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View Poll Results: Shin Sekai Yori - Episode 8 Rating
Perfect 10 10 13.33%
9 out of 10 : Excellent 10 13.33%
8 out of 10 : Very Good 20 26.67%
7 out of 10 : Good 14 18.67%
6 out of 10 : Average 15 20.00%
5 out of 10 : Below Average 4 5.33%
4 out of 10 : Poor 1 1.33%
3 out of 10 : Bad 0 0%
2 out of 10 : Very Bad 0 0%
1 out of 10 : Painful 1 1.33%
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Old 2012-11-18, 04:53   Link #101
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Ehemm.. I'll still stick to [...] withdra**l
That's not a reliable method of birth control...
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Old 2012-11-18, 05:53   Link #102
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I also thought that their age was a plausible reason for the prevalence of homosexual relationships. The argument that this is intended as a form of birth control seems silly to me. Certainly this society is advanced enough to have developed contraception. There's even the possibility for PK abortions or even self-induced PK abortions. If heterosexual relationships are discouraged, there has to be more to it than contraception. How much do we know about how reproduction works in this society? Is Saki the natural offspring of her parents?
Abortion is not exactly rainbows and sunshine, though? Not something that people could just work into the system as "oh well, if someone gets pregnant we'll just abort it," especially with the people being such very sexual creatures. It would seriously endanger the entire "living peacefully" basis of society. Not to mention that these people have a built-in restraint against causing harm to other humans, and regardless of intent and purpose, you can't exactly do abortion without harming someone pretty heavily. And I don't even know what sort of conditioning you would need to make every single human woman, regardless of personality, be able to perform something so heavy and painful on themselves without psychological trauma (never mind the possible physical complications!).

And as for birth control, for one, the society doesn't seem to be particularly technologically advanced. Sure, they can do amazing things with their powers, but that doesn't seem to include creating material like, say, rubber. And sure, there are other, much more rudimentary methods of contraception, but those are not exactly reliable (otherwise humans wouldn't have worked so hard on perfecting the condom, ha). And anyway, even if they had a more or less reliable method: would you trust teenagers to be careful and always pay attention? Especially when they're conditioned to indulge in sexual intimacy as freely as possible?

Two, the attitude to sexuality in this show keeps reminding me of Huxley's Brave New World (I don't remember if the book ever touched on bi/homosexuality, though, IIRC everyone was conveniently straight). In that novel people are conditioned to be very promiscuous and they have a very strong sex drive, EXCEPT part of the population is neutered, and girls who are not are conditioned, very heavily, to do all the necessary contraceptive steps to prevent pregnancy.

We haven't seen anything like that in Shinsekai yori, perhaps due to the lack of technology necessary to produce reliable contraceptive materials, or lack of trust in teenagers' ability to be responsible, or perhaps just as a way of retaining control over society. So instead of that they condition kids to have sex with people of the same sex, and create very strict rules about sexual activities between men and women (fwiw this is mentioned in the novel, more than once), until they are ready to produce and raise children.

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Whose hand do you think Saki is holding in the ED when she awakens from her dream? The other hand is about the same size as Saki's, so I might have guessed it is Maria's, except for the ominous forebodings about her. The boys do not look too burly, so it could be one of them as well.
I think it's either Satoru or Shun, or it's supposed to be "anyone."

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Old 2012-11-18, 06:26   Link #103
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And I don't even know what sort of conditioning you would need to make every single human woman, regardless of personality, be able to perform something so heavy and painful on themselves without psychological trauma (never mind the possible physical complications!).
If they could detect a fertilized egg entering the wall of the uterus, removing it from there wouldn't cause much physiological trauma.
And for all we know, everyone in the village might eat hormon additives (or even nanites) with the food. In fact I would be surprised if they didn't.

With that "danger" removed there wouldn't be a need for them to know about human reproduction until they're adults.
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Old 2012-11-18, 06:42   Link #104
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If they could detect a fertilized egg entering the wall of the uterus, removing it from there wouldn't cause much physiological trauma.
But can they even do something like that? Their power is basically psychokinesis, that doesn't cover something so microscopical and biological as that... Messing around with cells in your own uterus would require control over your body on the level of I dunno, the Bene Gesserit in Dune.
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Old 2012-11-18, 07:51   Link #105
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I'm not convinced yet that they don't have some sort of advanced technology left (like in Star Trek: Insurrection they just don't need it for everyday use).
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Old 2012-11-18, 09:45   Link #106
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Well yes, there are the library critters, wandering the woods and doing whatever library critters do when they're not being interrogated by meddling kids. I don't know if they ever said when they were created, though.
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Old 2012-11-18, 10:24   Link #107
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Every girls wants to be adored by others especially but the one she really likes. She clinged to Maria because the norms says she must. I think she is beginning to slowly reveal more of her feeling to Shun now that he is going away far from her sight.... And I think next week will show that...
The norm said to be with someone, and she chose the most convenient... twice!

She also waited for Shun to break up AND get exiled before attempting anything, and even half-hearted at that.

I can understand why, having her as the narrator, helps a lot to figure out the way she is thinking, even with all the problems the anime has.

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That I doubt... We can't say until the end tells us it is..

