{"id":18785,"date":"2023-01-17T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:35:29","slug":"bdsm-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/bdsm-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"BDSM in Japan: What the History Channel Won\u2019t Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18785\" class=\"elementor elementor-18785\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55e5f21 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"55e5f21\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a515511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a515511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">BDSM in Japan: What the History Channel Won\u2019t Tell You<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e17c8b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e17c8b1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ac0d13\" data-id=\"3ac0d13\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b31437 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b31437\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Midori \u00a9 2022<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24c2716 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"24c2716\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22ce00f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"22ce00f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Japan-kink-history-collage.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-18887\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Japan-kink-history-collage.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Japan-kink-history-collage-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Japan-kink-history-collage-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Japan-kink-history-collage-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a3817a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7a3817a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80f1853 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"80f1853\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you planning on visiting Japan to take in the culture and enjoy kink life? You totally should!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re coming from \u201cthe West,\u201d Japan offers a mind-boggling array of unique experiences and pleasures: food, history, sights, art, architecture, performing arts, transportation, language system, and certainly entertainment and pleasure life. You\u2019ll find plenty of info for these in the usual G-rated resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to the kinky hot spots, you won\u2019t find any information in your typical Lonely Planet or Fodor&#8217;s Travel Guide. After my most recent trip to Japan, I shared a few of my favorite places plus some essential tips on Japanese kink bar etiquette. You can find that in my <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/midori-bdsm-travel-guide-kinky-japan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BDSM Travel Guide to Japan here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accessing and understanding kink life in Japan, however, is an entirely different matter. <\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2272bd0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2272bd0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7d2f56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b7d2f56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1248\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Japan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-18849\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Japan.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Japan-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Japan-1024x913.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Japan-768x685.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05266f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"05266f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Kabukicho red gate and colorful neon street signs at night, Shinjuku, Tokyo. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3330cd1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3330cd1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8a6af2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8a6af2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>Kink Life In Japan: It\u2019s Not What You Think<\/b><\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BDSM realities are different in ways you won\u2019t find explained in common travel and culture sources. There\u2019s much to discuss on this, more than I have space here, so please consider this as a whetting of your global kink curiosity. I\u2019ll cover more in future articles, and I\u2019m happy to discuss these during my <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/planetmidori\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">biweekly Office Hours on Patreon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People ask me, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where do I find the kink community in Japan?\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m from Japan, and I go back often to hang out in kinky places, teach, explore, and make new pervy friends. You\u2019d think this would be an easy question for me to answer. The inquiring traveler thinks so too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except it\u2019s not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They\u2019re met with my long sigh, a contemplative pause, and a pained expression. \u201cDo you want the short answer or the long cultural analysis and contextualizing?\u201d I ask. They look at me with hope, excitement, and bafflement. I know that I\u2019m about to disappoint them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please, don\u2019t shoot the messenger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2><b>The Short Answer\u00a0<\/b><\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUnless you\u2019re looking for the ex-pat pervs, the \u2018BDSM Community\u2019 as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have likely experienced and expect, does not exist among Japanese folks. Do you have heaps of money for the commercial venues? Do you speak, read &amp; write Japanese like a local? Unless you do, you probably won\u2019t get into kink spaces. And don\u2019t push the matter like some latter-day Commodore Perry.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2><b>The Long Answer(s)\u00a0<\/b><\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The English-speaking resident foreigners have their own self-organized pockets of social circles, much like kinksters in any small town in the USA. The people are lovely. As to how available or accessible they are to tourists coming through town, that\u2019s entirely up to them. If you find them on various kinky networks, you can ask if you\u2019d be welcome. But don\u2019t expect automatic access. Be nice. Take a \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like a champ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why can\u2019t you find Japanese locals on kink social sites like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fetlife.com\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FetLife<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Because they speak, read, and write in Japanese.