There I saw an old poll regarding sex and the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Programme.
The results - presented below - shocked me. I had no idea I was in the minority amongst my fellow JETs... but I guess one can't ignore the fact that enough people voted - and perhaps voted honestly. Of course, this vote was conducted back in 2005-2006 - a good 12 years after I left Japan... so perhaps things changed quite a bit in the ensuing years - for the negative! Oh! Japan! Don't you love your gaijin (foreigners) any more? Perhaps a return visit by yours truly is needed to set things right!
Here's the poll - and here are the results:
Jet Poll - From December 2005 - April 2006
Since I arrived in Japan, my sex life has:
Not Changed - 33.1%
Exploded (I'm a boy) - 23.6%
Collapsed! (I'm a girl) - 23.6%
Collapsed! (I'm a boy) - 23.4%
Exploded (I'm a girl) - 8.7%
Total votes = 769Hmm, I guess I was doing better than all right while over there - perhaps because I shared myself with my fellow female JET workers - as well as the Japanese women.
I think part of the problem is that they only seemed to ask boys and girls (The parenthesis was included in the poll). Perhaps if they asked men and women there might have been differing results. Of course... the 'Not Changed' results could have been fantastically high to begin with. In my case, since I had never had sex before arriving in Japan, any positive result could be considered an explosion.
By the end of my three years, I slept with 28 different women. And that's with me having two solid girlfriends for six and eight months respectively. And... I only asked one woman out.
Perhaps I ruined everything for everybody else? My bad - but so not true. I recall so many of us guys having Japanese girlfriends - Hell, Matthew & Jeff both married gorgeous Japanese women before the end of the three year mark! Of course, I am only assuming they had premarital sex.
Despite not having a plan when I arrived in Japan - or at any time through my three years there - my plan worked! Confusing? Yes... but that's what this blog is all about!
More fun and frivolity to come (no pun intended... well, maybe I did intend the pun!).
Somewhere with a grin the Cheshire Cat is envious of,
Andrew Joseph
Today's blog title is by Hot Chocolate for some many obvious reasons - the name of the band, plus the lyrics! WHEREYOUFROM?
PS: The Cheshire Cat is from the novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (his real name is Charles Dodgson... he was the DoDo in the story. As Charles was a stutterer... whenever he introduced himself it was as "Do-Do-Do-Dodgson"). It's my favourite book - I have five different copies - one from 1905, and took a university course examining the books. I ended up with a BA degree... which was a requirement of the JET Programme... so you could say Alice's Adventures In Wonderland helped me get to Japan and thus helped spawn this blog.
