JAPAN 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Asexuality, Akiko Yosano, Salaryman
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An overview of the japanese sex life in 1900s. Sexual ethnology and the escape from western puritanism. Friedrich solomon krauss writes book on tokyo sex life and its morals. Descriptions of female and male genitalia, and topics he found sexual. Thought that just seeing things from the military"s/economy"s perspectives were insufficient. More men could only be developed through women. Wanted to provide people pure facts, reality instead of searching for a. Fought to gain more knowledge about women grander meaning to sexuality. Late 1800s, japan began to see phallus-related festivals as uncivilized. Japanese sex researchers were pushed aside their european counterparts because they advocated for birth control and legalization of abortion. Western books read extensively in japan, but not vice versa. As a result, the japanese became heavily influenced by western sexuality. 1912, purity society demanded better treatment of sex workers to protect the health of japanese men.
