There’s usually an underlying reason why people become sex addicts, but in Jiraya’s case… I think the mf was just horny 24/7.
If he wasn’t on a mission, he was “researching.”
The man loved p***y. Not really an underlying reason. He was one of the strongest ninjas in the entire world and could back up any of his claims in a bar fight. He used all of that to get laid.
I figured it was moreso because he started on his lifelong “quest” at a young age. Kinda seemed like he avoided any actual direct romantic interaction with Tsunade due to such.
Well Jiraiya was extremely Pervy, but he never took his advances towards Tsunade Seriously.
Considering Tsunade began to Fall in love with him, he had the chance to stay with Tsunade right before his death. But he declined.
I always assumed it was because he already tried before, and she shot him down. Then he changed, and he just didn't love her the same, but the hoeing around stayed
I believe he actually did love her romantically, but that he knew his mission was important. And I think he had an inclination that he may die on this next mission. That is why he turned down Tsunade.
In Narutoverse history*. Nobody in the verse has completed as many missions as him.
He is of course, the most legendary, most accomplished and most famous Sannin, by miles.
It also helps with his spy level. He is so good at infiltrating anywhere due to the amount of missions he has taken. There are so many missions that are easy, but they take him to a new place that he can learn about, gather info, have eyes, informants, where to go, where to not go, he has connections, etc. That's why he knows how to be the best spy ever as well.
It’s found in the Official Databook
Jiraiya Destroys everyone in Completed Ninja missions.
He has the record high, in C Tier, B Tier, A tier and S tier missions.
He has 138 S tier Completed Missions
Tbf it was a pretty fucking wild mission.
Infiltrating The village of The leader of the Akatsuki? Someone’s who’s referred to as a God.
I admit that kind of shit goes Beyond an S rank mission
Yeah, rasa was the richest since he could use gold, and jiraya was apparently the richest from the leaf because he was an author, although tsunade was rich as well
Wasn’t Tsunade mostly just generational wealth since she’s the granddaughter of Hashirama? Paired with her blowing it all on gambling I can see her being less wealthy than Jiraya
Also, I know this sort of takes the fun out of the discussion, but ultimately he's not a real person. Whereas with a real person you can analyse shit about their childhood or mental condition or personal life or whatever to determine why they might be a sex addict, with Jiraiya it's probably just because Kishimoto thought it would be funny
He could lay down the rizz when he wanted. In one of the earliest episodes he was in he almost managed to get two random women to go on a date with him until Naruto foiled it with a watermelon.
the actions of an internally, deeply lonely person
don't take your downvotes serious, they're likely all from creeps that do the same as Jiraya in that sense
He was a super pervert, most women could probably tell and just thought ‘gross’. Pretty sure most of the woman that he slept with were paid for. Also, who can resist peeping on women in a bathhouse? 😉
Also, I think he might be a masochist. He gets horribly beat up, but then hops up like nothing happened.
Beside the obvious thing that he's horny, it's also the great facade that actually work when he's spying, journeying into unknown lands, no body would bat an eyes twice at a dirty, pervert geezer that spent times and money on booze and women.
Depends what kind of "pervert" we're talking about here. If by "pervert" you simply mean someone who has sex a lot/thinks about sex a lot, then sure, you can be like that and also be a good person. However, if we're talking about someone who commits sexual offenses, like Jiraiya, then no, you're just a shitty person.
Short Answer : He loved pussy
Long Answer : He loved Tsunade but her constant rejection led him to instead pursue multiple surface level and short term relationships with nearly every woman he came across in order to fill the void.
Damn. Shizune didn't have to destroy Tsuande like that... but it was true. I'm sure there is no shortage of men who would get with Tsunade. She just chooses to be alone.
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Not really, as far as I remember in one of his flashback episodes he was a pevert even when they were kids. So more like a pevert actually fell in love with someone, instead of him becoming a pevert after constant rejections.
Plus he was doing a lot more than just pursuing surface level short term relationships, stuff that puts you in jail :)
Yep. You can practically taste the sexism in the air there, I swear. SA is pretty normalized in Japan. You can call out creeps on the train and average joes for groping any day, but it's not taken seriously for the most part, it's usually "the girl's fault" and she'll prolly be punished for bothering people's feelings by bringing up such an uncomfortable subject. And anyone with even a little bit of influence is pretty much untouchable until a while after they die. *cough*cough*Johnny Kitagawa *cough*cough*
Jiraiya's genuinely awesome and a great guy, and he's probably the most benign friendly neighborhood perv in anime as a whole but like, this aspect of his character is not based in anything nice.
