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>>1391345

Both have their good points... I'd choose whichever one would let me fuck them silly.

So this explains, then, why incest is treated in a much more even-handed and ambiguous way in Japanese media. It is interesting to the Japanese precisely because it is something they can sympathize with, while at the same time they recognize the uncomfortable problems it can cause. For them, Incest is not merely a sexy and taboo addition to a story, something to add sleazy thrill to cheap pulp fiction, but a disturbing examination of a microcosm of the Japanese mindset taken to its extreme. Koi Kaze is not trashy- it's a serious, brooding commentary on the state of the collective Japanese soul.

A story like Koi Kaze would never work in western mainstream culture- it would be viewed as pretentious trash or exploitive garbage. In western culture you can only portray incestuous characters as insane or villainous. It's one of the few acts left that is actually still considered truly wrong in our relativistic culture.

So now you know.

Why does Japan love incest?