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Lars Lust

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I guess I'm not the only person surprised by the recent debate about the age of consent in Japan. Apparently it's 13 according to a law from 1907. What's really going on? We all know that's not the case - or is 18 years only for sex work? Or are there local regulations? Or other laws in play? It was upsetting to read about the case with the father who raped (or at least sexually abused) his 13 years old daughter. It went to court where he was cleared because the girl could not prove that it was not consensual. A 13-year old girl and her father! How bizarre. We need your help to understand here @Sudsy
 
That’s the national age of consent, every prefecture has some form of law that restricts sexual activity to 18 and older. Nagano was the last hold out, if I recall correctly.

There is also the law against interfering with parental responsibility, which makes sex with anybody under 20 a risky proposition, especially if you have them out overnight or are taking them out of the municipality they live in.
 
It was upsetting to read about the case with the father who raped (or at least sexually abused) his 13 years old daughter. It went to court where he was cleared because the girl could not prove that it was not consensual. A 13-year old girl and her father! How bizarre.

Actually, he's got 10 years in prison.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13909303

De facto age of consent is 18 years old by the Child Welfare Act Article 34, Para 1, Item 6.
 
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Wasn't much of a budding legal expert during my early 20s in Japan, but was always told that anything under 20 was begging for legal trouble, depending on individual prefectural/municipal laws. And this came up, of course, because there was a smoking hot 18yo H.S. senior at our eikaiwa who was practically begging for it and we were all counting down the days till graduation until the branch manager intervened.

I suppose it shows my age but the older I get, the less attractive teen girls are. Immature, awful in bed, deplorable personal hygiene (particularly down south) and they get pregnant if you fucking sneeze on them. Show me a horny 45yo jogger with a nice tan, battle-scar creases on her outer labia and freckles between her titties and I'm good to go.
 
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I always thought that is a law only in Tokyo?

It's nationwide - parents have to file a report and demand charges, though.
 
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In around 2003 3am on a wednesday in that little park outside gaspanic roppongi i was making out with a young lady, she was good to go home with me.

her friend walked over to us and said (in english, i didnt speak japanese at the time); she’s ****teen years old, are you sure you wanna do this?

im pretty sure i owe that friend my freedom (or at least my visa)
 
In around 2003 3am on a wednesday in that little park outside gaspanic roppongi i was making out with a young lady, she was good to go home with me.

her friend walked over to us and said (in english, i didnt speak japanese at the time); she’s ****teen years old, are you sure you wanna do this?

im pretty sure i owe that friend my freedom (or at least my visa)

I'll take "Sentences that make you sober up real quick" for 500
 
In around 2003 3am on a wednesday in that little park outside gaspanic roppongi i was making out with a young lady, she was good to go home with me.

her friend walked over to us and said (in english, i didnt speak japanese at the time); she’s ****teen years old, are you sure you wanna do this?

im pretty sure i owe that friend my freedom (or at least my visa)

Seriously, did something happen in 2003--something supernatural, maybe the stars aligned or some other cosmic phenomenon--that lured the worst of the world's perverts and degenerates to Japan? Spring '03 here, and I know there are a couple others on TAG.

I had a somewhat similar experience coming home on the train one night, although not nearly as exciting. I was coming home from my regular bar, nice and toasted and quietly reading some random novel. Young girl, and not bad looking but obviously a teen, gets on the train, sits down on my right and I notice she's watching me read my novel. After a minute or so, she pipes up, in surprisingly good English and with an obviously American accent:

"CAN YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE READING? OR ARE YOU JUST PRETENDING?"

I don't like being bothered on trains and I'm an irritable drunk, so I reply, in English: "I SHOULD FUCKING HOPE SO, OR I WASTED 900 YEN AT KINOKUNIYA."

I guess that wasn't the sort of answer the wiseass little twat was hoping for, so she goes quiet for a bit. But that shit just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I still had a good buzz going, plus I get angry very easily when someone interrupts me while reading, so I decided to push things a bit.

Me: "WHY ARE YOU BOTHERING ME? WHAT...YOU WANNA FUCK? MY APARTMENT IS A COUPLE STOPS AWAY."