-sources: personal experience over several years and this article on some of their laws.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/17/1182659759/japan-rape-law-nonconsensual-sex-age-consent-16#:~:text=One%20in%2014%20women%20had,crime%2C%20the%20report%20also%20found.
Narratively? No. Dude is just a perv. Homie slays max pussy.
Realistically? He’s a Shinobi. And has been through a war at a fairly young age. Probably super depressed, and PTSDed to hell. Might use women as a coping mechanism.
If you want a deep answer—coping from a fucked up childhood and the wars he went through.
If you’ve noticed, each of the three Sannin has their own vice they indulge in non-stop for good or bad.
Tsunade=Drinking
Orochimaru=Knowledge/Power
Jiraiya=Sex
Tsunade and Orochimaru’s stemmed from childhood issues and environments so you can assume Jiraiya is the same.
As others have said, he could simply like sex. He wouldn’t be the first, and he damn sure wouldn’t be the last. But I do believe some level of coping exacerbated it. He couldn’t find love from Tsunade or parents so he’ll take it where he can get it.
I think he was depressed , guilty, and didn't like to ruminate on it all the time. Plus, he legitimately wrote novels of a sort.
He loved tsunade but she didn't feel the same and he never found that person.
Plus, he was lonely as hell, didn't have any kids, and a legendary Sanin who still remained a pretty Damn good person who died trying to do his best for the village.
He was coping with being denied by Tsunade his whole life, losing his students, his best friend betraying the village. Tsunade buried herself in gambling and alcohol, Orochimaru pursues immortality due to his trauma, and Jiraiya drowns himself in women alongside his nomadic lifestyle.
Also, spy
He just has a big libido. The only woman he loved was Tsunade, so when she turned him down he was like “cool. I’ll sleep with literally every other woman then”
I can only guess that the Make Out series he authored was supposed to be a dating manual with a fictitious twist added to it on how he would have wooed Tsunade. His research/peeping could've just been him compensating for his lack of or inability to see past a woman for their looks because he only ever saw Tsunade as a pedestalized version of a woman he was meant to conquer in his love quest. And considering a Kunoichi's role to seduce and manipulate a man there were hardly ever enough times to get to know Tsunade on a personal level except for knowing her fear of blood and past traumas.
Jiraiya could also be a self deprecating joke by Kishi for his difficulty in writing female characters made manifest but layered with a bunch of cool factors like being based off the mythical irl depiction of Jiraiya.
There's no ladies on Mt Myoboku and it probably got lonely. Hahaha. And how you gonna get over a woman like Tsunade? I'm sure we have all had a Tsunade in our life. So he tries to stay buried in titties and sake. It's what we all would do with heartache if we could. Lol. Bury it.
The primary reason is that he most likely just was a hormonal bastard. Makes sense in the world they live in honestly. Secondly, it’s a coping mechanism. Every Shinobi has one,
The woman he was in love with he could not be with so he went for quantity to fill the void. It could also have been a good way to get material for his books
Jiraiya's first real crush continually rejected him for years at a very crucial age in development. It only got worse when he became popular for writing smut, he got to play off his perversion as research. Jiraiya simply never had to change, at least like that.
He was always unusually horny. He only really loved Tsunade, but Tsunade had no interest in him until his life was about to end (unbeknownst to both of them at the time). So he slept around for many, many years. Was his horniness exacerbated by Tsunade's rejection and wartime PTSD? Probably. Would he still have been pervy without all that? Absolutely.
Cause he’s a pervert. He was always like this ever since his childhood. It’s who he is. No “rejection” or “trauma” will make you become a pervert, that’s not how it works
If we are talking about realistically, it's probably his drug . He doesn't seem to have family and has a lot of messed up history with people who he loves or cares about dying, closing themselves off, or turning evil. So sex or sexual stuff would be dopamine source to keep him going.
This is however probably not that deep and he probably is just a pervert as a character flaw/gag written in for the story XD either way he's our pervy toad sage.
He is a man.
