![]() While there is plenty of evidence that Japanese citizens are less sexually active than many Western counterparts, that can be attributed to the same factors that keep down the birth rate: The country's "exorbitant living costs, elevated stress, and diminished confidence," according to Pesek. William Pesek at Bloomberg argues that too often low birth rates are conflated with low rates of sexual activity. The fact that the show mixes traditional formality - bowing, business cards, and even a box obscuring the actual sex act - and extreme sexual playfulness is revealing.įor one, it certainly shows that sexual desire is far from dead in Japan. ![]() That being said, Orgasm Wars is worthy of analysis. It's a sticky issue (pun intended) to analyze because too often aspects of Japanese social culture, especially in regard to sex, are written off as part of the country's "strangeness." Beckie Smith at the U.K.'s The Independent writes, "Western media outlets clamber over each other in their haste to cover the story, with every report of bagel heads, snail facials, or ritual head-shaving being used as further evidence of a unique Japanese weirdness." According to one report, 45 percent of women and more than 25 percent of men ages 16 to 24 said they "were not interested in sex or despised sexual contact." Is this the same country that produced such a uniquely kinky game show? The combination of sexual temptation, shame, and competition, framed in a formalized setting, is baffling to Americans - and yet it seems to fit with what we've come to view as Japan's "weird" sexual culture.Īt the same time, it seems paradoxical considering the viral reports that Japanese citizens in their twenties and thirties are increasingly uninterested in having sex. It's a 40-minute blow job contest that begins with an exchange of bows and business cards, and proceeds to respectful pre blow job discussion featuring "trash-talking" that's as courteous and polite as a tea party. But it's more than the fact that it's a 40-minute blow job contest. Considering its scandalously "climactic battle," it's little wonder that the show has been getting a decent amount of attention.
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