Comments on: Eating sushi off a naked girl: yay or yuck?

By: NP

NP — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:13:54 +0000

Normally I like to lick the plate afterwards. Do you think they would mind?

By: Benjamin Boas

Benjamin Boas — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:09:39 +0000

Sarah:

You should visit Doshisha in November.

From J-Wikipedia:
同志社女体盛り・男体盛り事件 [編集]

1997年、同志社大学の学園祭において、学生による模擬店で「松（3000円）」「竹（2000円）」「梅（1500円）」の3コースを設定。松は水着姿、竹は体操着姿の女子学生が、梅は上半身裸の男子学生がそれぞれ横になり、食品包装用ラップフィルムを巻いた腹の上にプリンやポテトチップなどを盛って客に提供したという。「社会常識を逸脱している」との大学側などの指導で最終日に営業を中止。

By: Sarah Noorbakhsh

Sarah Noorbakhsh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:15:06 +0000

With all the talk of herbivorous men and carnivorous women out there, I’m surprised we don’t hear more about the opposite, 男体盛り.

By: Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:57:47 +0000

It does sound like a lascivious story about “decadent crazy Asians” but it has been something done in the past, as the Inagawakai (Japan’s third largest organized crime group) arrests a few years ago illustrates. It’s just not something that’s done on a regular basis. However, I don’t think it’s as popular in Japan as it now seems to be in the West. It’s an odd practice that did began in Japan. Please tell your wife, yes-there are some places in Japan where this is done but it’s not a standard practice.

By: RMilner

RMilner — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:02:48 +0000

I have read about this several times over 10-15 years however always the report was of a foreign restaurant which offered it.

My wife, who is Japanese, had not heard of this and did not believe it existed until I showed her the news item in the paper.

It isn’t a standard part of the Japanese sex industry like “esute” though it may have been done privately — how would we ever know.

It sounds like one of those lascivious stories that westerners have always enjoyed about the ‘orient’ since it started at Egypt.

By: Bruce N. Stein

Bruce N. Stein — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:06:21 +0000

Ah, I never knew the name of this practice before. My poor secluded American self assumed it was a larger practice than it is, but an honest inquiry into it does make it seem reasonable that it would be so outrageously expensive that only a very select few “in-the-know” places and people actually practiced the activity.

That being said, it’s on my “List of Things to Do Before I Die”.

I remember hearing a story on NPR about someone in the US starting such a restaurant. I dunno if this is the same place I heard on the report, but here’s an article from 2008.

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/dining/15590152.html

Apparently I need to take my Minneapolis friend up on his offer to come visit.