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who ask this refer to sites centered on English or other Latin-script languages. The Japanese language uses kanji, hiragana, and katakana, not Latin or Roman letters. Why communicate with one\u2019s own people in someone else\u2019s language?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the obvious difference in language, kink cultural structure and perv social life in contemporary Japan are extremely different from that of the Western global north. It\u2019s centered on the framework of the commercial entertainment district and revolves around spaces created by for-profit business entities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan\u2019s pervy social systems are not formed in what might be called \u201cThe North American Model.\u201d (Bear with me on this name. I\u2019m still working on a more apt moniker in my ongoing social history research.) The North American Model is more of a horizontally self-organized gathering of private individuals who hold kink as part of their humanistic self-expression. Munches are one good example.<\/span><\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Japanese for-profit structures cater to kink tastes through businesses that include kink-themed hostess bars, swingers bars, concept or theme bars, variety shows, stage acts, and more directly in-person service providers. Consider these as bastard descendants of the government-sanctioned pleasure quarter of the Edo era (1603 \u2013 1867 CE).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81b62f3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"81b62f3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d888b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1d888b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tokyo-street-scene-host-bar-billboard.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-18816\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tokyo-street-scene-host-bar-billboard.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tokyo-street-scene-host-bar-billboard-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tokyo-street-scene-host-bar-billboard-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b913db1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b913db1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokyo street scene host bar billboard, by Midori 2022<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57683ef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"57683ef\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f16739 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f16739\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><b>To understand the kink scenes in Japan today, we need to time-warp back to the early 17th century and look at the roots of its sex culture.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, this is where we get into some deep cultural nerding! In the early 1600s, the Tokugawa government approved, licensed, regulated, and taxed walled-in areas of luxury entertainment venues and brothels in Edo (now Tokyo), Osaka, and Kyoto. Edo had a massive population boom as it became the new seat of power and administration. There were likely twice as many men than women. Entertainment, especially the erotic variety, was in high demand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09af5f8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"09af5f8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abebc74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"abebc74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"936\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hishikawa-Moronobu-scene-in-the-Yoshiwara-1680.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-18943\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hishikawa-Moronobu-scene-in-the-Yoshiwara-1680.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hishikawa-Moronobu-scene-in-the-Yoshiwara-1680-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hishikawa-Moronobu-scene-in-the-Yoshiwara-1680-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hishikawa-Moronobu-scene-in-the-Yoshiwara-1680-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-defc89b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"defc89b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hishikawa Moronobu scene in the Yoshiwara 1680<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3d89fe e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f3d89fe\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b44df48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b44df48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around the time that the Mayflower Pilgrims were setting the course for America\u2019s sex-negative prudish future, Japan already had a well-organized red-light district where partaking of the floating world signaled social and economic virility for the big spenders. For the customers, the pleasure quarters provided a rare escape from the strict limitations of one\u2019s birth caste. If you had the money, the merchants provided a slice of decadent heaven. For the women working there \u2014 most of whom were sold to the brothels as young girls to pay their father\u2019s debt or keep the family fed through famine and taxation by the regional lords \u2014 it was hell on earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pleasure quarters of Edo became a firmly entrenched system in this complex, vertically organized, group-oriented society. For those who could afford a slice of the fantasy island, it was a relief and a compartmentalized refuge from the unrelenting pressures and restrictions that kept the caste-based social order humming along. Of course, the system served the governing authorities very well through taxation. The Tokugawa regime was also concerned that a powerful merchant class could destabilize their authority.\u00a0 What\u2019s one of the solutions to that? Encourage the glamor and luxury of the pleasure quarters as bread and circuses to keep the pesky bourgeoises busy. It also curbed crime and contained social disorder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shogunate government licensed three pleasure quarters. Shimagara in Kyoto, Shinmachi in Osaka, and lastly Yoshiwara of Edo(Tokyo); the most famed and notorious of the three sister districts. The Yoshiwara partied hard for three centuries, making its name synonymous with all the glitz of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floating World.