What tickles me most about this essay is that, assuming it's our exchange on your last post that you were referencing, I wasn't actually intending to comment on the nudity at the spa at all. It hadn't even crossed my mind when I read it.
I was actually commenting on the more amorous thing of those businesses/storefronts in ethnic neighborhoods that beckon and tease with their mysterious otherness, but that most people don't have the courage to investigate for fear of rejection, feeling unwelcome, out of place. And I was loving that you had no such fears.
But then you took it as a comment on Nudity Courage, so *shrug* I went with it. And look, you got a whole piece out of it... ;-)
Your comment did indirectly inspire the topic. Nudity is the thing many Americans are surprised about/comment on with regard to k-spas. Mostly everything else is pretty straightforward and not exotic, at least in my opinion.
A Japanese man once explained the blur-censorship of pornography here. I had mentioned how frustrating it was for me--what is the point of porn if we cannot see in very graphic, zooooomed in detail the super naughty things--and he said, “Some things really need to be kept to the imagination. That’s what is hot.”
I didn’t agree with him then and I don’t agree with him now. But I appreciated the take.
I agree with that in regards to, say, a burlesque show where teasing the imagination is part of the titillation but, I also agree with you that it is a misapplied opinion for porn. Plus, as a swerve on pornography in Japan, doesn't hentai shows all?
What tickles me most about this essay is that, assuming it's our exchange on your last post that you were referencing, I wasn't actually intending to comment on the nudity at the spa at all. It hadn't even crossed my mind when I read it.
I was actually commenting on the more amorous thing of those businesses/storefronts in ethnic neighborhoods that beckon and tease with their mysterious otherness, but that most people don't have the courage to investigate for fear of rejection, feeling unwelcome, out of place. And I was loving that you had no such fears.
But then you took it as a comment on Nudity Courage, so *shrug* I went with it. And look, you got a whole piece out of it... ;-)
Your comment did indirectly inspire the topic. Nudity is the thing many Americans are surprised about/comment on with regard to k-spas. Mostly everything else is pretty straightforward and not exotic, at least in my opinion.
Apparently many Germans do their swimming naked. They don't seem to have the same puritanical streak and hang-ups as Anglo culture.
I wouldn't have expected that, but why not?
A Japanese man once explained the blur-censorship of pornography here. I had mentioned how frustrating it was for me--what is the point of porn if we cannot see in very graphic, zooooomed in detail the super naughty things--and he said, “Some things really need to be kept to the imagination. That’s what is hot.”
I didn’t agree with him then and I don’t agree with him now. But I appreciated the take.
I agree with that in regards to, say, a burlesque show where teasing the imagination is part of the titillation but, I also agree with you that it is a misapplied opinion for porn. Plus, as a swerve on pornography in Japan, doesn't hentai shows all?