Just read about this at lonleeplanet. From the post:
The first instance of tentacle eroticism (aka squid porn) is largely attributed to legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai who created an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) genre around 1820 called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (aka ‘Pearl Diver and Two Octopuses’) depicting a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses.
Awesome on so many levels.
I dunno what it is about gyms at my schools, but I think I once again caught something shady going down. A male gym teacher and a female student were supposedly talking during lunch in his gym office even though I usually see him meet with students in the teacher’s room.
I had wandered into the gym to take a quick nap but the student came out before I could lie down. Puzzled, I asked what she was doing there. Her response was that she was talking to the teacher. I thought it was odd but didn’t jump immediately to conclusions. It wasn’t until 30 seconds later, when the gym teacher came out and gave an “I’ve been caught” look that I started suspecting something.
So a female student and a male teacher were having a private meeting in a secluded location which deviates from the usual meeting spot and was also held at a time when most other students and teachers would be occupied. Hmmm…
This is speculation and completely unsubstantiated, but still, one can’t help but wonder.
I go to school early, I stay late and I return for PTA meetings. Why? Because mothers of Japanese Elementary Schools students are fucking hot and the effort is well-rewarded (well, not as well as it could be).
Many of these women got married maybe 1 or 2 years after high school and started having kids not too long after that. This results in a large number of mothers having elementary school-aged kids before they turn 30.
I wouldn’t wish that situation on any of my friends but I’ve come to appreciate it here.
Each morning is like a fashion show. They come dressed-to-impress in decked out vans and wagons. Truth be told, I don’t understand why they go all-out just to drop their kids off at shogakko, but I like to believe it’s because they know I’m looking.
Don’t you hate it when you see what you believe to be a potentially cute girl, start thinking of openers, start approaching and then realize it’s actually a guy?
This has happened to me more than a few times now. Fucking Japanese Androgyny
A student asked me if I thought his girlfriend was cute. Relationships tend to be kept out of ear-reach or eye-shot of teachers so I felt pretty proud that they were comfortable dropping the silence with me.
But on the other hand, what could I say? He obviously wanted an affirmation on his girlfriend choice but before I even made a judgement I realized there was no good that could come of any answer.
If I said “no”, I would have just told him, his girlfriend (who was standing there, smiling, waiting to hear a “yes”) and all the other students in the vicinity that I essentially find her–the love of his life and one of my students–ugly.
If I said “yes”, then both he she would content, but theres no telling what warped version of my statement would’ve started circulating the Rural Japan Town News Network.
I was at an impasse; do I shatter his fragile ego or risk having rumors start?
I ended up doing neither. I responded using a bunch of S.A.T. words, laughed as if some joke was told and then changed the subject. They didn’t catch what I said and needless to say, he opted not to ask again.
Here’s another translated survey from What Japan Thinks (I’m a big fan of this site). This time, it’s about the little white lies than Japanese men and women tell:
The Women:
| Rank | Score | |
| 1 | My weight | 100 |
| 2 | How many guys I’ve been out with before | 92.6 |
| 3 | Whether I have a current boyfriend | 45.7 |
| 4 | How long I haven’t had a boyfriend for | 44.4 |
| 5 | How good (or bad) I am at cooking | 35.8 |
| 6 | How good I am at doing housework | 30.9 |
| 7= | Talking about a common hobby | 28.4 |
| 7= | How I spend my days off | 28.4 |
| 9 | Pretending that I bought myself stuff I actually received as a gift | 27.2 |
| 10= | How bad I am at getting up in the morning | 23.5 |
| 10= | How much savings I have | 23.5 |
| 10= | My age | 23.5 |
| 13 | What hobbies I’m really into | 22.2 |
| 14 | When I have to be home by at night | 13.6 |
| 15 | The kind of guy I fancy | 12.3 |
| 16= | How much I spend on my hobbies | 8.6 |
| 16= | My salary | 8.6 |
| 18= | How much I spend on clothes | 7.4 |
| 18= | What kind of work I do | 7.4 |
| 18= | My height | 7.4 |
I love how women primarily lie to keep their current or future marriages in check. Regardless of age (teens to 60+ year olds), Japanese Women seem the most concerned about maintaining a “good wife” image.
