Kevin Brooks wrote:
"Cindy" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:



If you think the US was responsible for introducing an enlightened

attitude

towards sex to the Japanese, you are sadly mistaken and need to review

your

Japanese social history.

I read John Dower's "Embracing Defeat". Hey, you got to be proud of
your country for this service. Sex gave the Japanese fantasy,
daydreaming, and probably a lot of babies after the defeat. Pan pan
girls were able to make money off the American GIs. Strip shows were
first introduced in Asakusa and were the major success. Western women
were considered to be a sex symbol. Sex was far better than committing
suicide, after all. You didn't know that, did you?


I know that the Japanese have a long history of a rather liberal attitude
towards sex, extending back a couple of centuries before they ever met an
American, much less were conquered by us. You might care to examine some of
their artwork.

Brooks



Speaking of Japanese erotic artwork. Anyone know the value of the following?

Japanese "pillow" scroll, watercolor on rice paper attached to a silk
scroll with an ivory (I think) rod. Very explicit artwork. BIL brought
it back as spoils of war from the Pacific in 1945. He has gone to join
his fallen comrades and I thought I could sell it for some extra money
for my sister but have no idea what to look for on eBay to establish a
baseline price.

Definitely off-topic but he was a Navy corpsman with the Marines from
1941-1945.

George