Sexlessness in Japanese Fiction
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Today we'll explore two trends in contemporary Japanese fiction:
- Protagonists who don’t want to have sex
- And women who want to have babies anyway.
To take a closer look at these trends, we’re going to ask a couple of questions about contemporary Japan:
- What is “celibacy syndrome”? Does it even exist?
- What role does motherhood play in a shrinking society?
- And how do sexlessness and motherhood play out in 21st-century Japanese fiction?
We’ll end with a closer look at Mieko Kawakami’s best-selling novel, Breasts and Eggs.
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