Her: "UMMM...I'M A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT!"

Me: "WELL, I'M A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, SO WE'RE A PERFECT MATCH! YOU STILL A VIRGIN?"

The look on her face was worth it. At this point I figured I was courting trouble, plus my stop was coming up, so I got up to move to the next car but I couldn't just leave it like that.

"NOT SURE IF YOU LEARNED THIS DURING YOUR STAY IN MY COUNTRY BUT IN AMERICA WE CALL GIRLS LIKE YOU 'CUNTS.' GO LOOK THAT UP IN YOUR FUCKING DICTIONARY WHEN YOU GET HOME."

I actually think about that girl from time to time. She'd be about 30 now. Wonder where she ended up in life. My guess is she found some weak, dickless English teacher at a language exchange program and forced him to bring her back with him stateside to some shithole like Akron, OH, where she spends her days taking cunty selfies with her cats and captions like "LOVIN' LIFE IN AMERICA!" and posting them up on social media for all five of her friends to see. Even sadder that just the memory is still irritating me all these years later. Another vodka soda should fix that.
 
Since 20 is the legal drinking age in Japan, that seems like a good guideline as others have mentioned.
 
Since 20 is the legal drinking age in Japan, that seems like a good guideline as others have mentioned.

Then again they are just about to change it to 18. Just saying. :p
 
So all the university students will be able to drink, finally!

Except not in the campuses, most of those are off limits regardless of the age.
 
Since 20 is the legal drinking age in Japan, that seems like a good guideline as others have mentioned.

Oh, come on. The legal drinking age is 21 in the states. How many times we hid kegs when the campus police raided parties...
 
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It's fairly clear what you can do in Japan.

Look at the porn industry. Open to anyone over 18, who is not an actual high school student.
SD sites. Anyone can register if they are over 18.

The big issue is the ones that fake an ID and are under 18.

Personally don't have much interest in anyone under about 25 anyway.
 
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Oh, come on. The legal drinking age is 21 in the states. How many times we hid kegs when the campus police raided parties...

Certainly, the drinking age in the USA is too high at 21. It actually used to be 18 before MADD’s intense lobbying efforts. Personally, I think that if someone can vote at 18, then he/she should be able to legally drink at 18.

Of course, in some parts of Europe people can legally drink at lower ages like 16.
 
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Meh, old enough to pee is old enough for me. Maybe should have posted this in the dark adult section :p
 
Certainly, the drinking age in the USA is too high at 21. It actually used to be 18 before MADD’s intense lobbying efforts. Personally, I think that if someone can vote at 18, then he/she should be able to legally drink at 18.

Of course, in some parts of Europe people can legally drink at lower ages like 16.

I always said that if an 18yo kid is old enough to sign away his life, fight, kill and possibly die for his country, he's old enough for a beer when he gets home. Besides, it's not like arbitrary laws are going to stop kids from drinking. Doesn't stop them from smoking, fucking or getting high. Then again, I'm not much of a poster child for teen responsibility. In all honestly, I had way more sex, drank way more beer and got high and drove drunk way more often when I was 16 than when I was 21...or at any other time in my life, for that matter. I like to think I was a trailblazer, but the shitty truth is that I was just lucky to have survived my teens.
 
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but the shitty truth is that I was just lucky to have survived my teens.
Yeah...But that's not reason to punish us now!:p

But c'mon guys! Why is this such a big deal?
Who wants to sleep with super young chicks anyway.

While I'm never gonna berate a girl on the train like our friend @Keihan did, I'm also never gonna go for someone that would even question if they were too young.

I broke my rule and set up a date with a 19yr old on SD about a month a go and got stood up. I only did it cos there is very little on the site from the area I live in. But on reflection I'm glad I didn't meet her. Got my parameters on SD set to over 25 only
 
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Who wants to sleep with super young chicks anyway.

Yeah, they charge so much there is no sleeping, it's all action until the timer goes off.

Nyah, just kidding. I didn't have sexual relations with the last 19 year old I was with. She just sucked my dick.

For anything longer though I am with you, my lower limit is actually 28. Starting from around that age the Japanese girls have own opinions and might have interesting things to say between rounds.