everybody else to the back with the Olympians. After that, the story gets fuzzy.