Men are also concerned with their image, but it doesn’t appear to be as big of a deal:
| Rank | Score | |
| 1 | How many girls I’ve been out with before | 100 |
| 2 | How long I haven’t had a girlfriend for | 76.6 |
| 3 | Whether I have a current girlfriend | 51.9 |
| 4 | How I spend my days off | 42.9 |
| 5 | The kind of girl I fancy | 40.3 |
| 6 | Talking about a common hobby | 39.0 |
| 7 | What hobbies I’m really into | 37.7 |
| 8= | What fetishes I have about women | 28.6 |
| 8= | How much savings I have | 28.6 |
| 8= | My salary | 28.6 |
| 11 | My age | 26.0 |
| 12 | My weight | 22.1 |
| 13 | What kind of work I do | 16.9 |
| 14= | How bad I am at getting up in the morning | 15.6 |
| 14= | How much I spend on my hobbies | 15.6 |
| 14= | My height | 15.6 |
| 17 | How good I am at doing housework | 11.7 |
| 18 | Pretending that I bought myself stuff I actually received as a gift | 9.1 |
| 19 | How good (or bad) I am at cooking | 7.8 |
| 20 | How good I am at driving | 6.5 |
I just read about Chikan (groping) Groups at JapanProbe.com. I knew there were some perverts but damn, I didn’t realize it was this serious. There are websites dedicated to chikan and ball-less motherfuckers give tips on how to grope females, the best places to grope them and even arrange meetups for group groping.
It has gotten so out of hand that the police now have special task forces to combat it.
On one hand, I’m happy it’s not “worse” than groping. Luckily, the scum who opt to molest women on trains limit it to fondling and nothing more sever. In the west, I feel if I heard a story like this on the news that it’d be of rape.
But on the other hand, I can’t help but think that because it’s only fondling, and because the attackers don’t use weapons (as far as I can tell, they just get close to the women), why the fuck aren’t these women kneeing them in the balls, poking their eyes out, stabbing them with pens or just screaming “PERVERT!”? The silence gives these cowards the confidence to continue their perverse activity.
But that also comes from it being a different culture. Women here don’t always feel empowered to defend themselves physically or audibly. It’s a shame but their second class citizen status gives their attackers more free reign to let their hands roam.
Anyway, here’s a clip (with English Captions) of the news piece:
The latest survey from What Japan Thinks is on secret fetishes of Japanese men:
Q: What’s your secret favourite fetish? (Sample Size = 495, male)
| 1 | Skin between knee socks and skirt | 100 |
| 2 | Athletic thighs | 89.5 |
| 3 | Voice | 75.4 |
| 4= | Smell | 70.2 |
| 4= | Small breasts | 70.2 |
| 6 | Big bums | 56.1 |
| 7 | Lower lips | 31.6 |
| 8 | Small hands | 28.1 |
| 9 | Indent around collar bone | 26.3 |
| 10 | Upper lips | 24.6 |
| 11 | Firm upper arms | 21.1 |
| 12= | Blood vessels visible through white skin | 19.3 |
| 12= | White bits left after tanning | 19.3 |
| 14 | Droopy eyes | 17.5 |
| 15 | Earlobes | 14.0 |
| 16= | Broad shoulders | 12.3 |
| 16= | Wide forehead | 12.3 |
| 18= | Belly buttons | 8.8 |
| 18= | Excess hair | 8.8 |
| 18= | Single-folded eyelids | 8.8 |
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Check out the bolded 2nd, 4th (tie) and 6th fetishes. All signs point to ass. Japanese men are ass guys.
I am constantly surprised by the skanktity of women’s style here. Every time I think I’ve seen the worst of it, I come across an even younger girl wearing even sluttier clothing. Mom’s even try to live whorishly and vicariously through their scantily clad daughters.
Women and the ho-sential pieces of their wardrobe contributed to my initial culture shock in Japan. Some of what they wear here might even attract stares from regular strip club goers back in the states. But it’s cultural. They don’t necessarily view things the same way here. Scandalous dressing screams “attention whore” in both countries but in America it also just screams “whore”. In Japan, it’s just a style of dress.
Of course, if no one tells you this before you arrive, you may find yourself confused as hell. You treat them the way they dress but for some unknown reason they expect respect. What kind of non sequitur bullshit is this?
World renown sociologist Dave Chappelle referred to this phenomenon in an earlier thesis circa 1999. Here’s the excerpt from his speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1KHqi9bXc
*all pictures were borrowed from the blog of Singapore Girl in Berlin
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