In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of
love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body
of evidence 2,700 court opinions describes a society characterized
by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy,
affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and
sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges
frequently opine on whether a person is in love, what other
emotions a person is feeling, and whether those emotions are
appropriate for the situation.
Sometimes judges' views about love, sex, and marriage emerge
from their presentation of the facts of cases. Among the recurring
elements are abortions forced by men, compensated dating, late-life
divorces, termination fees to end affairs, sexless couples,
Valentine's Day heartbreak, "soapland" bath-brothels, and
home-wrecking hostesses.
Sometimes the judges' analysis, decisions, and commentary are as
revealing as the facts. Sex in the cases is a choice among private
"normal" sex, which is male-dominated, conservative, dispassionate,
or nonexistent; commercial sex, which caters to every fetish but is
said to lead to rape, murder, and general social depravity; and a
hybrid of the two, which commodifies private sexual relationships.
Marriage is contractual; judges express the ideal of love in
marriage and proclaim its importance, but virtually no one in the
court cases achieves it. Love usually appears as a tragic,
overwhelming emotion associated with jealousy, suffering,
heartache, and death."
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