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With the compliance of religion and government, Japan is the most bohemian sexual culture on earth. By Chauncey Hollingsworth
The next time you visit, come around behind the house.
"My friends and I were out celebrating after playing soccer. We had dinner, drank, and went to a karaoke bar. You sit down and they bring really crappy little dishes for you to eat, and everyone pays 2000 yen. It's all-you-can-drink and all you can sing for $15. They put the cheapest vodka and powdered orange juice on the table, and you mix your own drinks. You can get beer, but it's the cheapest beer. We spent a couple hours there getting trashed. Finally, we're trying to get our shit together and leave, and our friend Ryuugi, we're looking for him. Somebody says he's in the bathroom. So I went to look in there, but the stall was closed. It was a full door; it wasn't like you could peek in anywhere, either. So I just left him alone because I didn't know what was going on. He finally comes out and he tells me that this girl asked him to come in there, and then she showed him her breasts, and he played with them a little bit...she was with two or three girls who were looking at him earlier, saying he's so cute and that sort of thing. She put her mouth on him, did him orally, but finally she just pulled up her skirt and said, 'Go ahead and stick it in me.'" In Tokyo, decadence and diligence crush against one another like claustrophobic commuters on the city's suffocating rush-hour trains. The pachinko parlors, the sex stores and the head shops selling bongs and psychedelic fungi offer a scintillating panorama that offset long work hours, flat gray suits and a national fixation on mathematically precise manners. Asian countries such as Thailand are famed for their lax sex laws and epicurean tourism, but Japan manages to elevate hedonism from simple carnality to something slightly more refined, if only because its dignified geishas have an ancient history and its prostitutes have a 99 percent literacy rate. Japan has an elegant debauchery that's evolved through the centuries, past wars, civil and otherwise, making Tokyo an orgiastic playground that makes the sex hives of Las Vegas or New York seem both tamer and cruder by comparison.
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