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The Insensitive Man
: A Philosophical Essay on Male Sexuality
(2005)

Masahiro Morioka

A fascinating book on male sexuality, especially men's sexual insensitivity, men's self-denial about their bodies, and their desire of little girls and school uniforms. How to escape from being an insensitive man? An epoch-making book in men's studies.

This book was published in February 2005, and various responses have appeared on the net. Many book reviews appeared in newspapers and magazines. English translation is under way. If you know any publishers who might have an interest in the English version of this book, please send email to us. 30,000 copies have been sold.

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Preface

Chapter 1  If Only They Wear Mini-skirts We don't Need Flesh-and-Blood Women Any More!?

Chapter 2  Men Who Turn Their Eyes Away from "Male Frigidity"

  Section 1  What is "Male Frigidity"?
  Section 2  The Analysis of the Sense of "Something is Gathering There"
  Section 3  What is Pornography for Men?

Chapter 3  Why am I Attracted to School Uniforms?
  Section 1  The Structure of the Mind of Men Who are Attracted to School Uniforms
  Section 2  Seeing "School" through Girls Wearing Uniforms
  Section 3  Solution of the Mistery of School Uniforms

Chapter 4  Investigating the Mind of Rorikon (Lolikon) Men (Men Who Love Little girls)
  Section 1  The Deep Reality of Japan as Rorikon Wonderland
  Section 2  Sophisticated Packaging of "Girls" as Commodities
  Section 3  Why Rorikon Men Desire Girls?

Chapter 5  How to Escape from being an "Insensitive Man"?
  Section 1  The Experience of "Ejaculation" and a Sense of Self-denial
  Section 2  How I became an "Insensitive Man"
  Section 3  First, Admit "Male Frigidity"

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Summary

In this book I talked a lot about my own sexuality because the topic of sexuality is very personal, hence it is almost useless to talk about men's "general" sexuality. As a "professor" it was tough work to write my own sexuality, but anyway I did it, and I presented some very unique analyses of why such sexuality has been constructed in me. This is a book of confession and its deep philosophical analysis.

I don't want to write the detailed contents of this book here. I presume you can imagine them from the table of contents above. The main topics are (1) the analysis of men's sexual insensitivity based on "male frigidity," and (2) the analysis of why many men have a (sub-consciouss) desire toward little girls around the age 12 or so, especially those girls who wear school uniforms (in Japan we call it "rorikon" or "seifuku fetishism". Remember Japanese anime).

Readers should note that the term "male frigidity" in this book is completely different from that in sex therapy. In this book, "male frigidity" means a mental, existential state after ejaculation, which may deeply influence men's sexuality and their relationship with women. As for rorikon, Japanese feminists have insisted that those men who cannot construct sexual relationship with adult women sometimes seek to sexually exploit little girls because those girls are weaker than men, and usually cannot say no to adult men. I think this theory explains one aspect of rorikon, but it doesn't explain all aspects of it. I presented a hypothesis, the hypothesis of "desire of rebirth of oneself" in Chapter 3 and 4.

In the last chapter, I pointed out that there is an idea "my body is dirty" inside many men's minds, and this idea might be another cause of men's insensitivity in the field of sexuality. And I think about the way how to escape from this miserable state.

A gay man, reading this book, told me that it is very rare that a heterosexual man talks about his own sexuality in such an open manner, and he went on to say this may be a revolutional book. I was happy to hear that. And a woman said that she was shocked to know the hidden reality of male sexuality. I would like to hear comments not only from Japanese readers, but also from around the world.

English translation is being prepared by Jamie Grefe. You will be able to read Preface and Chapter 1 or 2 on this site soon. The rest of the book, too, will be uploaded here, or if I can find a publisher who might have an interest, the whole translated text may be published in an English book someday.


Translation to other languages

  Japanese website for this book


Publication Data

Chikuma Shobo Publications, Chikuma-Shinsho series No.521, Tokyo, Feb.9,2005, 181pages, 680yen, written in Japanese.

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