This occidental fascination with Japanese sex is embarrassing. Or perhaps I just feel that these "reports" don't lend enough academic gravitas to the subject and end up being weird, discomforting vouyeristic pieces that conflate several different phenomena without the rigour the topic deserves.
rtpg|12 years ago
It's not like everyone in Japan is an otaku or something, they happen to be more visible but you're just as ostracized there as if you were a super nerd in the West. And most of them (at least the ones I talk to) aren't disinterested in sex or having girlfriends or whatever. Just going to large events like Comic Market and the number of otaku couples you see prove otherwise.
The people like those in the article are basically the same as that one nerd who, through a combination of social inpetitude and bad circumstance, ends up being completely unwanted by any girl. In the west you'll get the same sort of people , and they end up turning into women-hating MRAs or something. In Japan they get a different outlet through dating sims or whatnot. Different outlets for the same problem.
A more benign reason for people not getting married or having sex or whatever is simply that people don't seem to have the time. In Tokyo especially, people are beyond busy. The Japanese elite must be proud of themselves, because they've seemed to trick an entire society into thinking that working 80 hour work weeks, and only taking 2 weeks vacation a year, is normal. It's bizarre and depressing. At least in my experience, Japanese want to have fun just like other people (the fun is usually more benign but still), it's just they have no time.
timje1|12 years ago