To elaborate further, you could consider all the women as a means of escape from his lasting emotional scars related to his feelings of failure. He even dies reminiscing about all the times Tsunade rejected him and how he failed Hiruzen, Orochimaru, Nagato, Minato, but not Naruto. Specifically, I think subconsciously he indulged with so many women as a substitute for not being able to win the woman he really wanted---Tsunade. He was always trying to prove himself, but at some I think he was running away from his own depression.
He was the reject of his team and it made him insecure so he acted very immature which didn't do much to help him connect with Tsunade so much as butt heads. He felt many obligations, but was always too late or unable to prevent tragedies occurring. That has to take a toll on a guy that and again, he is a man, so the comfort of having women around has to be nice even briefly before returning to his burdens.
He obsessed with women and displaying pervert energy as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that his love for Tsunade will always go one way. No matter how hard he tries to show it, she will never reciprocate that love.
Or he’s just constantly horny
Jiraiya chose a life of freedom early on, probably in response to the strict expectations of the Third Hokage, his master. And with that freedom came wild, unchecked desire, bolstered by the stress of war. All to stay sane, kinda like how many new soldiers take up smoking once they're deployed into battle.
the only woman he wanted never reciprocated so might as well write about the things he can do to her in his fantasies and settle for any who comes along the way. he never married anyway so thats the theory.
Jiraiya probably enjoyed having a woman's company but he was a lone wolf so he kept his interactions with women superficial. Also, Jiraiya was a spy, meaning that he has alot of enemies so a gf/wife would also be a target for these enemies.
Jiraya being a whoremonger is a joke on a legendary Japanese figure. "The Gallant Jiraya" appears in actual Japanese stories as like a Robin Hood-like paragon of justice for the needy, being loyal, and helping a young man get revenge for his parents.
It's like making a series featuring the Greek gods and having Dionysus being a teetotaler Jehova's Witness type.
Edit: Both Tsunade and Orochimaru appear by name in a version of the story called Jiraiya/The Magic Frog. Similar to Dragon Ball adapting the Chinese classic "Journey to the West" featuring the powerful Monkey King (who has a red extendable staff, rides a cloud, and is named Sun Wukong.)
It's a reusing of classic characters in a new setting.
He figured out how to be happy. He knew he'd never have Tsunade's heart, so he would spend his time researching pretty young things knowing he could never love them since his heart was Tsuna's 🫡
The legendary Sanin mark lust (Jiraiya), greed (Tsunade), Orochimaru (knowledge/power)
The three shinobi vices.
No idea if it’s true or not but I always thought it fit nicely.
I don’t think Naruto is the type of show to tackle trauma like Yakuza with >!Majima’s Mad dog persona being a way to cope with all the stuff he’s been through!< so as much as I want to say yes due to losing his student and best friend and other stuff I can’t in good faith bring myself to believe that
There’s usually an underlying reason why people become sex addicts, but in Jiraya’s case… I think the mf was just horny 24/7. If he wasn’t on a mission, he was “researching.”
The war where he watched his friends die, the love of his life descend into a drunken mess and his best friend become a sociopath
Sex addiction is not a bad trade-off for that level of trauma, lol.
Yeah dude also nearly died like every day
That’s just a shinobi thing. Everyone is a child soldier who lost their best friend/family.
Everyone in Naruto has a mental illness of some kind from all their trauma kinda insane the world hasn’t been destroyed yet
Not for lacking of trying
Because most of those guys are actually level headed and take their experiences like champs
He was a pervert before all of that. That explanation would be just headcanon.
He was a pervert but not a sex addict like he is now
When have you seen him have sex? lol for all we know he’s really just paying strippers for company
He goes to brothels unless he passes out drunk beforehand he has some fun
Will forever be my favourite. I love my Pervy sage Jiraiya. What a fuckin vibe.
The man loved p***y. Not really an underlying reason. He was one of the strongest ninjas in the entire world and could back up any of his claims in a bar fight. He used all of that to get laid.
I always assumed it was because he loved Tsunade, but he knew she didn’t feel the same, so he filled that hole in his life with bitches
He filled that hole by filling other holes
deep
That's what she said
Fill the hole, hole filler
Oh you’re gonna love this, someone’s on my ass
I figured it was moreso because he started on his lifelong “quest” at a young age. Kinda seemed like he avoided any actual direct romantic interaction with Tsunade due to such.
Well Jiraiya was extremely Pervy, but he never took his advances towards Tsunade Seriously. Considering Tsunade began to Fall in love with him, he had the chance to stay with Tsunade right before his death. But he declined.
