What is Nanpa and how to know if you are a victim of this practice

Having a partner and having sex seems to be easier in the days of social networks and dating apps. But, of course, success is not always guaranteed and there are countries like Japan where a a practice as popular as it is questioned called Nanpa.

Beyond certain progress, changes in mentality and mentality, difficult times continue to exist, women recognize when it comes to being addressed both through an approach compliment as well as the reprehensible street harassment.

It is known that more traditional “conquest” techniques, skills and customs were not usually accompanied by much respect or empathy, and the predominant machismo It was common and even natural currency.

But times change, struggles become conquests and reconstructions, and now detect inappropriate and toxic behaviors It’s much more frequent.

Beyond that, inside Japan, a country that happens to have one of the most advanced societies in the worlda technique or practice that has little decorum or good customs proliferates on the street.

What is Nanpa and how to know if they do it for you

The phenomenon of Nanpa or nampa is one of the flirting techniques or they find a partner who is a bit shady and questionable, which they link to flirting and seduction.

Nanpa is practiced most frequently by young men who go by their own from adolescence to the age of twenty-fiveto describe Wikipedia. And they don’t seem to distinguish the thin line seduction and harassment.

Groups of “NANPA Boys” gather around places predominantly occupied by female pedestrian traffic (bridges, subway stations, shopping malls) and They approach women looking for a date.

These young people, also called nanpas or nanperos, usually wear high-fashion attire with beautiful clothes, expensive shoes and extravagant hairstyles.

Due to their style of dress, Nanpa boys are sometimes mistaken by foreigners for employees of the host clubs, who are also seen talking to various women.

How Nanpa is used in Japan

How do young people use nanpa? The method has a negative connotation much bigger than we could imagine.

When young men see a girl they like, They chase her down the street, speaking to her very directly and insistently.without considering how they might feel”, explains the portal MenZig from Spain.

Thus, this technique, closer to harassment than to an innocent exchange of words and emotions, calls into question the enigmatic and respectful Japanese society.

However, there is also the Nanpa homosexual but this is limited to some more specific neighborhoods like Shinjuku ni-chomethey expand.

Another negative point to add to the practice is that young Japanese They rank and count the number of phones and dates they get with girlsas if it were a competition and they were simple objects.

In this way they record the number of contacts, appointments, the best places to go and all kinds of data that provide a greater probability of success. Homemade math and statistics applied to dating.

What Japanese culture is like regarding relationships and sex

Experts point to the Japanese company as one of the those who have greater difficulty socializing. But also, that young people themselves choose to isolate themselves (psychopathological phenomenon known as hikkomori).

And they say that everything related to sexuality and feelings is the most complex emotional aspect to control. Something that gets worse in a context without social tools.

The site that provides news relating to men reports this for example In Tokyo there are subway cars reserved exclusively for women.

Another fact: they say it Cell phones are sold with in-camera audio so that young people cannot take pictures of girls without them realizing it or at least those around them finding out.

They also mention how through anime and manga there has been a hypersexualization of women.

It is true, the specialists summarize, there are numerous aspects that we should learn from Japanese society, such as efficiency, punctuality, order and responsibility at work. But clearly nanpeo is not something to brag about.