Japanorama Part 2: Ai and Koi

[_Aya_]

This episode was the most interesting to me so it comes in a post of its own. Japan is so gender-confused it’s outrageous. It’s a country whose culture was never tabooed by Christianity or Islam, people aren’t embarrassed of intimate talks and it has all the love hotels so you’d think it should have no problems in that department and yet there are host clubs and Takarazuka and air sex and it’s so complicated and fucked up you can’t help but wonder how the Japanese survived at all.

With all the hentai and games and those android life-size dolls women feel seriously left out. That’s why they turn to boy-bands and host clubs and Takarazuka and Yaoi.

Host clubs I knew there are many host clubs with female hostesses and quite a few with make hosts, but I haven’t heard about clubs where women are serviced by other women dressed as men.
Takarazuka When I watched Ouran Host Club, the episodes about Loberia Academy I didn’t know this kind of culture actually exists and very popular.
I’m not even going to start about Yaoi…

All of this seems like a reflection of the ancient problem: men want sex and women want romance. Sometimes it seems to me they belong to totally different species.
I’m trying not to judge. I feel I am a part of this. I’m all for diversity, but there is a thin line between variety and deviation.

@темы: issues

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[Neko-chyan]

а еще и театр, где все роли исполняют женщины... тоже ведь дико популярен... и среди парней...

[_Aya_]

Это и есть Takarazuka)

[Neko-chyan]