Sex — you can’t buy it, can’t look at it on the Internet, can’t force your spouse to have it, many wives complain they don’t get enough of it, although many younger unmarried women and college kids certainly are.
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When women do get around to having sex they don’t wanna bother with birth control. That sounds really lazy (no flaming please, just thinking outloud). I’m assuming Korea doesn’t yet have the outrageous single-mother/palimony laws like the USA?
Speaking of single-mothers taking over the world, Japan going to have TONS of single-mothers soon. J-land just passed a law for wives to get half of their husband’s money AND pension in a divorce after 10-years of marriage. The next step (it was in the US, and it will be in Japan) is over-the-top support for single-mothers.
Enjoy the nice days while they last…
And stock up on ‘doms
I guess you could say that it’s from laziness, but I would attribute it to a lack of sex education, or just a lack of openness when it comes to discussing sex. From my experiences living in a home stay with adolescent girls, and working at a girls’ high school, I wouldn’t be surprised if most girls leave high school never having had a conversation with an adult about sex or birth control. I’ve also heard that birth control pills can be difficult to acquire if you’re unmarried.
Scott - Abortion is a big business here in Korea, just as it is over there. Unprotected sex equals more abortions, not more single mothers.
Scott - By over there, I mean Japan.
At what point did being an umarried mother signal the end of society?
When men are afraid of women…of being her slave, paying her one half of all he earns.
If you do this twice, you could starve to death. (You are in the same boat as the people in NK). Run to China.
Oral contraception is insanely easy to get in Korea. I explained this to my girlfriend who was completely unaware of it. All she had to do was go to the nearest pharmacy and ask for it, they gave it to her without question.
In my informed but not expert opinion, Korea’s “AIDS crisis” will be like the United States’ or Japan’s — i.e., a serious health problem for some sectors, but not one threatening to destroy the country like in some African countries. Even the problems in China and Thailand are not really comparable to Korea. The reason is that Korea does not have an intravenous drug-using culture; in China and Southeast Asia there are a lot of IV drug users. Instead, Koreans get fucked up on alcohol, pills, or smokable drugs. The IV drug user is one of the primary links between the high-risk homosexual population and the much lower-risk heterosexual population (it’s easy for a woman to get AIDS from a man, much harder for the man to get AIDS from a woman). The other, of course, is the secret homosexual — of which there are a lot in Korea. This is probably where Korea’s greatest risk lies.
I hate to admit getting medical advice from Oprah, but I saw an episode of her show where black women were discussing their dismay at discovering their man living life “on the down low” as a secret homosexual or bisexual. Apparently among American blacks, it’s much harder to admit being gay than it is for white guys. A good many of these women on Oprah discovered their man’s secret life after the women were diagnosed, inexplicably, as HIV-positive. This made a lot of sense to me, and I immediately thought of Korea’s largely closeted gay population, pressured to marry and have children. These guys are also hooking up on the down low.
Statistics published from time to time about Korea’s new AIDS patients, assuming the government reporting is reliable, have new male AIDS infections outnumbering females 12-to-1 (something like 900+ males to 70-something females). Yet 90% of the infections reported were from “heterosexual intercourse”. There’s something fishy about that explanation. AIDS researchers in the United States suspect that a lot of reports of heterosexual infections are in fact untruthful, with men ashamed to say that there was some homosexual conduct possibly involved in the infection.
When men are afraid of women?€?of being her slave, paying her one half of all he earns.
Sounds more like the general bit of insecurity that comes with diminished social dominance to me.
Memetics
Never have, never will.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01747.html
Never have, never will.
You’re in the V-club, is what you’re saying?
not only is proper education a big downfall in korea but so is women’s empowerment.
(http://times.hankooki.com/lpag......htmgirls/)
women need to be encouraged to have the guts to insist that their boyfriends use condoms during intercourse. they need to be told that it is their right to mandate so and they need to be educated on how to resist the pressure and simply walk away should their partner refuse. (which won’t happen. if they stand their ground, the man will eventually–even if he is reluctant–listen to her. i think it’s safe to say that hormones will win out in the end and the man will agree to wear a condom if the woman insists on it.)
likewise, men here also need to be taught basic health issues regarding sex and how condoms can be beneficial to them as well.
although things are changing, this is still a very male-dominated culture and a sincere effort needs to be made to teach women in particular how to take a stand.
…When men are afraid of women?€?of being her slave, paying her one half of all he earns [forever]…
Absolutely correct.
Sounds more like the general bit of insecurity that comes with diminished social dominance to me.
I’m not being harsh, William, but it sounds like you haven’t been in the USA for at least 5 years.
For those not familiar with the male-bashing laws in the USA, here are the cold facts:
1) A man can be forced to pay child-support even if the child is PROVEN to be NOT HIS. For example, a woman can say “William G” is the father, and William G kinda, sorta matches the description, the innocent man is on the hook for 18+ years. This situation is most often exercised in the state of California, and this scenario was recently outlined by journalist Mark Steyn.
2) A man can be forced to pay child-support for some single-mother’s kid if that single-mother thinks the man is a better paycheck than the original sperm donor. All she needs to say is that the child sees the man as a ‘father figure’ and that innocent man is on the hook. The is a more recent law, actively enforced in Washington State (the state next to Vancouver, BC for those who don’t know).
If I can find the link again I’ll post the article.
Thanks for the lesson in hyperbole.
Okay, hyperbole is too strong.
To put it in another way:
A crack commando unit CAN be sent to jail for a crime they didn’t commit. They CAN escape to the LA underground, and they CAN survive as soldiers of fortune. And if you have a problem, and if you CAN find them, maybe you CAN hire them.
“Thanks for the lesson in hyperbole.”
For the lesson in reality, you are quite welcome.
As for the hyperbole, there’s none there at all. That’s the sad part of it all.
As a rebuttal to it being illegal to pay for sex:
Sex is never free. Even if you take a woman (or man for that matter) out on a date, you pay for it. Even if you don’t pay with money, you still have to invest time and energy.
Marriage is the highest form of prostitution. You pay for LIFE!
Last time I checked…Marraige (and sex between husband and wife) was still legal
The article about college students has this funny translation:
“58.5 percent of women fingered friends”. The whole sentence makes sense in a non-sexual way, but I had to read it twice to get it. Then again, maybe that’s because it’s 3 AM….
wolfking_wa,
Marriage is not prostitution. Rather, it is a contract.
“Love and honor in times of illness or misfortune…”
However, these days after a man slaves for five days and comes home on Friday evening exhausted, a woman is singing
“What have you done for me lately?”
Even Korean women who used to be a loyal partner and a co-worker to build a home history(I cannot find the right word for this concept in English) are now fantasizing about a greener pasture via divorce. Newspapers, magazines and TV soap operas are daring women to be strong and kick out weak husbands and look for more exciting possibilities.
Western idea of women’s lib has invaded Korea. Korea used to be quiet and ethical society deeply rooted in Confucianism. Men used to men(Ahaaaaa~~~Tarzan call) here. Now, we are clowns just like men in the western society.