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Court in Japan rules that paying for sex is not adultery in landmark ruling
International Business Times ^ | 06/13/2015 | Taku Dzimwasha

Posted on 06/13/2015 10:38:00 AM PDT by aimhigh

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To: aimhigh

Has someone informed God he got it wrong?


21 posted on 06/13/2015 11:10:03 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: aimhigh

Japan is a totally alien culture. Don’t try and apply western values because the cultural motivations are often wildly different.


22 posted on 06/13/2015 11:18:19 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

LOL!

I nearly had to look around for someone to do a Heimlich on me as I read that!


23 posted on 06/13/2015 11:18:25 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Erections have consequences.”

Consequences but not Consciences.


24 posted on 06/13/2015 11:25:05 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: JJ_Folderol

“Japan is a totally alien culture. Don’t try and apply western values because the cultural motivations are often wildly different.”

Except they use a form of the Napoleonic Code which is a modernization of Roman Law.


25 posted on 06/13/2015 11:30:49 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Jeff Chandler
Erections have consequences.

Spluttt! Normally, I'd say you owe me a new keyboard, but it's worse than that... I'm using my new laptop.

26 posted on 06/13/2015 11:34:20 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Erections have consequences.”

I was in Japan the day after Bill Clinton won his first election. It was a meeting with NEC. One of our hosts, over the pre-meeting coffee asked me: “preeeze to tell us about President Crinton’s ERECTION! There was a lot of coffee on the table after that remark!


27 posted on 06/13/2015 11:36:58 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: aimhigh

In this case, the ruling is fairly narrow and regards civil suits.

Japan has home wrecker laws like parts of the United States once did. A person who forms a relationship with someone who is married and woos them away from their spouse (or causes the spouse to divorce them on the grounds of infidelity) can be held find fiscally liable for maintenance of the former spouse and any children.

So this ruling just clarifies that in the case of prostitution (which is often not voluntary) the fiscal onus is all on the married buy sexual.

Does it make more sense if you look at it in context?


28 posted on 06/13/2015 11:48:44 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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I guess I am the straight man on the thread.


29 posted on 06/13/2015 11:52:00 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: aimhigh

That is ridiculous ad absurd

The judge should quit in shame


30 posted on 06/13/2015 11:52:20 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Cicero

Or a wife who sleeps with every man in town but pays them 1 yen apiece...

Sorry, that’s a business transaction. It’s not adultery. Nonsense!


31 posted on 06/13/2015 11:53:02 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA

Gives “Penny for your thoughts” new meaning.


32 posted on 06/13/2015 11:55:47 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: CitizenUSA
Here is photo of the judge


33 posted on 06/13/2015 11:56:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MrEdd

Are you saying a woman who “steals” another woman’s husband can be financially liable to take care of the wife and children? That would explain the ruling. A prostitute isn’t “stealing” away the woman’s husband.


34 posted on 06/13/2015 11:58:36 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA

There was a time when some states had laws like that here.

Coupled with the absence of no fault divorce laws it was tough on philanderers who got caught. Of course, back in those noncomputerized days deadbeats could move across the country and take up a new identity.


35 posted on 06/13/2015 12:07:39 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: JJ_Folderol
Japan is a totally alien culture. Don’t try and apply western values because the cultural motivations are often wildly different.

Exactly...while not referring to Japan as an example here (we know there are far worse), you cannot compare American Christian Conservative values to cultures that belong in a petri dish.

36 posted on 06/13/2015 12:21:04 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: windcliff

When the last Japanese die off, the world won’t care.


37 posted on 06/13/2015 12:24:12 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: aimhigh

More proof: Nuking a country makes them very weird.


38 posted on 06/13/2015 1:24:47 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We're 15% less evil than the Democrats!!!")
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To: aimhigh

Honey, I’m going to go out and get a $100 box of crackerjacks. There is a special prize in every box.


39 posted on 06/13/2015 9:32:15 PM PDT by tdscpa
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To: JJ_Folderol
Japan is a totally alien culture. Don’t try and apply western values because the cultural motivations are often wildly different.

I agree. When is the last time *our soldiers* ate their POW's?
40 posted on 06/14/2015 8:27:39 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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