At a glance, First Dash is just a regular Tokyo bar. Customers laugh and drink, their animated chatter competing with the monotonous beat of techno thumping through speakers hovering somewhere above dimmed, orange-tinted lights. The customer — a portly, balding middle-aged man in a nondescript suit — shuffles over to a table followed by a slightly built teenage lad, ruffled locks partly shielding a furtive, floor-fixed stare. Usually they are masochists who want me to be, well, you know, domineering. While some want nothing more than a bit of company over dinner, others want a whole lot more, performing acts that in some cases could be argued verge on abuse, even rape.
Almost half of single young men and women in Japan are virgins. In a country where birth rates are crashing, the stats have been blamed on everything from anime to porn and women not pulling their weight. Watch the full documentary, Sex in Japan: Dying for Company. The name of the restaurant is a reference to the "ideal Japanese female" - a lady of tradition, of feminine grace and domesticity.
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In his free time he goes for a workout or to receive a form of massage known as shiatsu that relieves his aching muscles with gentle finger pressure. He likes to eat out with his friends. Suicide remains the leading cause of death for those aged 15 to But compared with their elders in Japan when they were young, a higher proportion of to year-olds describe themselves as content.