Oh, come ON! 2-D LOVE. The Japanese obsession with body pillows as partners.
I don't know how our humanity hasbecome so lost...
I will give you the headline and a photo, with some of my favorite quotes.. but click on the headline for the full article at THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Love in 2-D
By LISA KATAYAMA
For some Japanese men like Nisan, a relationship with a body-pillowgirlfriend based on a comic-book character now takes the place of the real thing.
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When I joined the couple for lunch at their favorite all-you-can-eat salad bar in the Tokyo suburb of Hachioji, he insisted on being called only by this new nickname, addressing his body-pillow girlfriend using the suffix “tan” to show how much he adored her. Nemutan is 10, maybe12 years old and wears a little blue bikini and gold ribbons in her hair. Nisan knows she’s not real, but that hasn’t stopped him from loving her just the same. “Of course she’s my girlfriend,” he said,widening his eyes as if shocked by the question. “I have real feelings for her.”
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“Pure love is completely gone in the real world,” Honda wrote. “As long as you train your imagination, a 2-D relationship is much more passionate than a 3-D one.” Honda insists that he’s advocating not prurience but a whole new kind of romance. If, as some researchers suggest, romantic love can be broken down into electrical impulses inthe brain, then why not train the mind to simulate those signals while looking at an inanimate character?
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“I was steps away from getting married,” he explained earnestly when prodded about his experience. “You have to make sure you don’t hurt areal person; you have to watch what you say, and you have to keep your room clean. In Japan, it’s not O.K. to like another person if you’re already with somebody else. With an anime character, you can like one character one day and a different character the next.”
Oh my God!!!!!!! That's awesome!!!!!!!!!
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