Japan's lost libido and America's asexual future

Asia Times ^ | March 13, 2012 | Spengler

[Mrs. Don-o]

[According to] a Japanese government study: Almost a third of Japanese boys aged 16-20 and three-fifths of girls say that they have no interest in sex.

The hormones of late adolescence evidently rage in vain against some cultural barrier that makes young Japanese "despise" sexual relations, according to the Japan Family Planning Association's report [1].

It turns out that the ultimate victim of sexual revolution is sex itself.

What makes the Japanese hate sex? The same things that make a growing proportion of Americans hate sex. Joan Sewell's 2007 book I'd Rather Eat Chocolate became the manifesto of American women who don't like sex, hailed at the as "the next wild turn in the female sexual revolution" by Sandra Tsing Loh in The Atlantic Monthly [2].

Pharmaceutical companies are racing to market a pill to revive fading female libido, to no avail: women do not want to be sex objects, and a culture that objectifies women will make them hate sex, as I wrote in this space five years ago [3]. But the problem has gotten worse than I imagined it would.

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After half a century of sexual revolution - otherwise known as objectification - women suffer en masse from the sexual equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome, identification with their tormentors, as a number of popular commentators observe.

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For adolescent girls, the replacement of courtship by "hooking up" with "friends with benefits" is a cruel prospect.

Even though only three out of ten American teenagers aged 13 to 16 are sexually active [7], the options available to adolescent girls are narrowly defined. Adolescent boys are monsters, as anyone who has been one, or known one, can attest...

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Freud's question, "What do women want?," ...

[Norm Lenhart]

I love it...Every bit of that (with variations on the enslavement) is a huge part of the Xenogears/saga series...and it even has a white rabbit to boot!

The

[Darksheare]

My tale has a pooka.
Yes, he’s six foot tall, but he’s not invisible.
There are at least two unbound AI entities in the tale.
Currently thinking on how to resolve hurt AI ‘feelings’ when they are unbound and you force them to do something.

[Norm Lenhart]

No pooka... but there’s a mutated half human wolf that’s a b bastard child of an emperor! ;)

There was a couple episodes of the newer ‘Outer Limits” show called “Bits of Love” and “Valerie 23”that dealt with the fallout of emotional AIs. They are on the 6 disc set on the “Sex and Science Fiction” DVD.

Might give you some ideas and they are pretty good stories to boot.

AI is such an open concept. It can go in so many directions. Good and bad though in that with so many options, where do you begin to make it ‘realistic’? But when the writer ‘really’ gets it nailed, it works beautifully.

[NicknamedBob]

"There was a couple episodes of the newer ‘Outer Limits” show called “Bits of Love” and “Valerie 23”that dealt with the fallout of emotional AIs. They are on the 6 disc set on the “Sex and Science Fiction” DVD."

"Might give you some ideas and they are pretty good stories to boot."

"AI is such an open concept. It can go in so many directions. Good and bad though in that with so many options, where do you begin to make it ‘realistic’? But when the writer ‘really’ gets it nailed, it works beautifully."

I don't need ideas. But that's a different story.

"Good" and "bad" were what led me to having an epilog one (the girl of his dreams) and an epilog two (the dreams of his girl) in my last book.

[narses]

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[Norm Lenhart]

I When you mentioned you were trying to resolve the issue I just assumed you were not locked into an idea.

On the other...gotta claim ignorance. What’s the name of the book and where might I get a copy? I’d be interested in reading it.

[thecodont]

Go to a site like Cheezburger or other humor site and read the comments attached to pix of ‘normal’ looking men/women. You’d think they escaped from the pound, the ‘fat farm’ (their comments, not mine) or both.

Go to that site, post "Sex before marriage is wrong" and watch what happens.

[NicknamedBob]

"What’s the name of the book and where might I get a copy? I’d be interested in reading it."

My completed books are described on my home page. Other than the first book, "Outlandish!", (and it is!), my printer, through me, is the only source. (The last book is called "Reaction!")

On my homepage, you can click on "Outlandish!" to be taken to a link, which I just did. Curiously, that link suggests that you can buy the book as an E-Book. I don't remember giving that permission. It also mentions that there's a sale going on. Interesting.

The other books, only available through my printer, have been set up slightly differently than the first. A matched set can be arranged through PM.

By the way, I have already sent you a PM, concerning the short story, (so far), called "Night Work".

Please let me know what you might like to do. Caution is advised. This is a category I call Sociological Science Fiction. It's one of those places where "the rules are different".

[Norm Lenhart]

You couldn’t watch anything. The servers would crash with every lib in the country logging on to rant about what a backwards right wing hater you are ;)

Look at the comments under any Bush, Rush or Reagan pic. A few comments defending them and hundreds or more calling them everything but white men.

[Dajjal]

Sexual Suicide bump

[Tax-chick]

That may be the geekiest thing I’ve ever seen ... and ThinkGeek is my family’s favorite store.