Enjo Kosai
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Reading manga, watching Japanese movies you know you are facing a sexual ethos wholly different from ours in the land of the illusorily free and the home of the naïve. Here's an article exploring Japanese assisted dating. In America an assisted date would get you in lots of trouble: fired, harassed by neighbors, possibly tossed in jail to become the most despised species of the incarcerated.
On the streets of the major cities, porn is sold in vending machines and on street corners yet no pubic hair can be shown. While in convenience stores around the country, people casually leaf through manga (comics) depicting gang rape and extreme sexual violence. The ancient custom of arranged marriages continues while ‘Love Hotels’ flourish, catering for anonymous sexual encounters and ‘office love’. Buttoned down salary men pay hundreds of dollars at late night ‘Snack Bars’ for the privilege of flirting with a younger woman – the modern day geisha – while others join the ranks of flashers, train gropers and public masturbators who constitute the after dark sleaze of the entertainment district before returning home to their families.
‘Enjo Kosai’ : Sex, Schoolgirls and Consumerism in Japan