<\/span><\/i><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoshiwara and the Floating World (ukiyo \u6d6e\u4e16) begat fashion and trends followed fiercely by the status-conscious middle class and fashionistas of the time. The luxury entertainment crafts of Yoshiwara profoundly influenced what would eventually symbolize refined Edo and Japanese culture: cuisine, music, theater, textile, comedy, and popular media such as the ukiyo-e (\u6d6e\u4e16\u7d75). The red-light district became the cradle of national cultural art. Think of the economies and businesses of Las Vegas, the West End, and Broadway birthing the pinnacle of the Western cultural arts. If you think that\u2019s weird, think about what Shakespeare was doing and for whom. The bawdy becomes the beauty. It\u2019s not a stretch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c070fd9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c070fd9\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03ed76f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"03ed76f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1074\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/82_Yoshiwara_Girls-OPT.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-18946\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/82_Yoshiwara_Girls-OPT.jpg 1450w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/82_Yoshiwara_Girls-OPT-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/82_Yoshiwara_Girls-OPT-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/82_Yoshiwara_Girls-OPT-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4c6f2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b4c6f2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prostitutes behind a harimise show window (\u5f35\u898b\u4e16) in the Yukaku (\u904a\u90ed, red light district) of Yoshiwara in Tokyo. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possibly by Kusakabe Kimbei (\u65e5\u4e0b\u90e8 \u91d1\u5e63) (1841 &#8211; 1934), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:82_Yoshiwara_Girls.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c86b00 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8c86b00\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7876afa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7876afa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The propaganda leaned hard on patriotism, nationalism, racial purity, and xenophobia. Of course, they had plenty of practice with bureaucratically organized sex slavery with \u201ccomfort women\u201d in Korea. Domestically, they cloaked governmental pimping under the banner of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriotism<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rather than slavery to brutalize the enemy. In 1958, in a grand act of hypocrisy, the Japanese government outlawed prostitution, even that which they had created themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The red-light district and adult entertainment did not disappear \u2014 not one bit. By now, the cultural system of adult entertainment of all types was firmly entrenched into the fabric and system of social order. It was a place where the ordinary worker bees, if they had enough Yen from their daily grind, could be a lord of the floating world, even if for only one night or one hour. This compartmentalization was a social and psychological necessity for individuals to carry on as functioning members of the hive. It was also a place where marginalized people, those not fitting into the mainstream, and folks without access to economic opportunities and privileges, could make a living and find a niche. It still is all of these things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the historical and official Yoshiwara district is gone, the red light and pleasure districts are bigger business than any Shogun, Emperor, or bureaucrat could have ever imagined. It was, and still is, highly competitive as more companies compete for customers in this densely-packed city with a high cost of living. Repeat business and patron loyalty was the key to survival. The mercantile minds were brilliant at sniffing out niche interests to create super-specialized services and wedge them into tiny spaces. The sheer variety of venue themes is mind-boggling: Formal maids, anime maids, butlers, mistresses, matrons, girls in animal ears and glasses, office workers and secretaries, medical, and female-to-male cross-dressed pirate princes, etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aeb3932 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"aeb3932\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86c7211 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"86c7211\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/midori-bdsm-travel-guide-kinky-japan\">Midori\u2019s Travel Guide: Kinky Japan<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a51efb2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a51efb2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fd4f449\" data-id=\"fd4f449\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a11a49 e-transform elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3a11a49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:1.4,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;motion_fx_translateY_affectedRange&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:0,&quot;end&quot;:100}},&quot;motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;],&quot;_transform_rotateZ_effect&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;_transform_rotateZ_effect_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;deg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;_transform_rotateZ_effect_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;deg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/valentines-neon-wand-giveaway\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/hand-ppotbz06qzdm2tqrlhl1fol5q8euibmuptgzyuc7ps.png\" title=\"hand\" alt=\"hand\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-655cc1e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"655cc1e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-044a21f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"044a21f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><b>So what does this history have to do with kink social life today? Everything, actually.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, these venues serve as de facto gathering spaces for people, whether just curious or deeply devoted to the themes. BDSM and shibari are just one of many exotic themes and proxy living rooms where people can feel a sense of belonging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access to BDSM and socializing in a kink milieu is firmly part of this recreational service sector. <\/span><b>BDSM, shibari, sex work, and the entertainment industry are intricately tied together. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kink is experienced as recreation, something titillating to consume for amusement and find camaraderie within a socially-permitted business container.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In these spaces, people might learn about basic BDSM skills and activities, feel comfortable asking questions, and perhaps relax enough to reveal something of themselves. At the same time, because it\u2019s a commercial venue, there\u2019s a literal and metaphorical escape route. They can leave and keep the kink from coming home into their private lives. There is the plausible deniability to others and oneself that it was, after all, just a theme bar and a bit of a naughty night out.