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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I read Laura Millers fascinating article Mammary Mania in Japan (2003, Positions: 11/2, pp. 271-300) yesterday. Her conclusion reads:The history of female breasts in Japan is interesting because it illustrates the power of media models, the influence of American culture, and how easily and quickly culturally molded behaviors and ideas become ( 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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Today I saw this exchange of comments in a post on something or other in the community feminist_geeks.

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I even cut my nails and now I have nothing to say. I'd just like to keep some sort of momentum with blogging because it sometimes really chagrins me to see that I haven't blogged more than few times in the space of a few months. Eurovision semis are over and the final's on Saturday. Very exciting. Here's Satan tempting Booth into shooting Lincoln.

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I have nothing much to say, so here's Ueto Aya leaning forward so her nipples show.

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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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