XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc
From: shlf@fuspamma.freenet.carleton.ca
Gilles Poitras wrote:
> In article ,
> Dave Watson wrote:
>
>> When I first read that, I immediately went, "You mean they have a
>> *legal* sex industry?"
>
> Well in a sense so does the US with strip clubs, lap dancers etc.
True, but, with the exception of Nevada, selling actual sex/foreplay is
still illegal in the States, correct?
> It is
> also that in the US many activities that are legal in Japan are even
> illegal for consenting, and even married, adults, in some US states. Not
> that those laws often enforced.
Why they haven't thrown those laws out after all this time, I'll never know.
> As for my having so many entries in this area, until recently I did not
> have secondary sources on the sex trade that were all that reliable or
> informative. With the Constantine book (it took me several years to find
> a used copy) and the publication of Pink Box last year I have two good
> sources all of a sudden.
Well, I'm not putting discussion of that sort of thing down. Let's just
say that visiting an adult bookstore in Osaka was quite an experience.
Dog videos and mags with women dumping in washbasins are available and
out on the shelves, but unpixillated tabs and slots aren't? I didn't
buy anything; hell, just the manga I bought was enough to get Canada
Customs prickly with me (right, Comics Journal readers?), and I knew I
didn't want to make it worse.
> Hum perhaps the next Anime Companion book will be noted for such
> material just as the second was for historical information.
And why not? History's a part of life, and so is sex.
Watson
Sometimes both at the same time: "I have to take History in order to
graduate? Screw History!"
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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