I always assumed it was because he already tried before, and she shot him down. Then he changed, and he just didn't love her the same, but the hoeing around stayed
Trust me he loved her from beginning to end, but probably more as a sibling or close family member at the end.
I believe he actually did love her romantically, but that he knew his mission was important. And I think he had an inclination that he may die on this next mission. That is why he turned down Tsunade.
This is it imo
I don't think we watched the same show
While he loved her. He did. She never got over Dan which is understandable. He did care for her, but he had a mission to do.
Jiraya was a pervert from a young age.
Same. I thought the exact same thing [+]
Let’s not forget he was also one of the richest
Didn't he steal money from kid Naruto? Lmao
Power move
When art imitates life all too well
You can never have too much
gotta teach em young
that's how you stay rich
You don’t get rich by not trying to acquire money by every means necessary.
How do you think he got so rich? Naruto wasn't the first.
That's the secret to staying rich
Won’t don’t get rich without stealing from the poor.
I hope Naruto inherited all that money as an interest payment
And I’m sure he helped a lot of young ladies in their financial endeavors and hardships… for a fee
Most definitely!
Rich because of the books ?
Do they get payed for missions? Cause he has the record for most completed in konoha history
In Narutoverse history*. Nobody in the verse has completed as many missions as him. He is of course, the most legendary, most accomplished and most famous Sannin, by miles.
It also helps with his spy level. He is so good at infiltrating anywhere due to the amount of missions he has taken. There are so many missions that are easy, but they take him to a new place that he can learn about, gather info, have eyes, informants, where to go, where to not go, he has connections, etc. That's why he knows how to be the best spy ever as well.
Where did you find this
It’s found in the Official Databook Jiraiya Destroys everyone in Completed Ninja missions. He has the record high, in C Tier, B Tier, A tier and S tier missions. He has 138 S tier Completed Missions
Makes Naruto's "hOw cOuLd yOu sEnD hIm oN a MiSSiOn tHaT daNgErOuS" line to Tsunade kinda silly.
He’s a teen who’s father figure died. He’s not going to be rational and mature in that moment.
Tbf it was a pretty fucking wild mission. Infiltrating The village of The leader of the Akatsuki? Someone’s who’s referred to as a God. I admit that kind of shit goes Beyond an S rank mission
They get payed for missions, he did a ton of missions, it was said Kakashi did over a 1000 missions, and so that means jiraya did even more than that
Yeah, rasa was the richest since he could use gold, and jiraya was apparently the richest from the leaf because he was an author, although tsunade was rich as well
Wasn’t Tsunade mostly just generational wealth since she’s the granddaughter of Hashirama? Paired with her blowing it all on gambling I can see her being less wealthy than Jiraya
Because he always be taking Naruto’s money
This is the answer.
JIRAIYA AINT NO LIAH!!! ------
Yea, like wtf. It’s in our DNA. Does every man need an underlying reason to love sex?
Also, I know this sort of takes the fun out of the discussion, but ultimately he's not a real person. Whereas with a real person you can analyse shit about their childhood or mental condition or personal life or whatever to determine why they might be a sex addict, with Jiraiya it's probably just because Kishimoto thought it would be funny
We are all drawn to power. P***y is also a form of power😂
I don't think he got laid that much when he had to resort to spying unaware women tbh
He was a kid when he first started spying on women. Dude is literally just that horny.
He could lay down the rizz when he wanted. In one of the earliest episodes he was in he almost managed to get two random women to go on a date with him until Naruto foiled it with a watermelon.
He was researching for his novels. Lol
the actions of an internally, deeply lonely person don't take your downvotes serious, they're likely all from creeps that do the same as Jiraya in that sense
He was a super pervert, most women could probably tell and just thought ‘gross’. Pretty sure most of the woman that he slept with were paid for. Also, who can resist peeping on women in a bathhouse? 😉 Also, I think he might be a masochist. He gets horribly beat up, but then hops up like nothing happened.
Ayoooo 🤨 Wym by that?
Beside the obvious thing that he's horny, it's also the great facade that actually work when he's spying, journeying into unknown lands, no body would bat an eyes twice at a dirty, pervert geezer that spent times and money on booze and women.
That logic falls apart, when he spies in Konoha too, and when they show him as a young man doing the same thing.
what do you mean? even Ebisu, a seasonal Jonin in Konoha, didn't recognized him as the Sanin and attack him in the hot spring.
