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Title: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: Chef Ramsay on January 26, 2015, 10:39:22 PM
There's just so much genius in this plan that I'm simply amazed at the brilliance. :D
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But in Japan, the worry is about a libido crisis. The birthrate is falling fast. By 2060, the population is expected to go down by a third, and, by 2100, if trends continue, by 61 percent. In 2011, sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those of baby diapers. It’s an urgent national problem: there isn’t enough procreation.

To examine Japanese attitudes toward sex, the Japan Family Planning Association interviewed 3,000 subjects, both male and female, about their sex lives. The group found that 49.3 percent of participants (48.3 percent of men, 50.1 percent of women) had not had sex in the past month. 21.3 percent of married men said they were too tired after work (versus 17.8 percent of women). Of men, 15.7 percent answered that they were no longer interested, after having children. 23.8 percent of women said sex was “bothersome.”

There are a number of diagnoses for this aversion to the bedroom. Morinaga Takuro, an economic analyst and TV personality, believes this has something to do with attractiveness. He has suggested a “handsome tax”: “If we impose a handsome tax on men who look good to correct the injustice only slightly, then it will become easier for ugly men to find love, and the number of people getting married will increase.”

Takuro writes a lament for the men in love with “2D female characters from anime and manga.” He expressed, in the Asahi Shimbun, “I want to tell them that human women are also great fun!” Technology, of course, gets blame: virtual worlds, not to mention porn.

But many, especially alarmed to see that more than 20 percent of men between 25-29 say they have little interest in sex, see the low interest in sex as part of economic depression. A Japanese columnist named Maki Fukasawa observes an increase in a group of men he’s dubbed “herbivores”: heterosexual guys who, in contrast to “carnivorous” businessmen, live without expression of sexuality. Angelika Koch, a Cambridge University scholar, author of Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy, sees “a subversion of the traditional male role of the Japanese 'salaryman': the corporate male in suit and tie who dedicates his life to his company as breadwinner for his family, the sexually assertive man who spends his evenings drinking with colleagues at hostess clubs and bars.”

Whatever the case, it’s an urgent government concern. In 2014, aware of the dangers of becoming a nation of old folks, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set aside 3 billion yen ($30 million) for programs aimed at boosting the birthrate, including matchmaking programs.

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-25/the-japanese-government-is-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-get-its-people-to-have-more-sex (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-25/the-japanese-government-is-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-get-its-people-to-have-more-sex)


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: pawel7777 on January 26, 2015, 11:19:28 PM
Lol, what?

That's only possible in Japan.

But that doesn't even make sense, how will handsome tax make easier for the ugly to find love?

And how fucking depressing will it be to know that you're not liable for handsome tax (you're officially ugly).


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: Lethn on January 26, 2015, 11:23:49 PM
What the fuck?! LOL! :D This is insane, I'm actually going to have to read this carefully to make sure I understand it right.


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I want to tell them that human women are also great fun!


No they aren't!


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after having children. 23.8 percent of women said sex was “bothersome.”



^ I'd like to point out that the highlighted part is precisely why I think there is a desperate need for a male contraceptive pill. Yeah yeah, that's right you assholes, blame porn and the virtual world, because it can't possibly be that women can act so unpleasant no one wants to be with them.


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: Rishblitz on January 26, 2015, 11:24:30 PM
the president of hungary wanted to put a tax on the internet but that was shut down fast.


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: pattu1 on January 27, 2015, 12:40:42 AM
What if women find me ugly and the government finds me handsome?
I don't get laid and I get taxed. Double whammy!  :P


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: rosh on January 27, 2015, 12:53:17 AM
Why not a tax on single women, to give them a push?  ;)


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: Chef Ramsay on January 27, 2015, 01:19:10 AM
I'm not sure where I saw this but I think it was some youtube video about how the majority of young folk over there would rather not have sex and/or get into relationships, particularly younger women. They would spend their night on the town going to parlors (for instance) where they would drink their booze while having a male escort of sorts just sort of hang out with them rather than them looking to hook up at a bar. And, there was something about how some guys would just go to a parlor and pay to lay down next a chick and just kind of spoon rather than using that money to take some chick out in hopes of continuing a relationship or try to have sex. I dug up something close to what I saw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9tUXNecLU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9tUXNecLU)


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: freedomno1 on January 27, 2015, 02:50:17 AM
There's just so much genius in this plan that I'm simply amazed at the brilliance. :D

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-25/the-japanese-government-is-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-get-its-people-to-have-more-sex (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-25/the-japanese-government-is-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-get-its-people-to-have-more-sex)

I love Japan of all the places in the world it has the most concentrated Genius and insanity per capita

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“I want to tell them that human women are also great fun!”

Morinaga Takuro

Legends are born this way

@ Ramsay
I'm not sure where I saw this but I think it was some youtube video about how the majority of young folk over there would rather not have sex and/or get into relationships, particularly younger women. They would spend their night on the town going to parlors (for instance) where they would drink their booze while having a male escort of sorts just sort of hang out with them rather than them looking to hook up at a bar. And, there was something about how some guys would just go to a parlor and pay to lay down next a chick and just kind of spoon rather than using that money to take some chick out in hopes of continuing a relationship or try to have sex. I dug up something close to what I saw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9tUXNecLU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9tUXNecLU)

I'm pretty certain you were watching a Vice video can't find the exact one but this is close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhr6N-c8as

Edit Found it:
How could I forget this wonderful trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLUKct85as

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The Japanese Love Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpZbu7J7UL4


Title: Re: Handsome Tax in Japan?
Post by: CryptoTrout on January 28, 2015, 03:39:19 PM
Why not a tax on single women, to give them a push?  ;)

i vote for this guy