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Bangkok Post
Lifestyle

Breaking barriers

Japan is known for many things, and its rich and robust culture attracts people from around the world. Besides food, movies and manga, the country also has a reputation for having one of the biggest pornographic and adult-toy industries in the world. While sex is a natural thing, Thailand is rarely open about it because we view it as taboo, vulgar and immoral. But whether you admit it or not, we have all seen 18+ content from Japan at some point in our life.

It's quite an irony. Despite being a very conservative country, Japan is liberal and open-minded in some aspects, especially when it comes to sex. It's a place where TV commercials feature sexually suggestive themes, and where there is a massive seven-floor department store selling sex goods in the centre of Tokyo. It's also a place that has its own annual fertility festival that parades giant penis sculptures down a busy street every April. This begs the question of why the country is so open about sex when it is also a very conservative nation?

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