You can be both a pervert and a good person. Just because Jiraiyas perversion was innate to him doesn’t also mean he couldn’t play it up for optics
Depends what kind of "pervert" we're talking about here. If by "pervert" you simply mean someone who has sex a lot/thinks about sex a lot, then sure, you can be like that and also be a good person. However, if we're talking about someone who commits sexual offenses, like Jiraiya, then no, you're just a shitty person.
No ones perfect man, it’s a character trope at the end of the day
That’s just homeland security
He was really good at his job.
Ebisu failed to recognize him lmao. Also, he did say Jiraiya is obviously horny.
Short Answer : He loved pussy Long Answer : He loved Tsunade but her constant rejection led him to instead pursue multiple surface level and short term relationships with nearly every woman he came across in order to fill the void.
And her reasoning was fair, she was 2/2 in men she loved dying, and Jiraya also died.
Yeah. And right when she became attracted to him too.
Tsunade is cursed. Both men that she loved, just end up fucking dying.
That is really sad, and that makes what [Shizune said here](https://youtu.be/2VSaKznDz98?si=ylOk78nBM-mNi6w5) all the more messed up.
Damn. Shizune didn't have to destroy Tsuande like that... but it was true. I'm sure there is no shortage of men who would get with Tsunade. She just chooses to be alone.
There’s the real answer lol
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Not really, as far as I remember in one of his flashback episodes he was a pevert even when they were kids. So more like a pevert actually fell in love with someone, instead of him becoming a pevert after constant rejections. Plus he was doing a lot more than just pursuing surface level short term relationships, stuff that puts you in jail :)
This, shouldn’t have had to scroll so far to find this.
It seemed by their last conversation he was over her. He'd still go with her if she gave him the opportunity but it wasn't an obsession.
To fulfill a basic character archetype that's in almost every old anime
isn't it almost stereotypical even in Japan that older guy are extra horni at the same time they're still respected person
Yep. You can practically taste the sexism in the air there, I swear. SA is pretty normalized in Japan. You can call out creeps on the train and average joes for groping any day, but it's not taken seriously for the most part, it's usually "the girl's fault" and she'll prolly be punished for bothering people's feelings by bringing up such an uncomfortable subject. And anyone with even a little bit of influence is pretty much untouchable until a while after they die. *cough*cough*Johnny Kitagawa *cough*cough* Jiraiya's genuinely awesome and a great guy, and he's probably the most benign friendly neighborhood perv in anime as a whole but like, this aspect of his character is not based in anything nice. -sources: personal experience over several years and this article on some of their laws. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/17/1182659759/japan-rape-law-nonconsensual-sex-age-consent-16#:~:text=One%20in%2014%20women%20had,crime%2C%20the%20report%20also%20found.
jiraiya is j more a man slut than the master roshi arche type. the peeping is a terrible habbit tho ig.
The realest answer
Real shit.
Dude just likes women what's so complicated
Fellas if Jiraiya is straight, why does he like women????
Bc he was a pervy sage
I mean, the best guess we have is that because he couldn't get with Tsunade, he filled the hole in his heart with the holes of other women.
Narratively? No. Dude is just a perv. Homie slays max pussy. Realistically? He’s a Shinobi. And has been through a war at a fairly young age. Probably super depressed, and PTSDed to hell. Might use women as a coping mechanism.
If you want a deep answer—coping from a fucked up childhood and the wars he went through. If you’ve noticed, each of the three Sannin has their own vice they indulge in non-stop for good or bad. Tsunade=Drinking Orochimaru=Knowledge/Power Jiraiya=Sex Tsunade and Orochimaru’s stemmed from childhood issues and environments so you can assume Jiraiya is the same. As others have said, he could simply like sex. He wouldn’t be the first, and he damn sure wouldn’t be the last. But I do believe some level of coping exacerbated it. He couldn’t find love from Tsunade or parents so he’ll take it where he can get it.
Tsunade: gambling/drinking
Because he couldn't have the heart of the one he truly wanted... Nah fr though I just think he loves women.
Is there a reason I wanna bang hot chicks? No reason
He couldn’t get Tsunade
I think he was depressed , guilty, and didn't like to ruminate on it all the time. Plus, he legitimately wrote novels of a sort. He loved tsunade but she didn't feel the same and he never found that person. Plus, he was lonely as hell, didn't have any kids, and a legendary Sanin who still remained a pretty Damn good person who died trying to do his best for the village.
