There was a (seemingly) faked survey in a young mens fashion magazine I read that proposed to be a survey of a few hundred women about their sexual habits and wishes. Well, I assume fake, but maybe 70% of young Japanese women really want a threesome, and more than half are eager to try anal sex. A women's magazine I read on the same subject seemed to suggest some really, really different numbers.

It strikes me that it was intended to be used by young men as a tool to pressure their girlfriends into doing something that "everyone thinks is normal". Which, I admit, is pretty clever, both for selling magazines, and manipulating women into things they wouldn't normally want to do.

I saw a sex poll in Hot Dog Press back when I worked at Kodansha that had similar numbers: "number who want to have sex with a foreigner: 7%" compared to the anal sex crew at 30% or so.

Numbers are objective and paint the voice of the people - how can you resist!

So today you humble yourself becoming a translator when you could have had a field day with the denki incident. nice..

more on the topic. does anyone have any clues as to how stuff like doubutsu uranai, yamanote uranai, morningmusume uranai etc is created?

the denki incident

Help, I'm trapped in a blog between postings! Someone get me out of here!

Uranai - um, they just make it up?

They consult the stars. And then the production companies.

um, they just make it up?

they often touch quite spot-on on nihon no switch which suggests a complex process. (in yamanotesen uranai i'm sooo ebisu it's uncanny :-)