"No Sex Please - We're Japanese"
With thanks to Replikk:Japan's virgin wives turn to sex volunteers
It is not that they cannot have children; it is just that they have never had sex. The 200 women a year who seek help at a clinic in the Tokyo suburbs have not had sex with their husbands in up to 20 years, and some never, according to Kim Myong-gan, who runs the clinic. Mr Kim's short-term solution is unconventional. After an initial 20,000 yen (£100) counselling session, he produces photographs of 45 men, mostly professionals in their 40s, with whom the women are invited to go on dates and then, in almost all cases, arrange regular assignations in hotel rooms. "The men volunteer and pay half the hotel and restaurant bills, so legally there is absolutely nothing wrong with it," he said. A survey of 600 women found that 26% had not had sex with their husbands in the past year. "We are sort of room-mates rather than a married couple," one 31-year-old man, who had not had sex with his wife for two years, told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. "The men love their companies; they live for work," Mr Kim said. "Men don't even think it is a problem if they don't have sex with their wives. They have pornography and the sex industry to take care of their needs, but their wives have nowhere to go. They just suffer in silence."
What Japanese women want: a Western husband
Having ruled out an old-fashioned Japanese husband, many women here think the solution is a Western man. Indeed, some seem so enthralled with the idea that they are willing to spend thousands of dollars to inspect the wares personally. Of the more than 2,000 women on the books at one large matchmaking agency, about 200 travel to the US or Europe each month to meet prospects.
posted by Unknown @ 8:50 PM
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Volunteer work is so noble -- where do I sign up?
Maybe Northwest Airlines will enhance it's occasional "Miles and Cash" offers so we can fly to Japan & help out.
Unrelated to the current topic, but you'll probably be interested in this from Australia via Little Green Footballs:
Religious extremists an insult to our values
I still can't help but fee that people are overstating their case by underestimating/underreporting other sources of rape in Scandinavian society.
So:
--Some Japanese wives never have sex with their husbands;
and
--Some Japanese women are looking for a "western" husband.
What is the overlap there? As a "western" man, I think this would be interesting information.
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