Jerram Fahey said:
The only problem I foresee is like what's going on in Japan right now - no one is interested in making babies anymore and it's becoming a nation of old farts. Their problems are rooted more in cultural retardation than too much porn though, so who knows if there'd be a similar effect elsewhere.
The country where the
health minister refers to women as "baby-making machines" has social problems relating to gender? SHOCKING! Porn's the least of their worries.
There was an interesting post on Reddit where a guy described what the "average" Japanese man's life looked like. Shame the moderators deleted it, even if it was a bit of an exaggeration. Still accessible from the guy's user page [http://www.reddit.com/user/TofuTofu?count=125&after=t1_c7cowrq] though. But here's the idea:
Spend years of your life studying your ass off before school, during school, after school, 7 days a week so you can do well on the entry exams for the best colleges.
Spend your senior year of college wearing a suit and job hunting, attending dozens of monotonous seminars [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_recruiting_of_new_graduates] and taking more exams, in the hopes that you can get a low paying entry level job at a well known firm (like a Toyota).
Slave away for 3-5 years, making $20-40K and working 80 hours a week. Go on forced drinking excursions only to be physically, verbally, and often sexually harassed by your seniors who you actually hate but pretend to like in public.
Live at home until you're 30 because you don't make enough to move out.
Finally get promoted to sub-middle-manager as you approach 30. Go on a bunch of forced group dates so you can finally get laid and settle for the plain jane over in accounting.
Get married to plain jane (who secretly resents that you don't make enough money for her to buy Coach bags) and move into a shithole apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo.
Spend the next ten years working 80 hours a week, going bald, and sleeping with hookers on business trips. You'll develop a pretty serious drinking problem while your wife sleeps with her high school sweetheart when you're out of town.
Finally get promoted to middle-manager and make decent money. Now you can afford to buy a shithole apartment in the suburbs. Enjoy your two hour commute on a packed train every day while you contemplate suicide.
Pop out one kid (because that's all you can afford) now that you're in your early 40s. Look forward to raising them to be just as miserable as you because "that's just the way things are."
Finally retire when you're in your upper 60s and enjoy life for a bit before you die of cancer.
Is it any wonder people don't want to do that anymore?
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