Police Hunt Man for Smiling at Schoolgirl

@Anon 00:12

Japan =/= Asia. Not at all.

@HouseLife

Only genetically dysfunctional men would bang any sexually mature female they can - avoiding that is the very reason we perceive 'sexiness' and 'beauty'. That's why if a woman isn't sexy, your genes will be telling you 'don't hit that'.

Also, teens having sex with old men isn't harmful really. Older men tend to use protection more than their teenage counterparts.

You said the topic has been 'swept under the rug' for thousands of years, but it has actually started quite recently. Just think about the history of the age of consent. It used to be 13 to 14 in most major Western countries in the early 20th century.

@Anon 20:10
What? I'm an Asian and in my country, it's normal to smile to a stranger you meet on the street.

I've been curious about that as well. Officially crime is low, and yet they take such drastic measures, far more than America does. I honestly get the feeling we don't have the full story. The sexual nature of Japan seems to be an almost impossible dichotomy where sex is shunned and not talked about while openly exploited and flourishing. The only thing I can think of is a lingering sense of men having sexual entitlement that exists in BOTH sexes. I'm not sure that's a bad thing though, to be honest. It means women there are more apt to accept the 'lion pride' sexual nature of men as reality, and then adapt the culture around it as they discover themselves.

It's a far-fetched theory, but somehow it may not be too far off if the current state of affairs is analyzed.

Japan as well as most eastern countries are part of a collectivistic culture. In western countries, like all of North America, a smile is nothing more than a reflex. In places like Japan, a smile isn't actually thrown around just anywhere but reserved for when you are with your in-group. If you don't know someone and they smile at you, it is seen as if they are hitting on you. When I first came to Canada, it freaked me out whenever I would be walking anywhere and people would randomly smile at me, but now I know it's just a harmless reflex. I do it too now. But this guy being reported does make sense to those from a collectivistic culture.

@VVayfarer

I was obviously exaggerating a little, but also not really. My point was we would if we can get away with it. That doesn't mean we'll go for the lowest common denominator in any given situation.

And the idea of 13 and 14-year-olds being married and such is part of what I was talking about. Up until recently there hasn't been a very large discussion about age of consent, and the result was the 'age 18' idea, which in its nature was a good idea. It was designed to grant a safe zone in which to gain maturity without having to worry about unwanted attention, the problem is it's become an unconscious plateau with no variation, including the choice of the girls in question.

It became an excuse to remove the responsibility adolescents had in the past. We protect them from exploitation work, we protect them from unwanted sex, and the negative effect is that now the difference between child and adolescent is gone, where in most cultures pubescent children have begun the path to adulthood and are given responsibilities to help them grow into it, we've completely removed that growth as part of our culture and treat the resulting effect as the "Teenage Rebellion" which only really exists when parents don't know how to be parents.

Women are the cancer of society, since childhood ñ_ñ

"Crime buzzer"? "indecent smile"? So why do we always hear how low the rates are for sex crimes in Japan?

This happened only because he forgot to smile SHOWING the dick too!

I think we men should start wearing burkas so if we accidentally smile at someone they won't charge us with attempted kidnapping.

@HouseLife

Fair enough. At first the 'we' collective rubbed me the wrong way, but I see your point now.

On another note, having sex with adolescents isn't all that risky when compared to sex between people of age. When a sexual encounter with a teen is engineered correctly, they'll be extremely careful to keep it a secret. An adult (female), on the other hand, could always accuse the other party of rape, thus making the risk more or less the same for the less-prepared.

Yes, I smile and wave to all the children in the store I work. Never had any trouble, their parents even encourage them to wave back.
(Touching I don't dare often, sometimes a pat on the head when nobody is looking. Am I a bad person?)
But indeed, the age is very important. Young adult is fine, middle age guy is just creepy.

Nah, its alright in my country. I've helped a lost find her way back home before. Didn't get into any trouble. But then again, maybe that's because I'm a young adult, not some middle age guy...

@HouseLife:
You forgot that nowadays most women will also have sex with anything which has a penis.

Everything leads to... eh.

Kids can watch porn online? CENSOR TEH INTERNETZ
Kids can watch violent cartoons and anime? BRING IN 4KIDZ
Guys won't date any bitch who only wants their money? THEY ARE PUSSIES, BE SINGLES
etc etc etc etc

Always treatment instead of prevention. Life sucks.

@Anon 00:12

yes, calling yourself asian, how dare you lump multiple countries together like that and put it on the same level as china.