"One has to remember that Japanese culture itself is very suppressed in sexuality as a whole, to the point where they still censor their pornography with mosaics, both picture and film-wise," Littlejohn said. "If you continually suppress a country in terms of sexuality, they'll just find different ways of exploring things themselves. RapeLay is just one of those ways of people expressing themselves, to see new things."One has to remember, weeaboos that have never spoken to a real Japanese person talk out of their stupid asses. Now I know that fans of teh animu will step out of animuland to read some sort of Japanese culture/history article written by someone equally as ignorant as they are about it as they are, and I think that's cute. But be ignorant on your own fucking time, and most importantly don't be like Kramer from Seinfeld and say that, "Oranges are rare in Japan," or something equally retarded to be published in an article where more ignoramii can read it and misquote it. I was actually surprised at the amount of nudity in places that you'd never find in Puritanica (aka - the US), when I went to Japan for the first time. The biggest example of which were almost completely nude, very large, photos of idols posted up around the top of a bookstore in the middle of a mall, just out in the open in the middle of Kagoshima on Kyushu.
Time for a little education: Japan censors porn because they HAVE to. Before 1868 & the Meiji Restoration, things like sexual depiction in art weren't at all suppressed. For the most part, Japan has always had a "decorum" about the privacy of relations between people. It extends back to at least the 1100s, as exemplified in The Tale of Genji, where the male & female characters at time didn't even speak face to face, and did so through a curtain or door. In 1868, during the Meiji Restoration, the nation tried to Westernize, and as such began adopting Victorian values of the time. This included censorship. After World War 2 a constitution, by and large not written by Japan but by the allies (specifically, the US), kept Japan from having any sort of national military amongst other things, which included upholding the censorship laws of the bygone Victorian law-adoption days. You may think it's strange that Japan has tentacle porn, but without this law, they likely wouldn't. Things like bukkake and tentacles are creative ways of getting around the law of not being able to show genitalia (or drawings of) on film. This is also why, if you've ever seen live Japanese porn, there are mosaics over the naughty bits, like you're watching an episode of "Cops" where a penis committed a crime. So yeah, not suppression so much as just following laws, as Japan has had a very law-abiding society for centuries.
Additionally, Japanese society is not sexually repressed (except maybe in their interpersonal relationships, but that has nothing to do with censoring porn) by anything other than a lot of men working too much and - as of late, more and more "herbivore men" who aren't all that interested in sex, coming about. There is no overarching theocracy or social view on sexuality being a bad thing. No, rather, in modern Japan, sexuality is "displaced" by a couple of things. There is the aforementioned ongoing tiredness by overworked men, whose wives are then dissatisfied by their husbands and potentially leave them. These men are also "forced" to go to nomikai, or after work meetings to drink and well, we all know what drinking does to a lot of mens' sexual performance. My cousin's family hosted a Japanese girl in the late 90s and came back in the early 2000s to go to college here. She was an only child, and unfortunately she died in a car accident during her freshman year here. It's about 7 years on now, and Mariko would've been 27 this year. Her father was a professor and her mother is a housewife. Their problem - especially now without a child to focus on - is that the husband always worked so much that he and the wife never got to know each other. So now, he's retired and they're at home together and there's this innate awkwardness because they've never really known each other as more than the parts of the machine that they comprised to make life go on. And apparently, at least according to the husband, this is quite prevalent in Japan. Another problem is that in the traditional sense, when you get married in Japan, you're considered part of the family. This often includes relatives living with you in more than a "nuclear family" sense. In a lot of Western countries, when you get married you move in to your own place with your new spouse and if a parent comes to live with you or whatever it's not until much later or unless a relative gets sick or something. When you're part of a family like that, I guess things can get sexually awkward, or you see each other a certain way and it's hard to alter that. In more recent times, though, there has been a large societal shift toward equality, with more people doing part time jobs as opposed to making long careers out of tenure, attempts at entrepreneurship, etc. Historically, Japanese women have been more caretakers & "OLs", or office ladies. In more recent times, women have made progress, though, and unfortunately, to be taken seriously about a career they have to eschew having a family. People are also opting not to have families because they feel the pressure of social responsibility, i.e. - not feeling up to the social or financial responsibilities of children.
I honestly don't even know what Mr. Littlejohn was referring to with that, "finding new ways of exploring sexuality" remark, because if Japanese society was TRULY repressed sexually, then this game wouldn't have existed (at least not in the larger sense where anyone outside of a VERY small circle of people would've known about it) in the first place. Most of this sort of stuff is made by otaku, for otaku, lolicons, moetaku, etc, that are most certainly NOT representative of Japanese societal norms. (In fact, if you bring anything close to this or "loli" or "moe" up with a typical Japanese person, their reaction is almost universally, 「気持ちわる！」 or 「あれはキモい」, which basically means "Ew, disgusting.") It seems like he's trying to say that because some Japanese guy's wife/girlfriend won't put out, he gets pissy and runs out and buys a raeplay/rapelay game to take out his frustration or something.
Additionally, this is nothing new to the East or West. People get all up in arms about this, but really, things like Usenet groups and IRC have been publicly around for years and years - almost since the inception of the internet - here and some areas of those contain the most disgusting things a human being could produce. And they require no "language patch" or even that much technical skill to access. They're right out there for a kid or teenager to find, JUST like the torrent of this one game. (In fact, I'd say that it takes a comparable amount of technical knowhow with software to get a torrent as it does to operate IRC or Usenet and download absolutely filthy things) But, as usual, because there isn't some illustrated diagram out there of a woman getting violated, the generally stupid public doesn't get outraged, because that'd require them to actually understand something aside from what's directly in front of their faces.
Finally, I live in the same city as this seemingly-pretentious, wannabe jackass, and I'm really unsurprised. This city is full of pseudo-academics and fervent "wikischolars". I'm actually pretty sure that all of the people on the east coast that have failed life's little tests and ended up at a GameSlop, Best Buy or any given cell phone dealer, all moved here. If they really know as much as they think they do or their opinions are as valuable as they all act like they are, they wouldn't all be working for $8 an hour selling box sets of The Sopranos.
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