I think they both care for one another. It's just their friends (who claims to be their respective lovers) and society they live on that stops them from going all out...
Agreed, and in any case the line between so close friends and lovers is not clear always.

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I think they are conditioned to be bisexual since they are born. For some reason, they seem to be expected to have an homosexual relationship at the age of 14.
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Probably the best reason for it...
Sexual behavior is learned, not inherited in humans and most animals... we are not born straight/gay/bi- we develop those tastes influenced by family, friends and the society we grow up in... in that sense we (as well as the characters of this anime) are conditioned.
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Old 2012-11-18, 14:05   Link #108
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Sexual behavior is learned, not inherited in humans and most animals... we are not born straight/gay/bi- we develop those tastes influenced by family, friends and the society we grow up in... in that sense we (as well as the characters of this anime) are conditioned.
There's a lot of scientific literature that would suggest sexual orientation is neurobiological.
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Old 2012-11-18, 14:22   Link #109
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There's a lot of scientific literature that would suggest sexual orientation is neurobiological.
I get the impression that people in this world still have a "main" (or natural) sexual orientation. They are just conditioned by society into thinking that being bisexual is the norm/it's a good thing/it's expected of them.
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Old 2012-11-18, 14:22   Link #110
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There's a lot of scientific literature that would suggest sexual orientation is neurobiological.
Any behavior has a neurobiological source... the question is inherited or developed?
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Old 2012-11-18, 15:59   Link #111
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I'm not convinced yet that they don't have some sort of advanced technology left (like in Star Trek: Insurrection they just don't need it for everyday use).
Well, biotechnology that allows a created being to store and recall information as a living library would be considered quite advanced technology.

Aside from that, this society reminds me more of what happened in Babylon 5 (a really good sci-fi series that was amazingly advanced for its time). In one episode, the timeline 1000 years in the future had a society that was sent back to the stoneage due to war and destruction, but there are still some advanced people of society that are slowly integrating and guiding the society back to prominence.

I believe the scientists are serving that function right now. They could be the ones watching behind the scenes and guiding the current society we see.
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Old 2012-11-18, 18:14   Link #112
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Well, having unprotected sex doesn't usually result in pregnancy, but in any case, I guess 1000 years from now parents finally begin teaching their kids at the proper age again how to avoid accidents (i.e. the restriction you mentioned).
Sex ed is usually taught around the ages of 11-13... just how young is it supposed to be taught, nursery school?
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Old 2012-11-18, 19:42   Link #113
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Well, having unprotected sex doesn't usually result in pregnancy, but in any case, I guess 1000 years from now parents finally begin teaching their kids at the proper age again how to avoid accidents (i.e. the restriction you mentioned).
I read spoilers of the novel.

In the novel says that intercourse between minors is prohibited by their society. Of course a guy and a girl (who are minors) can make other kind of sex (oral job, hand job), but intercourse is forbidden for them (there is even regular body check to confirm that).

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Old 2012-11-18, 20:50   Link #114
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That's not a reliable method of birth control...
I know that... so being homo is better (no offense to them)?

I mean, declaring that everyone has to be one for the sake of population control...? Sorry but I may be close to my friends but not to have sex with them (either male of female) unless I really love the girl and with her consent and after marriage....

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That save my heart there... +
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Old 2012-11-18, 20:57   Link #115
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I know that... so being homo is better? I mean, declaring that everyone has to be one for the sake of population control...? Sorry but I may be close to my friends but not to have sex...
Well, these kids are probably bi-sexual. I mean, they're probably engineered in some way to all have at least some level of same-sex sexual attraction. Either that, or simply being a PKer makes you bi-sexual.
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Well, these kids are probably bi-sexual. I mean, they're probably engineered in some way to all have at least some level of same-sex sexual attraction. Either that, or simply being a PKer makes you bi-sexual.
Hehehe, the problem was the opening scenes made them not bisexual....
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Old 2012-11-18, 21:25   Link #117
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Hehehe, the problem was the opening scenes made them not bisexual....
Not sure what opening scenes you are referring to, but I thought the story lesson on episode 4 made it pretty clear that they are. The scenes with Saki getting it on with a boy in episode 5 and then with a girl in episode 8 seem to confirm that to me.
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Sexual behavior is learned, not inherited in humans and most animals... we are not born straight/gay/bi- we develop those tastes influenced by family, friends and the society we grow up in... in that sense we (as well as the characters of this anime) are conditioned.
So its not instinct why males go on with a naked girl than another naked man?

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Not sure what opening scenes you are referring to, but I thought the story lesson on episode 4 made it pretty clear that they are. The scenes with Saki getting it on with a boy in episode 5 and then with a girl in episode 8 seem to confirm that to me.
Episode 5 is more of innocent making experiments....

Episode 8 is do what is supposed to be done....
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Old 2012-11-18, 23:30   Link #119
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Episode 5 is not 'innocent making experiments'. It's already been strongly hinted that sex is nothing new to them even then. The manga even highlights it excessively. The only reason they stopped was because Saki was thinking about the rainbow library creature's words.
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Episode 5 is not 'making experiments'. It's already been strongly hinted that sex is nothing new to them even then. The manga even highlights it excessively.
So they do it at that age? 12? With both?
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