世論 What Japan Thinks

Following on from last week’s boyfriend beach FAIL, goo Ranking published the other side of the story, what men do not want to see their girlfriends doing at the beach or in the pool.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 23rd of June 2010 1,137 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.1% of the sample were female, 8.0% in their teens, 20.4% in their twenties, 31.2% in their thirties, 23.9% in their forties, 9.2% in their fifties, and 7.2 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. In addition, this question was for males only.

I’m not really sure why her spirally body hair is such a problem, as it should have been covered by the option above. Furthermore, I’ve never really noticed any Japanese women with enough body hair to make it an issue.

And don’t ask me why doing the butterfly well is a problem for men!

Finally, not surprisingly showing off too much skin comes dead last.

The photo on the right is taken from Okinawa Soba’s excellent collection on flickr.

Ranking result

Q: What do you not want to see your girlfriend doing at the beach, pool? (Sample size=397, male)

Rank		Score
1	Her gut hanging over her bikini bottom	100
2	Her forgetting to trim excess hair	70.1
3	Her body hair going all spiral when wet	68.0
4	Her swimwear doesn’t suit her body shape	49.5
5	Her padding slipping	47.4
6	Her ogling other men in trunks	46.4
7	Her keeping covered up to avoid sunburn	45.4
8	Her wearing sports-use swimsuit	40.2
9	Her looking cold (blue lips, goose pimples, etc)	40.2
10=	Her getting scolded by the lifeguard	35.1
10=	Her having better six-pack abs than me	35.1
12	Her getting changed right there	34.0
13=	Her swimsuit falling off as she climbs out of the water	33.0
13=	Her too perfect butterfly strokes	33.0
13=	Her doing long-distance swmming on her own	33.0
16	Her all white from slapping on too much sunblock	32.0
17	Her Twittering “I’m at the beach!”, “I’m in the pool”	28.9
18	Her make-up running	27.8
19=	Her having a rather strange sun tan	24.7
19=	Her swimsuit showing too much skin	24.7