[P2P-F] Fwd: BBC Article : virtual girlfriends ? ( Japanese games )

[Tom Walker]

"A survey... found..." Surveys don't "find" anything. People who conduct
surveys infer "findings" from them.


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:

>
> *'A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2010 found
> 36% of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 had no interest in sex - a figure that
> had doubled in the space of two years.'
>
> *
> That is indeed worrying!  These 'non alpha males' are unlikely to respond
> to the sexual cues that pervade advertising, and so are unlikely to play
> their part in keeping the consumer culture going. Oh dear!.
>
> Anna
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM
>> Subject: BBC Article : virtual girlfriends ? ( Japanese games )
>> To:
>>
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830
>>
>> *This girlfriend is actually a Nintendo computer game called Love Plus,
>> which comes as a small portable tablet. *
>>
>> Nurikan and Yuge take their girlfriends, Rinko and Ne-ne, on actual dates
>> to the park, and buy them cakes to celebrate their birthdays.
>>
>> Nurikan says he keeps Rinko a secret from his wife, and hopes he never
>> has to choose between them.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> They are a generation of geeks who have grown up through 20 years of
>> economic stagnation and have chosen to tune out and immerse themselves in
>> their own fantasy worlds.
>>
>>  It seems they no longer have the ambition of the post-war alpha males
>> who made Japan such an economic powerhouse and no interest in joining a
>> company and becoming a salary man.
>>
>> They have taken on a mole-like existence and, worryingly, withdrawn from
>> relationships with the opposite sex.
>>
>> A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2010 found 36%
>> of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 had no interest in sex - a figure that had
>> doubled in the space of two years.
>>
>>
>>
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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