China's One Child Policy is a great policy.

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izaaz101 said:

sapphi_snake said:

izaaz101 said:

And I didn't know that hinduism is very pro-sex, but I find it odd that India is very...conserved when it comes sex, when hinduism is the dominant religion. I wonder what accounts for that?

Well they did write the Kama Sutra, no? The Christian British had a negative influence on their society in that regard. Open attitudes towards sex were also present in Japan (they had sex toys like dildos in the 16th century), and they too sadly were negatively influenced by European Christians (and Americans).

Damned British, ruining everything!

And I'm wondering how freaky these dildos and other sex toy were...

Actually thinking about it, maybe this repression is leading to all the (what I find) weird sexual things that have occurred in Japan (I don't remember all the details, but it was in a thread posted here I believe, something like a guy marrying his pillow, or males would rather have sex with a cartoon character than a real female, something like that). Maybe society has hammered into their heads that they shouldn't correlate sex with females, so not they're looking at other outlets...

Well the dildos were called harigata, and the women used them to pleasure themselves. The woman's role was to pleasure the man (except for the courtesans, who could expect pleasure), so if most women wanted to recieve pleasure they had to do it themselves (sometimes during sex men would use these on the women, if they couldn't get it up, or if they were too small).

Another sex toy was konomi-shinju, which was essentially anal beads, which both men and women used.

And finally the only other one I know of is kimitsu-kawa, the cockring, used by men obviously.

The problem with repressing sex is that it leads to weird behaviours and dysfunctions. The irony is that repressin is the best way to fetishize sex, as at some point people will take it no longer, and you'll have all sort of exhibitionist behaviours.