This porn robot is symptomatic, it's not the disease.

Take a look at the slate article. Peruse google and take a look at the social structure of young Japanese citizens.

If that were what we were facing in the states, I know I'd be damn alarmed.

I read a book called "Bowling Alone" years back that talked about this sort of thing in the states and most of it was fairly prophetic.

It's also peanuts compared to what we're seeing in Japan. This really is the kind of thing that could lead to the gradual disintegration of an entire nation of people (nation in lower case, not from a geo-political standpoint).

First off, I didn't say "Asian". That's a major faux pas on your part.

Secondly, you're clearly missing the point.

The reality is I have never been to Japan so I have no experience with people living there. Perhaps it is as you say..? My wife of 38 odd years or so is of Japanese ancestry and I can tell you most all of her relatives are pretty decent, hard working, honest folks.

Are her relatives millenials, though? We're talking about this generation and the next, not the previous one.

I guess I just disagree with the way you're intertwining the two and still saying it's not about religion. Morality is way too complicated to be reduced only to values coming from Judeo-Christian teachings. And in your instance, you're still assuming that the example person in question went to church the first 12 years of their life. Most of those values are inherent to all humans no matter where they're born.

I simply don't think religion has any place in the discussion at all, either directly or latently applied like you're doing. And I also don't think the US is any example at all to point to in regards to great morals. We're suffering from many of the same moral ills that they are. And it will get worse as population density and poverty both increase here like it has there. We're headed down that path a lot more than people realize.

Don't think of it as religion but rather a philosophy and how such philosophy came to shape our means of governance, business and social ethics and personal motivations.

We live in a society where we're told that everyone is equal, yet men are clearly treated as second class citizens in family courts. We also have states where a woman can have an affair and get knocked up by the lover, yet the husband is still legally stuck with the check, even if the child is proven not to be his. With that sort of thing going on, it's not surprising to see that more and more men are wary of the entire notion of marriage.

Both her father and mother were born in America. Prior to that all were born in Japan. Of her relatives I have met, most are her and my age..50's and 60's. Old timers...;)

You're welcome to disagree.

FWIW, do you or your colleagues visit Japan frequently? Do you do direct business with them? Are you familiar with Buddhism and how it's practiced in Japan? Are you familiar with their current society, as a whole?

Cultural?

let me eat dinner and I'll try and defend myself

Anyone here ever banged a jap?

That's nice. I sure am glad you're living vicariously through your friend.

Still not getting it. Is he trying to say that: 1) This will be a common household item in Japan, and 2) It won't sell here?

You can buy sex in the US. You can buy sex toys in the US. So someone in Japan develops a high tech sex toy, and that means the nation is immoral or weird because of its lack of a Judeo-Christian origin?

Sounds like some rather lame ass reasoning to me.

LMAO