Buying Panties in Japan
The following is an article written special for Not Work Safe by a friend of ours that we’ll refer to as “Captain America” Capt. A lived in Japan for a few years and became “intimately” associated with the sexual culture of Japan.
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Panty Sale
It’s against the law for me to buy underwear now. Women’s underwear,
anyway. Thanks to the Tokyo Metropolitan government it is now illegal to
buy used underwear from girls under the age of 16. Which is too bad for the
ladies in Japan looking to make some scratch, a soiled pair can cost over
$75.
We saw that the end was near, though, it was pretty clear. The first sign
was that the middle-man was getting cut out. With the help of the
‘phone-clubs’ (which is a cell-phone accessed chat-room or bulletin-board)
girls would sell their drawers directly.
Once arranging a meeting with the customer, girls would hand the goods over
directly. A lot of the time the girls would charge more if they pulled them
off in front of the customer. Additional cash would get the customer a
small show.
It’s not just hitting high-school girls either. The law effectively covers
ANY woman from selling her drawers. That means that college hotties can’t
sell their drawers.
And it’s not just the Japanese girls who get in on the action. ‘Foreign’
women (in this case, white American girls) can sell their goods too, and for
more than $75. The Japanese men who prefer the goods of American girls say
that the American women leave a scent that is stronger, and more like
cheese. The Japanese girls, the men complain, leave a weak smell, similar
to cuttlefish.
The US has some of those photo-sticker booths, you’ve probably seen one at
the mall. They’re EVERYWHERE in Japan. Most stores and shopping malls have
them, as does every video arcade. In high-traffic areas any guy seen
walking towards a booth is suspect of paying for panties….and often
guilty.
But it’s not just in Japan. A politician in the United Kingdom got busted
for selling his wife’s used panties on the net. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/tory_panties_down/]
That’s right, starting a couple years ago, the would-be politico was making
change with help from his willing wife - she even posed for pictures on the
website. At least he was making his money honestly.
eBay doesn’t allow people to sell “soiled items". They refer to “used
clothing” and other indirect names for soiled panties. They give excuses
for reasons of ‘health’, and ’sanitation’ but we know what they’re really
talking about.