[Pyro7480]

In Japan porn is huge. There is a scene in last year's movie "Lost in Translation" where the female American new visitor to Japan is amazed to see men openly reading porn magazines on the subway. What is the murder rate in Japan? Is it hog wild?

Are the Japanese reproducing themselves at replacement rates? They're not, so I rest my case.

[bvw]

LOL! That's a valid point. Porn ends up counteractive, eh?

The Japanese are using porn for something else though, its a different thing for them. Still -- as the birth rate shows, not a good thing in total.

Understand what pokeman, what godzilla, etc. are about and, imo, jmo, jmho, you'll have a read on what porn is about for the Japanese.

I think that in a lot of the Jap porn they are coming to subconscious grips with the same forces and dynamics of psyche that drove the rape of Nanking, the sex slaves, etc.

[Modernman]

Are the Japanese reproducing themselves at replacement rates? They're not, so I rest my case.

If anything, high taxes and the liberal welfare state are responsible for low birth rates.

More government control is almost never the answer.

[NJ_gent]

"Are the Japanese reproducing themselves at replacement rates? They're not, so I rest my case."

Visit Tokyo and tell me that's not a good thing. Those people are half a step away from requiring Chinese-style government controls on procreation to keep the country from collapsing.

[steve-b]

Natural adjustments in demographics (e.g. the country gets overpopulated, people have fewer children) are not relevant to the issue at hand.