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S'està carregant… Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubsde Joan Sinclair
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. One of my greatest turn-ons is sexual variance, especially when it's commercialized into a menu of different sexual services and locations. I had the biggest sexual-taxonomy boner flipping through this fabulous book. Lots of close-ups of brothel "menus" featuring anything from eyeglasses to "infinity shape" "breast service." It even has a (spoiler alert!) glossary. Excuse me, I need some time alone. Fascinating photo book that does what it says on the tin. Sinclair spent over a year trying to get access to the clubs and permission to take pics, which was hard enough being both a gaijin and a woman. That’s also why there aren’t all that many clubs covered, but she manages to capture the sheer variety of the types of clubs you can find, what’s allowed and what’s not. Typical for Japan, the sex club industry is as playful as it is imaginative. Very cool.
Feminist, journalist, lawyer, photographer, and former English teacher Joan Sinclair has produced a fascinating work on Japan’s ubiquitous sex industry. Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs takes the reader places most of us will never get to. In Tokyo's Shinjuku, Osaka's Umeda, Kyoto's Kiyamachi, and throughout the country, women dress up like “nurses, policewomen, and commuting secretaries to provide men with fantasy services acted out in elaborately decorated playrooms.” body_stocking_serviceSinclair starts in Shinjuku's Kabukicho, ground zero of the Japanese sex industry, where the fun comes in almost any shape and size and fantasy. Amazingly, Sinclair—a foreign woman—managed after being away from Japan for ten years to return and talk her way into the clubs, camera in hand. In 2005, she spent a year deep in the demi-monde of the Japanese sex industry, “befriending the women, customers, and managers who work in Japan’s entertainment industry”—and ultimately was granted complete access. She was if not exactly in the trenches then right next to them, snapping away. The photos in “Pink Box” depict the working conditions for the women, the feeling of the brothels, the sheer variety; more than that, though, they portray as individuals the women who choose to work there. The book is divided into chapters based on the different choices available to the consumer: hostess clubs, host clubs, nude theaters, touch pubs and pink salons, soaplands, peeping rooms, fashion health, image clubs, happening bars and couples’ clubs, and a final chapter on “still more pink businesses.” This is a fascinating look at a world few are privy to.
In Pink Box, photographer Joan Sinclair takes us on a journey inside the secret world of fuzoku (commercial sex) in Japan, a world where kawaii (cute) collides with consumerism and sex.Unrivaled in their creativity and the sheer number of choices, the clubs featured in this book offer their clientele every fantasy imaginable. Subway groping, visits to the nurse's office, and comic book character encounters are just the beginning of the immense list of possibilities that are played out in colorful playrooms for adults where no detail is overlooked. Sinclair's photographs capture it all, while an introduction by sociologist James Farrer provides a brief history of commercial sex in Japan and places the images in the context of contemporary Japanese culture. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Basically this is a brief overview of the different types of businesses available in the red light districts. Lots of photography. Interesting though. ( )