Vaerama
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Japan is also one of the countries with the lowest birth rates around (and certainly the first one that matters on this list, population sample-size wise) https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/birth-rate-by-country/ notably the positions of taiwan and south korea are having similar problems. That's at least indicative of a problem with people not having very much unprotected sex... but it's also very possibly a problem with people not having very much sex 'at all.' There's a rift between japan's men and women, modernity and family values... and it's lead to all sorts of things that fill the void without the interpersonal struggles that come with having a partner. This is a frightening picture indeed: http://www.ipss.go.jp/pr-ad/e/eng/03.htmlIsn't Japan one of the countries with the lowest numbers of sexual assaults on minors though? I think their policies were pretty successful, even with the weird art! >.<
A secondary element to that is 'what precisely is regarded as sexual assault', and 'does the state involved record that specific information' (or share it). Not every state is, ah... as forthright as it might otherwise be. None of them are, if they can get away with it... and sometimes even when they can't they still do these things. Japan's 'rape per population' statistic is in the 'absurdly low' category for me. When (according to this probably really sketchy website, which is probably either the CIA's or China's, but is most certainly not Sweden's) the USA gets '27 per 100,000' and Japan gets... '1 per 100,000'? I just cannot find it in me to believe that number without real cause. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/rape-statistics-by-country/ Consider that South Korea, which follows *the same relative difficulties* with their birth rate (albeit not *quite* as extreme) and happens to be *rather similar in wider artistic style and prevalence of 'certain content'* has '13.5 per 100,000'.
That's fishy. Like Russia and China and alphabet-agencies levels of fishy. Know who else looks pretty fishy on that list? Mexico. Same number of rapes as south korea.... despite being a place where human trafficking by cartels is potentially a state-wide-civil-war level problem that's been waiting to explode since I was born? And that's lower than a (relatively) more stable state like the USA by half?!
At some point: someone somewhere has got to be lying. Like Egypt down there at the bottom, 0.10 per 100,000? XD Who do they think they're kidding? Turkey at 1.5? Russia's 3.4? China isn't even on that list! XD It really makes a person wonder exactly who's hosting that 'world population review', and who exactly decides to accept these clearly made-up statistics XD
Anyways: even if Japan's art was working out in their favor (not information I'm actually aware of, and if you'd like to go in depth I'll gladly hear what you can fluff up in this world full of deceit: I prefer people having the freedom to make art so long as it doesn't infringe on another actual human being, regardless of whether it increases or decreases people's prevalence towards baddie-hood): their society has a sickness around sex (not enough of it) and it is killing them slowly. I had way too much fun looking at that site Didn't write my next chapter like I thought I was gonna >___>