Chapter 112 Part 2
The government and ruling party claimed that the 『New Law for the Protection of Men』 was preventing population decline, and this claim was backed up by data.
However, from the 1970s, in addition to the stagnation in economic activity, the new tax burden that was imposed under the 『New Law for the Protection of Men』 aggravated the dissatisfaction among single middle-aged and elderly women.
The beneficiary of this was the men-sharing movement, as well as opposition parties that, under its influence, began to adopt policies aimed at improving the status of women.
Apparently, it was the same in this world as well, where people took an opposing stance to the policies of the government and the ruling party no matter what.
In the last general election, due in part to the instability of opposition parties, the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party, was able to secure a majority.
However, as anti-government demonstrations, including those from the Men-sharing movement, were gaining more and more momentum, the ruling party was expected to face a tough competition in the elections to be held this fall.
Talk about an awful development…
Though, there were restrictions imposed on this movement, mainly for safety reasons, and Yuu, who had been blessed with the opportunity to meet wonderful women such as Sayaka, was grateful to have been reborn in this world.
However, if the power of the ruling and opposition parties was reversed, the society that favored men might end up changing.
There were differences in attitude even among the opposition parties, and no one knew whether or not they would keep their promises after being elected.
God knew what would become of the 『New Law for the Protection of Men』, but at least, the society would most likely favor the majority of women more than it was now.
Although there were differences depending on the parties, he had also learned that some parties among the men-sharing movement faction were advocating this kind of argument.
According to them, men and women above the age of 18 were obliged to form groups according to the ratio of men to women and spend a certain amount of time together (for example, 10 hours with three women in a given week).
In other words, one man was obliged to spend time with 30 women in turn.
Since the groups were randomly formed regardless of age, it was possible to see the pairing of an 18-year-old boy and a 70-year-old old woman, or conversely, an 18-year-old girl and a 70-year-old old man. As expected, it probably wouldn’t lead to sex, though.
Other than that, they touted a temporary young men lending system, such as during summer and spring vacation, high school and university male students were required to participate in a domestic homestay and spend a certain period of time with a female-only family living in another prefecture, where they must comply when requested for sex, and setting aside the possibility of its realization, it had gained support from female voters.
In other words, they were trying to make men keep company women regardless of what kind of person the other party was, even if she was an old woman or ugly in appearance.
C’mon, let us be free when it comes to love, at least. Young and beautiful ones like my mother are an exception, but I’d like them to spare me from having to keep company women who normally would be old enough to be my mother. But the result is a society that has too many women, huh….
In Yuu’s case, if he were asked to choose 30 women and have sex with them every day, he would be happy to do so.
However, he would like to limit his partners to women who were in line with the ones he had been with thus far.
Even so, a man like Yuu who laid his hands on girls one after another was a rarity in this world.
If they ever wished, there was no shortage of girls they could pick as companions, but the boys in his class were so passive when it came to love. To such an extent that it was hard to believe that they were adolescent boys.
Well, influenced by the boys-girls social events, recently there had been a trend of them trying to get closer to girls, though.
Incidentally, when Yuu brought up the recent political situation at school, the boys’ reactions were impassive.
They didn’t even know the term men-sharing movement.
That might be just how it was for normal high school students, but he was concerned that they seemed to have little interest in the matter, even though it concerned them.
When he brought it up at the student council, as expected, Sayaka and Riko knew about it and expressed their concerns.
Those who openly opposed the men-sharing movement were married women and mothers of boys like Martina.
However, they were small in number.
In fact, recently, the men-sharing movement seemed to be spreading not only among the middle-aged and elderly women, but also among young, single women, and Yuu couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
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What Yuu realized while looking up the current situation and the trends of the past 10 to 20 years.
The name of the person that was mentioned over and over again in the documents from the 1980 onwards for building connections, including love connections, with figures that would shoulder the future of the political and business worlds, such as young politicians and businessmen, was Toyota Sakuya, in other words his father.
He found it peculiar that in this world, sleeping with another man was by no means a scorned-upon thing, even if she was married or had a boyfriend.
