世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass any filters you might have in the office that could potentially block this survey from goo Ranking looking at men’s fetishes, in particular fetishes men would be less eager to talk about.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 24th of July 2009 1,026 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 48.2% of the sample were male, 8.0% in their teens, 14.6% in their twenties, 28.8% in their thirties, 26.0% in their forties, 12.5% in their fifties, and 10.1% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. Note that today’s question is for the men only, but the same question has been posed to the women.

Number 2, athletic thighs, is quite a rarity in Japan amongst young women, as usually it is the anorexic look that is in. I’m not really quite sure about wide foreheads, though…

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Ranking results

Q: What’s your secret favourite fetish? (Sample size=495, male)

Rank		Score
1	Skin between knee socks and skirt (Absolute Area/Zettai Ryoiku)	100
2	Athletic thighs	89.5
3	Voice	75.4
4=	Smell	70.2
4=	Small breasts	70.2
6	Big bums	56.1
7	Lower lips	31.6
8	Small hands	28.1
9	Indent around collar bone	26.3
10	Upper lips	24.6
11	Firm upper arms	21.1
12=	Blood vessels visible through white skin	19.3
12=	White bits left after tanning	19.3
14	Droopy eyes	17.5
15	Earlobes	14.0
16=	Broad shoulders	12.3
16=	Wide forehead	12.3
18=	Belly buttons	8.8
18=	Excess hair	8.8
18=	Single-folded eyelids	8.8