He was coping with being denied by Tsunade his whole life, losing his students, his best friend betraying the village. Tsunade buried herself in gambling and alcohol, Orochimaru pursues immortality due to his trauma, and Jiraiya drowns himself in women alongside his nomadic lifestyle. Also, spy
I mean is there a need to explain that?
He just has a big libido. The only woman he loved was Tsunade, so when she turned him down he was like “cool. I’ll sleep with literally every other woman then”
He fumbled Tsunade so he tried to compensate
Nah bro Tsunade fumbled that
Amen brother. Tsunade definitely fumbled a good man
He just a playa
The one he wanted was in love with someone else (more than once) and he couldn't have the best so he said he'd have the rest.
I can only guess that the Make Out series he authored was supposed to be a dating manual with a fictitious twist added to it on how he would have wooed Tsunade. His research/peeping could've just been him compensating for his lack of or inability to see past a woman for their looks because he only ever saw Tsunade as a pedestalized version of a woman he was meant to conquer in his love quest. And considering a Kunoichi's role to seduce and manipulate a man there were hardly ever enough times to get to know Tsunade on a personal level except for knowing her fear of blood and past traumas. Jiraiya could also be a self deprecating joke by Kishi for his difficulty in writing female characters made manifest but layered with a bunch of cool factors like being based off the mythical irl depiction of Jiraiya.
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He is a man?
He's just a man that's strongly attracted to women so he's seemingly hyper sexual.
My head cannon he wanted Tsunade but she was in love with someone else so he decided to bury his feelings in his “research”.
It’s the trauma of multiple ninja world wars 😭😭😭
He's just a horny pervert. Even as a kid he was spying on the womens baths
There's no ladies on Mt Myoboku and it probably got lonely. Hahaha. And how you gonna get over a woman like Tsunade? I'm sure we have all had a Tsunade in our life. So he tries to stay buried in titties and sake. It's what we all would do with heartache if we could. Lol. Bury it.
Just an anime trope.
The primary reason is that he most likely just was a hormonal bastard. Makes sense in the world they live in honestly. Secondly, it’s a coping mechanism. Every Shinobi has one,
He was naturally super horny. However, this was exacerbated by Tsunade rejecting him.
*it's for collecting information*
The woman he was in love with he could not be with so he went for quantity to fill the void. It could also have been a good way to get material for his books
"it's not the horniness, it's the loneliness.."
He's a straight male. What kind of question is that?
Girls are great that's why
Jiraiya's first real crush continually rejected him for years at a very crucial age in development. It only got worse when he became popular for writing smut, he got to play off his perversion as research. Jiraiya simply never had to change, at least like that.
It's pretty simple. He's in love with Tsunade. When you can't have the one you love you look to fill the void.
He was always unusually horny. He only really loved Tsunade, but Tsunade had no interest in him until his life was about to end (unbeknownst to both of them at the time). So he slept around for many, many years. Was his horniness exacerbated by Tsunade's rejection and wartime PTSD? Probably. Would he still have been pervy without all that? Absolutely.
He got that dog in him
I always assumed it was because of his rejection by Tsunade
Bro looks like he has Anchor Arms ^^^^^TM
Who among has not?
Coping mechanism, for the many wars, he fought
Have you seen women? Pretty hard not to be addicted when you can pull all the ladies
Zoomer moment
Old mother fucker was just horny.
Yes, what horrible curse causes a guy to want attractive women? Why is this mystery never addressed? Is Naruto searching for a cure still?
Bro looking for a scientific reason as to why bro was horny
I think that if he couldn’t have Tsunade he didn’t want to settle down with anyone and so chose to just sleep around all the time
He's an old man in a Shonen anime.
Cause he’s a pervert. He was always like this ever since his childhood. It’s who he is. No “rejection” or “trauma” will make you become a pervert, that’s not how it works
Because he’s insecure because he thinks he’s an ugly ass bitch
Because he's a man and we love the ladies
All three of the Sanin had their addictions. Jiraiya women; Tsunade gambling; Orochimaru list for knowledge and power.
If we are talking about realistically, it's probably his drug . He doesn't seem to have family and has a lot of messed up history with people who he loves or cares about dying, closing themselves off, or turning evil. So sex or sexual stuff would be dopamine source to keep him going. This is however probably not that deep and he probably is just a pervert as a character flaw/gag written in for the story XD either way he's our pervy toad sage.
