Now... I've been involved in some neatadventures in Japan—and have even been involved with a few women that make anyguys head spin to check out.
Yet, through it all... I've never been asukebe (pervert). I may have been jokingly called one—and I didn't deny it, butin reality I'm not one. I've not been the initiator.
There's the idea that the Japanese arevery reserved and dignified... and I suppose they are... but then you see themat a party and everyone is hammered drunk hitting on anything in a skirt.
It was rumoured—and I can't prove it—thatwell over half of the married men in Japan were purported to have a mistress. Iwouldn't say that about some of the old guys I knew, but it is possible. I haveno proof of that.
However... there's a book on that topic -Go HERE to read an excerpt.
There was a club in my home town of Ohtawara-shi, Tochigi-ken calledthe London Club... it was for perverts - or so my students and co-workers told me.
Despite it being about a four minutedrunken stagger away from my apartment, I never entertained thoughts of goinginto the place.
Okay... I did have thoughts... I wascurious... but to be honest, as a member of the JET (Japan Exchange &Teaching) Programme, I was a representative of my country. I represented Canadain Japan, and I was damned if I was going to jeopardize that -especially when I had no idea what actually went on in that club.
If that place still exists in Ohtawara,they haven't seen fit to have themselves included on the worldwide web.
Also... Japan—despite its need to blackout pubic hair in men's adult magazines and porno movies, it did allowpublication of a comic book serial called Rape Man.
How is that something normal for a dulland boringly polite society? It's because they are just as repressed as yoursociety.
However... along with bukkake—you and a few friends can get together and look that one up—Japan is also famous for havingoriginated 'sharking'.
What is sharking? Well... it's when a manin a public place sneaks up behind a woman wearing a short shirt and pulls downher panties for everyone to see. It's dreadfully embarrassing or evenem-bare-ass-ing. It's also illegal.
While similar to the old school yardprank - ie bullying—called pantsing, sharking is done for sexual stimulation bythe one pulling down the panties.
While this crime does have its originsin Japan, it has spread to Europe—and there's even a topsharking thing going onwhere a guy will pull the top of a woman down to expose her breasts. Pullingthe panties down in Europe is called bottom sharking.
Whatever it's called, it's stupid.
Somewhere we're going to need a biggerboat,
Andrew Joseph
Today's song is sung by Avril Lavigne: PANTS
PS: I used to own a Hyundai Tiberon...tiberon is Spanish for 'shark'. Other than that, there is no other connection to my life.
PPS: The 'Somewhere we're going to need abigger boat' is me paraphrasing a line from the movie Jaws. You can see thatscene: HERE
