Has Japanese society always been sexually open?

In fact, Japan's attitude towards sex has a tradition since ancient times. We can't say anything about "openness" or "liberation" because it has hardly been suppressed or closed.

Japan is located in an island country, and natural disasters are frequent, which has caused the ideological origin of impermanence of life and carpe diem in national character. From heian period's literary works such as Tale of Genji and Shencaozi, we can see the lewd life of Japanese officials at that time. Since ancient times, there are many stories about sex in Japanese myths and legends. For example, the birth of SHEN WOO, the empress of Qin Shihuang, is a pornographic story-! Chamberlain, a British scholar studying in Japan in the early Meiji period, tried to translate the Japanese myth and historical classic Ji Gu into English. As a result, the translation was mistaken for pornographic novels by the publishing house, leaving an interesting story.

Japanese worship nature, and sex is also worshipped as a part of nature. Since the agricultural era, in order to increase the working population, adultery is extremely common in rural areas and is encouraged in disguise. Women's chastity has never been valued, and widows don't feel guilty about remarriage. In ancient times, the phenomenon of mixed bathing between men and women also existed for a long time.

However, after the rise of Wushe to the Edo era, the degree of sexual openness in Japan was suppressed to a certain extent, especially after Edo, influenced by Neo-Confucianism and Bushido spirit in Song and Ming Dynasties, the tendency of demanding women to be single-minded still existed for a long time. The spirit of Bushido requires the samurai to devote their lives to the Lord, while the requirement for women is to regard their husbands as their own masters. Therefore, the social status of Japanese women has long been very low. But men's infidelity and extramarital sex are unrestricted. So this suppression is not very serious.

Even after the United States opened the door to Japan by force, westerners still have the impression of "promiscuity" about Japanese life. Since modern times, Japan has been deeply influenced by western culture, and the content of sexual liberation has hit it off with its own tradition of sexual openness. The sexual atmosphere in Japanese society is out of control. By the 1970s and 1980s, sex culture as an industry had been linked to economic interests, which led to the proliferation of Japanese pornography all over the world. Therefore, the degree of sexual openness in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s was not much worse than it is now.