2008-01-12, 18:19 | Link #481 |
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Yes, there are a lot of Love Hotels in Japan. Tokyo has several areas where there are a lot of them. Some of them are pretty fancy too. If you are really stuck, they can even be a fairly reasonable alternative for overnight accomodation, compared to all but the cheapest business hotels.
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2008-01-13, 01:00 | Link #483 | |
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Love Hotels serve a *vital* purpose in providing getaways, quiet places for fun and frolic. Its becoming more common for a single individual to rent them just to have a quiet place to reflect (particularly with the themed room hotels). As far as the sex, you just have to pack up any cultural baggage you have and put it away. This is Japan, not Kansas...
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2008-01-13, 03:09 | Link #485 |
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Hardly. As human beings we tend to form relationships with our mates due to the way we're wired, and (directly and indirectly) that is going to result in some "rules" no matter what culture you're in. Now, Japan has had some, uh, interesting customs compared to the western world, but no matter how wild some segments of the population get, there are still "rules".
"Less baggage about sex" doesn't mean free love or complete openness about sexuality. It means there's less prejudice and unnecessary shame over this completely natural part of the human experience.
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2008-01-13, 16:15 | Link #487 | |
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2008-01-13, 17:52 | Link #488 | |
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2008-01-13, 18:42 | Link #492 | |
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There is something very wrong with this line of questioning.
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2008-01-13, 20:25 | Link #493 | |
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Unless your talking about groping, I have never heard of actual rape on a train. It's pretty hard to initiate forced s0x with alot of spectators standing right next to you. |
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2008-01-13, 21:52 | Link #495 |
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well... "rape is like a handshake" didn't score you any karma points because even by just making such an inane statement - it becomes difficult to not think you're trolling.
What I meant back up there about Kansas and Japan wasn't that Japan didn't have its own set of taboos and cultural values, only that they are different. ... just that *assuming* that the values in your neighborhood are the "only way things should be run" and that right-thinking people naturally think the same way ... is a bad assumption. As far as public transport goes... groping in the tightly packed trains does occur and its an abuse of the 'polite culture' ... fortunately, the women (and the more civic-minded men) are starting to not put up with it anymore (hence the more frequent reports of capture).
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2008-01-14, 02:50 | Link #496 |
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Just to hopefully get this thread back into more productive directions (?), anyone know if "travel shows" are popular in Japan? Everyone knows the stereotypical pack of camera-toting japanese... but did they watch the Japanese equivalent of Globe Trekker or Rick Steves (and is there such a thing?) before they went traveling?
I've seen game shows, news, sport.. but I can't remember seeing a travel show.
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2008-01-14, 07:56 | Link #497 | |
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The last one I saw was like 7 years ago >_> |
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2008-01-14, 09:01 | Link #498 |
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Every so often I go downstairs to watch TV (it's fascinating here, let me tell you!) and one of the few local channels this quiet little countryside has features a travel segment every so often. The last episode I saw was on Sweden, and the hosts talked about the food, laws, the people, and the snow(!) there.
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2008-01-17, 01:54 | Link #500 | |
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