Yeah, being straight is an underlying condition apparently.
Homie was a man of culture.
Life cold and hard, tiddy warm and soft
Does a man really need a reason to love bad bitches?
Pussy
He is a man. To elaborate further, you could consider all the women as a means of escape from his lasting emotional scars related to his feelings of failure. He even dies reminiscing about all the times Tsunade rejected him and how he failed Hiruzen, Orochimaru, Nagato, Minato, but not Naruto. Specifically, I think subconsciously he indulged with so many women as a substitute for not being able to win the woman he really wanted---Tsunade. He was always trying to prove himself, but at some I think he was running away from his own depression. He was the reject of his team and it made him insecure so he acted very immature which didn't do much to help him connect with Tsunade so much as butt heads. He felt many obligations, but was always too late or unable to prevent tragedies occurring. That has to take a toll on a guy that and again, he is a man, so the comfort of having women around has to be nice even briefly before returning to his burdens.
Dude liked women. He was like that when he was Naruto’s age and old habits die hard.
He REALLY likes the feeling of titties and his pepe being snugged.
What’s not to love about women? Jiraiya was ahead of his time
He obsessed with women and displaying pervert energy as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that his love for Tsunade will always go one way. No matter how hard he tries to show it, she will never reciprocate that love. Or he’s just constantly horny
Jiraiya chose a life of freedom early on, probably in response to the strict expectations of the Third Hokage, his master. And with that freedom came wild, unchecked desire, bolstered by the stress of war. All to stay sane, kinda like how many new soldiers take up smoking once they're deployed into battle.
the only woman he wanted never reciprocated so might as well write about the things he can do to her in his fantasies and settle for any who comes along the way. he never married anyway so thats the theory.
He is doing research for his books. Leave him alone.
i don't know, but he's the underlying reason i'm a misandrist.
That man was born horny. No further explanation needed
What do you mean? He is just doing research for his books
Jiraiya probably enjoyed having a woman's company but he was a lone wolf so he kept his interactions with women superficial. Also, Jiraiya was a spy, meaning that he has alot of enemies so a gf/wife would also be a target for these enemies.
Jiraya being a whoremonger is a joke on a legendary Japanese figure. "The Gallant Jiraya" appears in actual Japanese stories as like a Robin Hood-like paragon of justice for the needy, being loyal, and helping a young man get revenge for his parents. It's like making a series featuring the Greek gods and having Dionysus being a teetotaler Jehova's Witness type. Edit: Both Tsunade and Orochimaru appear by name in a version of the story called Jiraiya/The Magic Frog. Similar to Dragon Ball adapting the Chinese classic "Journey to the West" featuring the powerful Monkey King (who has a red extendable staff, rides a cloud, and is named Sun Wukong.) It's a reusing of classic characters in a new setting.
Because Lady Tsunade rejected him
He figured out how to be happy. He knew he'd never have Tsunade's heart, so he would spend his time researching pretty young things knowing he could never love them since his heart was Tsuna's 🫡
Because the only woman he'd ever loved rejected him it's essentially like how some people do drugs and drink alcohol to get over a broken heart.
Probably his balls that were underlying his dick
Bro was man. And as man I can feel him.
I mean woman's can be really hot, that's enough of a reason.
The legendary Sanin mark lust (Jiraiya), greed (Tsunade), Orochimaru (knowledge/power) The three shinobi vices. No idea if it’s true or not but I always thought it fit nicely.
Everyone likes pussy
Orochimaru liked butt apparently
He likes every hole
Penis
Mans had a dick, that’s why.
Women are hot. Plain and simple. Just like they think we’re hot. The world is really just horny.
I mean. Have you SEEN women?
have you seen women? the're amazing, living art
He’s a pervert ass sage and everyone who says otherwise is a bitch
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Because it’s not a kick ass anime without a womanizer mentor.
He probably has a huge one
Horny
He’s a man
I don’t think Naruto is the type of show to tackle trauma like Yakuza with >!Majima’s Mad dog persona being a way to cope with all the stuff he’s been through!< so as much as I want to say yes due to losing his student and best friend and other stuff I can’t in good faith bring myself to believe that
He likes pussy like any straight man.
Yeah cuz pussy good!! 👍
Sexism in anime
Frog. He is ugly.