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This could be a reason, yet it would be strange because in all other areas of Japanese life, there is almost no stigma attached to erotic content or even hardco
by suction 5y ago
This could be a reason, yet it would be strange because in all other areas of Japanese life, there is almost no stigma attached to erotic content or even hardcore porn. Ride the subway in a big Japanese city, and every other man in there will be openly reading some kind of pornographic material, either as mags or on their phones, with children being able to see the extremely lewd cover page or more.
In every convenience store, the lewd mags are also on full display. In primetime comedy variety shows, the comedians make gross jokes about beating off or "f...ing" all the time. American stand-ups do those jokes too, but surely not on NBC at 7pm.
Even hardcore porn actresses are mainstream "stars" in Japan - they are regular guests on mainstream TV shows or do ads for chain restaurants etc. Accordingly, there is no stigma attached to young women choosing a career in the adult entertainment world. Their parents will be proud of their hard working children.
I was on a flight to Japan once where the Stewardess had to tell a Japanese man sitting next to me to please not read his porn because the "gaijin" people around him could be uncomfortable.
- rtpg 5y agoHacker News' exoticisation of Japan is exhausting. Probably further proof that nobody here is capable of discussing society. This is just completely wrong. Yes, there is porn at some convenience stores (several chains have outright removed this though). You _might_ see people outright looking at porn in the subway, but people around that person will find it disgusting that they're doing it there. This stuff is available and relatively easy to access, but people are still going to judge you if you're renting 18+ DVDs every week. Especially if you don't keep that stuff to yourself. Your TV comment is also basically wrong. The "time of day" at which more crass commentary from show hosts is allowed on the TV is definitely earlier than the US, but it sure ain't 7 PM. More likely for that sort of stuff to be airing from 10PM onwards. There's a lot of degrees of difference between Japan and Europe about this kind of stuff (the US is its own brand of puritanism that is _not_ the normal), but this sort of hyperbole is not representative of what a random Japanese person on the street thinks (unlike what you might have read on Tokyo Reporter or whatever).