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I had to look that up thinking: "That sounds cool".

Nope. Poor girls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_hypertrophy

This is a culture thing. Think of Europe back in the day, women were not supposed to want to have sex. If a woman was wanting sex she was probably possessed by the devil or something else was wrong with her. Women have sex only to get pregnant and they should not enjoy it.

But of course women wanted sex, just like men, so this weird thing happens around rape. Because if a man physically forces himself on a woman, the woman can't really help it. All of a sudden she is free of this "guilt" or blame, because noone can blame her for getting raped (because remember that "women are weak and men are strong" etc etc). So strangely enough "rape" becomes a tool for female sexual freedom in a sense, even inside relationships and consensual sex.

Disclaimer: Of course real actual rape is terrible and a horrible experience, what I am talking about here is a social and cultural "loophole".

In fact in some sense being passive as a man forces the woman to take an active role and therefore robs her of the "innocence" the pretended rape gave her. It makes her guilty.

This over time coloured the culture around sex so in the end we end up with women acting like they are not willing partners, when in truth they are.

I am talking generally here, about why it is such a common thing in Japanese videos, and I'm not saying that this is always the case. Nor am I saying that "this is how things are in Japan" period. Japan is changing rapidly and becoming more and more western, so who knows how long this will stay as a thing.

I don't think it is toned down as much as it is different from the US way. If it is anything like the Swedish way (where I have some experience) the focus is on turning the soldier into very capable individuals with a large and broad grasp of a variety of techniques and weapons.

You might say that the US does this too, but the difference lies in the fact that the US has a huge military where the focus becomes coordination and discipline. Finland, and Sweden, have much smaller armies and therefore have to focus on individual capability of soldiers and small groups more. A country wide guerilla military warfare focus vs large scale invasion force.

This means that the discipline things like marching around in order for no reason, having officers yelling at you and this whole breaking people down to rebuild them again simply does not exist to the same extent. Those techniques are useful when dealing with large amounts of people that you have to quickly have to turn into soldiers of course, but that is not how things are in Finland and Sweden.

I can give an example of how the training is laid out. I had a short training period of 7.5 months (the shortest available back when I did my conscription):

The first 2.5 months were basic training, learning to be a soldier (equipment, main weapon, lots of shooting, camo personal vehicle camp, basic combat in terrain and urban settings, camping, tactics, deployment, anti tank/vehicle weapons, weapon disassembly and other basic things).

The next month and a half was specialization training like machine gunner, recoilless rifle operator, vehicle etc. With specific exercises and later on coordination between roles exercises. Vehicle combat, mining, plastic explosives etc.

Then we had a half a month of cold weather and advanced survival training culminating in a 5 day survive with nothing but a knife and a magnesium stick type thing. This also included escape and evasion.

At this point we moved into learning each others roles well enough to perform them properly. Then we went hard into CQB. Everything from small houses to large factories in the middle of stockholm. Live hand grenades and incorporating them into our regular live fire exercises. Night combat exercises, artillery support exercises, advanced specialization training, more escape and evasion, capture, interrogation and stress positions.

The last month was mostly chill (final big regimental exercise) and cleaning though.

This was a basic infantry type deal. After this though I had been trained with: AK5, FN MAG, FN Minimi Para, Carl Gustaf, AT4, Hand grenades, Vehicle mines, Claymores, Anti tank mines, Plastic explosives, light mortar and the Mora. And of course all the knowledge.

In the end I think that comparing the US and the Finish (or in this case Swedish) armies is a flawed thing from the start because they are intended for vastly different things.

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