In order to produce offspring, men took multiple women as wives, so perhaps they didn’t see it as a problem even if the women had sex with other men, too.
For Yuu, there was the example of Sayaka, who had formed a deep relationship with him even though she had a fiancé, and was not ashamed of it at all, so he had no choice but to accept that if the world changed, the concept of chastity would change, too.
Until recently, he had thought of his father, Sakuya, whom he had only seen in photos and on TV, as an extraordinary sexual prodigy.
To his surprise, his legend began when he was 10 years old, and in the 20 years until his death, he had 20 women that he officially took as wives, but the number of women he had relationships with was unknown. According to one theory, it was said to be between 500 and 600 women.
The children that had been confirmed to be his numbered more than 200, but the number of children that were born and living overseas was unknown.
Above was the information I got from Inui Rumiko, an official at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and Fujiki, who works at the secretariat of the Toyota Sakuya Memorial Foundation.
While he displayed such sexual prowess, it was said that his father, Sakuya, offered great insight in their efforts to improve the treatment of men and reduce the distance between men and women in Japan.
Apparently, at the age of just over twenty, his father, who was as famous as a celebrity, or even more so, was so sociable that any woman could get close to him, and greatly contributed to the reformation that led to the conception of the 』New Law for the Protection of Men』.
However, how many people knew his father’s true intentions?
A possibility that only Yuu could guess. Perhaps his father was a reincarnated person, or a regression-transferred person like Yuu.
Like Yuu, he was reborn in a world where the concept of chastity was reversed and actively tried to get into contact with women.
In an era that was harsher toward men than it was now, why did he deliberately choose a difficult path instead of being satisfied with a literal harem life surrounded by many wives and children?
Was it because he wanted to change the world where even attractive women grow old without having the opportunity to come into contact with men?
Was it because he wanted to correct this world, where the ratio of men and women was unbalanced, even if just a little?
At this point, there was no way to confirm what kind of wish his father had when he took those actions.
However, now that more than three months had passed since he was reborn in this world, Yuu started to think about his father’s hidden feelings, and felt like he could somehow imagine it.
Since he had gone through the rare experience of being reborn with his memories intact, rather than living an ordinary life, he would like to try to accomplish something for society.
His father played a big role in the conception of the current government’s male protection policy.
If that was the case, he was opposed to the men-sharing movement that was attempting to overturn that.
Rather than making drastic changes to current policies, shouldn’t they start from the areas that needed improvement?
He had started to have such a thought every time he learned about the state of society through the news or newspapers.
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Before he knew it, it was almost 9pm.
For now, Yuu thought he should go back to his room and review today’s lessons.
His elder sister Elena had also started studying hard every day for her university entrance exam, and should be hard at it even now.
「Mom is late today too, huh.」
As soon as he turned off the TV, the room was enveloped in silence.
Putting his hand on the living room doorknob, he looked around the empty room, and talked to himself.
For what he remembered, as long as no unexpected work came in, Martina would be home by 7 o’clock.
However, since she was promoted to a managerial position this year, not only did the number of days when she came home late due to meetings and dinners increased, she had started going on overnight business trips about once a month.
That meant his mother’s work was getting appreciated, so he was without a doubt happy about it, but the person in question didn’t seem to be very happy about it.
This was because she would have less time to spend with her family (especially Yuu).
And he felt like she had been coming home especially late recently.
Today was Friday, and they planned to go out as a family tomorrow afternoon.
Due in part to that, he heard that she took Saturday, which was only a half-day, off.
As such, even if it was unrelated to work, it wouldn’t be strange even if she went to grab a few drinks.
She was a proper adult, so there should be no need to worry too much.
Around one hour after Yuu started reviewing his lessons….
Suddenly, *clank, clank* he heard the sound of door being unlocked from the entrance.
「Ah, she’s back.」
He happened to be at a good part to take a break, so after putting away the textbooks and notebooks that he had laid out, Yuu opened the door to his room and headed for the entrance.
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And caught. Interesting that they are adding a political angle for this mainly smut story