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not confuse these kink-themed bars with western-style play parties. These are hostess bars with kinky d\u00e9cor where play, usually light play or performances, might happen. No sex. Generally no nudity. People are drinking, sometimes heavily. In swingers\u2019 bars with kink-themed playrooms, there might be some kink and sex, and a full bar. If you aren\u2019t comfortable in S&amp;M environments with alcohol, these are not good places for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guests often watch or talk about kink with the staff, who know how to keep the conversation and drinks flowing. The commercial venues become places where people see some kink and learn a bit through informal shares. On many occasions, I have watched customers ask what hot wax, whips, canes, or rope feels like. The lingerie-clad hostess drips a few drops on the customer\u2019s arm, gives them a few swats, puts a collar on them, then pours another round of expensive whiskey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contrary to what some might imagine or insist upon about Japan, BDSM and shibari isn&#8217;t practiced by every adult, considered a sacred or meditative art, or taught in rigorously demanding martial arts style schools. Are there some people who do that? Sure. Are there some places where you can enjoy a disciplined learning program? Sure. But the insinuation that shibari is commonly practiced and accepted as a meditative and spiritual tradition in Japan is an unfortunate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumboutique.com\/journal\/article\/the-history-myths-of-japanese-bondage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">steaming pile of Orientalist fiction created by Westerners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How things work behind the scenes in BDSM venues is not shared with curious foreign tourists or those coming to learn from the in-house rope bondage specialists. It\u2019s a business of fantasy making. Don\u2019t explain the magic. Keeping the illusion alive keeps the business alive. As someone who grew up in Tokyo and is seen as part of the greater pleasure industry (there\u2019s no equivalent of my work in Japan, so they think of me as a perv culture writer) I\u2019m privileged to have woman-to-woman frank conversations with the workers. These have been insightful, giving me multifaceted perspectives into the kinkier corners of the Floating World.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workers in these venues usually learn on the job. In reality, many workers have limited or no personal experience in kink. Often it is not even their personal interests. It\u2019s a job.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customers learn from entertainers, who themselves may have little actual play experience. Staff-to-staff training of BDSM skills as part of their hostess repertoire is probably the same as for other types of workers back in the floating worlds of Edo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These staff are exceptional at the central purpose of their service: to help you feel good, seen, and appreciated as a person. They work hard on their craft of personal space-making and lavishing attention on the customer. They are not there as the patron\u2019s personal domina or private submissive partner. These are mutually agreed-upon and highly-choreographed pseudo-relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you go to these spaces, enjoy and appreciate their host and hostess skills. Try your Japanese, even if just a faltering few phrases. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could ask them to teach you a kink word or two \u2014 that\u2019s always good for a chuckle. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While you\u2019re there, strike up friendly conversations with other customers. 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Midori<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-115a0f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"115a0f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your Fairy God-Auntie of Kink. Exploding Expectations. Challenging Conventions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trailblazing educator, sexologist, artist, and irritant to banality, Midori founded Rope Dojo and ForteFemme: Women&#8217;s Dominance Intensive. She penned the first English instruction book on Shibari, &#8220;Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage&#8221; in 2001, paving the way for the popularity of rope. Dan Savage calls her the &#8220;Super Nova of Kink,&#8221; while others affectionately call her Auntie Midori for her cool, tell-it-like-it-is, funny, reality-based teaching. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2028\u2028<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is also the author of &#8220;Wild Side Sex,&#8221; &#8220;Master Han&#8217;s Daughter,&#8221; and &#8220;Silk Threads.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education, Coaching, Private Learning &amp; Art:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/planetmidori.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/planetmidori.com<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special membership perks! Learn, laugh, and enjoy her special online classes, events, and art at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/PlanetMidori\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.patreon.com\/PlanetMidori<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 where she is working on her next shibari book!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fhp-inc.com\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/fhp-inc.com\/contact\/<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workshops, articles, art, events &#8211; currently all on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/planetmidori\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.patreon.com\/planetmidori<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where she is working on her next shibari <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">book<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FetLife: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fetlife.com\/users\/62156?sp=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midori<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IG: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/planetmidori\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@PlanetMidori<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlanetMidori\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@PlanetMidori<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FaceBook: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MidoriReallyMidori\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@MidoriReallyMidori<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d3921ca elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d3921ca\" 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