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...Sex acts are momentary
and superficial, engaged as much (if not more) to break someone
down than to achieve orgasmic release, and they rarely result
in enduring unions. The characteristics of interpersonal relations
here - disengagement, distance, and disguise - are virtually
the opposite of those ideologized as being essential to the
"Japaneseness" of group membership: loyalty, attachment,
and mutual self-exposure. The latter is thought of in terms
of stickiness that, like glue, joins workers, for example,
to companies not just during work hours but for "24 hours
a day" (Aida 1972). By contrast, little is gluelike on
the pages of an ero manga...
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