“Nisan (pictured above) is a balding, flacid, 37-year-old, never-married video gamer. He describes his 3-year relationship with “Nemu” – whom he’s driven hundreds of miles on trips to visit Kyoto, Osaka and Nara — as blissful but chaste….
Toru Taima, also never married, makes no claims of innocence. He sells X-rated body-pillow covers at gaming conventions – and his eyes light up like a LED screen when he readily concedes he engages in sex with some of the 150 pillow cover characters he owns…..
Cultural observers say the rise of 2-D love can be pinned in part on the difficulty many young Japanese of modest means have in navigating modern romance. More than a quarter of men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins; 50 percent of men and women in Japan do not have friends of the opposite sex, a government survey reports….
Honda, 40, a college dropout who worked a succession of jobs at video-game companies, began imploring gamers online to “stand with pride against good-looking men and women.”
His message — that Japan’s economic bubble of the 1980s had killed the true value of romance, turning it into an elitist looks- and money-based commodity – caught on.
And so a subculture was born over the last half-decade or so. Japan’s lonely heart gaming fanatics can now get their “piece” of action, but without fear of complication or rejection.” ”
If you’ve ever been to pornhub.com, youporn.com, or redtube.com, I’m sure you’ve seen (maybe watched?) the many anime porn videos available. And if you’re anything like me, and nothing like Nissan or Honda, the thought of watching these videos creeps the fuck out of you. I’ve brought the topic up with friends, and no one seems to get it. But then again, none of my friends are middle aged Japanese virgins. Having read this article (click on the link for the full article), I think I understand it a little more. Yea, it seems pretty weird, but who am I to judge? In a weird way, I kinda feel like I have a little bit in common with them. Just like poor Honda, I’m not built for the “elitist looks and money-based commodity” romance game. Only instead of spooning teenage japanese girl themed pillows, I write for a website embracing the gross. To each his own.
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