How conservative the Japanese people really is? And the gove...

I sometimes feel people from the West are obsessed with those “gender” and “sex” things too much. Let’s think about something else sometimes. It’s unhealthy.

In the old era, gay relationships were very common and were even praised among the privileged social classes, such as Samurai and monks.

This is a very vague question. But considering the asker’s comment on Mr. Nakajima’s answer, your interest seems to be in sex-related matters (I don’t think it’s the only indicator of conservative/ progressive, though).

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I’ve heard it’s always the male side that is expected to take a move in some countries. It’s not the case in Japan.

They don’t bring around their mates everywhere, which means they don’t worry about being single, gay, or whatever because no one cares about whom others are having/ not having sex with.

Yaoi

How did the trans issue metastasize within just a decade from being a question of kindness and tolerance to a tiny minority to convulsing a whole society?

How do you see these below?

Moreover, buff guys are often avoided for their narcissism.

Visual-kei

If everyone hates censorship so much, why do those “censorship-free” alternative social media sites always fail?

It’s very common for a girl/ woman to ask a boy/ man to be her boyfriend.

They don’t have the value that “guys must be macho.”

They don’t have the so-called “couple culture” seen in many Western countries.

Is fellatio addictive?

They were very similar to the bromance of today but accompanied by sexual intercourse.

“None of my business” is the common attitude.