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- - - mod.singles- - -            - - -  Volume 1, Issue 9 - - -

"Japan's Sex industry as number 1", by Kobayashi Kazuyoshi (in
"Japan quarterly" Jul-Sept 1984, pg 278)

Japans sex industry is flurishing.  Some are predicting it will soon
join autos, videotape recorders, and robots on the list of industries
in which Japan is a world leader.
  Currently popular trends are turkish baths, bottomless coffee shops,
and "Lovers-banks"(Glorified call-girl services).  Nudity and sex
abound on late night TV and in weekly magazines, although magazine
sensors assiduously blacken in the offending areas on nude photos.
Few countries can rival Japan in the variety of sexual pleasures
available or in the sheer scale of the industry.
  Many Japanese are calling for stricter government regulation.
Opponents point out that this would limit freedom of expression,
and question how to define pornography and whether there is
a connection between pornography and crime.  A decade ago, few women
other than prostitutes would have considered working in the sex
industry.  Today, many female office workers, university students,
and even housewives see nothing wrong with supplimenting their income
by working part time in bottomless coffee shops and other dubious
establishments.  As long as the standards of morality remain vague,
japan's mammoth sex industry will continue to thrive.
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