Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!menlo70!sri-unix!billw From: billw@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.singles Subject: Posting... Message-ID: <1687@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:05:29 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1687 Posted: Mon Oct 22 06:05:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 01:20:07 EDT Sender: chuqui@nsc.UUCP Lines: 29 Approved: chuqui@nsc.UUCP - - - 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. ---------------------- -- Mod.singles postings should be mailed to 'nsc!singles' administrivia should be mailed to 'nsc!singles-request' nsc talks to {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}