I've been really into researching kabuki again lately, and I always find the best stuff when I'm looking into kabuki-related things.


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This morning I woke up to see a lot of traffic from Reddit. Apparently this old post of mine was linked to in the Today I Learned sub-reddit (disclaimer: I don't really understand how Reddit works, which probably shouldn't surprise anyone seeing as I still use Lj a decade after it was sold off to Russians). Pretty embarrassing to have people on ( Read more... )

Holy shit it's been months since I last wrote here ( Read more... )

In his controversial and largely academically discredited book, The Naked Ape, zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris argued that the human females mammaries evolved into such rounded and erotic things because humans lost the direct line of sight to the ass when they became bipedal. In other primates the buttocks are erogenous, and the mammaries ( Read more... )

I don't have anything much to say. It's cold as fuck here, so I'm really looking forward to escaping to Japan. Not that it's warm there, because it's freezing, but I have fantasies of wearing shorts.


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This entry is about Japanese ritual orgies ( Read more... )

Speaking of things that tap into a history of erotica that dates at least as far back as the 17th- to 19th-century.

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Recently I was linked to the following New York Times article about Bill 156, the Tokyo legislation bill restricting materials that might be overly stimulating to minors that will come to force in July ( Read more... )

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There's a Japanese urban legend called 口裂け女 (kuchisake onna 'split-mouth woman').
Translating freely, the common version of it goes like this:An elementary school kid is walking home from school, when a woman in a red coat calls out "Hey, am I pretty?". The woman's wearing a gauze face mask (like the Japanese wear), but still looks like a beautiful ( Read more... )