If you pay for it, is it adultery?

[exploited]

Painful.

[wormwood]

Oh god the white knightery and eurocentrism here is appalling. Refusing to be cowed into submission to weak western values, Japan is a culture where men can still be men. In such a culture, men don't really commit adultery, they have dalliances and moments of supra-marital male conquest. Each man is a shogun unto himself and a shogun takes what he wants. You guys make it seem so dirty. "He was unfaithful to his wife"...he wasn't unfaithful to his wife, he was faithful to himself. To thine own self be true. He doesn't just know those words, he lives them, and sometimes being true to yourself means banging a prostitute. Just ask foadi.

You guys have let the feminists and limp wristed liberals tell you that maleness is badness and have created some horrible neo-slut shaming aimed at men and their natural instincts toward conquest and victory. What happened to sexual liberation and tolerance for other sexual lifestyles? Check your privilege, or in the case of some of you, ask your wives if it's ok for you to check your privilege.

And I'm sure someone will posit the "clever" argument that, "well if your wife did that would it be adultery?" Of course it would, but women have only themselves to blame for the appearance of double standard here. Women are the ones constantly insisting that sex inherently carries an emotional component. When they seek outside sex they feel something for the person and are thus cheaters. Inversely, men have no such hang ups about sex and the utility of a prostitute is that you don't have to care about them or feel anything. I think that the Japanese courts made a brave and manly decision, just like the defendant.

[exploited]

lol what

[Saz]

[exploited]

If that were ironic or self-aware, I'd agree.

...But I have this feeling that wormwood actually meant that.

In which case, whoa.

[Medius]

[Saz]

[NAB]

[Spider]

Yep. Top shelf.

[eric]

God I love this place sometimes