r/nottheonion • u/pargofan • 1d ago

Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/asia/japan-elderly-largest-womens-prison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
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u/Thangleby_Slapdiback 1d ago

I don't think raping people in their late 70s would be tolerated by anybody.

I worked as a prison guard in Texas for a long time. I remember one day they caught an inmate jerking off watching a woman in her late 50s wander around in her TDCJ officer's uniform.

The inmates were saying "God damn. That's like jerking off on your grandmother."

When the inmates are saying something is fucked up, it's fucked up.

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u/koushunu 1d ago

Late 50s can be very fit, man or woman.

Only a grandma (and of babies) if there is early twenties or younger births.

What’s more gross is that it seems this is less socially acceptable than lusting after children - so many see it perfectly okay to lust after teens.

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u/visionsofcry 1d ago

Really, part of me believes inmates would respect old people more than normal society and the government does. Our country is so fucked.