Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, Thanks for the links. Enlightening, but I notice that nobody ties men up and photographs them, speaking volumes about the condition of women in Japanese society. What is kosher in bookbinding is not necessarily so in BDSM. The whole oeuvre makes me uncomfortable, and to my way of thinking is extremely distasteful, but to each his own, I guess. I think this whole cultural mindset (of which bondage is just one small part) is coming home to roost right now in Japanese demographics, as young women are increasingly reluctant to marry early (the average age of women marrying in Japan is 34, if I remember correctly), therefore not bearing enough children to maintain the population, which is decreasing at a quite alarming rate. The "Replacement Ratio" for a population is 2.1 children per family, to replace the parents, and for early child deaths, and Japan is at 1.4. Other countries, like Singapore, who have low ratios bridge the gap by actively encouraging immigration, but we know that is a non starter in Japan as well. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:56 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > I agree with you 100% - semi-pornographic bondage is not my scene - but > it > > seems to burned into the national artistic ethos of Japan, for some > strange > > reason (have you seen their comic books?). Any idea why it is so? > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bondage> > > and > > <http://bnn-international.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html> > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >