My visit to the Atami Sex Museum – Atami, Japan
January 5, 2009 – 11:21 pmI’m currently holidaying in Japan and today I finished my brief stop over in Atami with a visit to the Atami Hihokan – or as it’s better known – the Atami Adult or Sex Museum. An excellent place to spend an hour!
Not only does it offer three levels of exhibits on mainly Japanese sexuality, its position on top of Atami’s cliffs (accessible by cable car) makes for some very nice views of the ocean.
Some of the museum’s highlights:
- A series of window boxes displaying toy-like figurines involved in a number of fetishes, many of which are firmly rooted in Japan like Hentai and bondage.
- Traditional Japanese drawings of sex. The male’s organ is always excessively large.
- A crank connected to a wind machine that when spun blows the skirt of a Marilyn Monroe mannequin up.
- A replica of a whale’s penis. About as tall as me I’d say.
A lot of what was on show was silly (a penis you can ride for 100Yen), but it’s also what made the visit a fun experience. Those silly exhibits and the fact many of the visitors were senior couples says something about the Japan’s attitude towards sex.
For the next 7 days I’m in Tokyo. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to write more soon.
6 Responses to “My visit to the Atami Sex Museum – Atami, Japan”
There are counteless reports today of a major clampdown on pornography and “vulgar” content in China with Google and other search engines (such as Baidu) being warned.
Here’s one link with links to other articles.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4255
.. and another from Hong Kong which I believe has an exemption.
http://www.brandrepublic.asia/Media/Digitalarticle/2009_01/China-releases-fresh-list-of-vulgar-sites/33906
China releases fresh list of ‘vulgar’ sites
by Anita Davis 6-Jan-09, 15:36
BEIJING – A series of Chinese government bureaus has issued a list of 19 websites it believes provide ‘vulgar’ content to Chinese netizens, including search powerhouses Baidu and Google.
Seven departments, led by the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre, part of the Internet Society of China, with the Ministry of Information Technology and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), issued their list in an effort to control more aggressively websites that “pervert social morals and harm the physical and mental health of children,” Chinese sources report.
Other Chinese sites including Netease, Sina, Sohu and Tencent’s QQ have also landed on the authorities’ list, mainly for linking internet users to sites, photo albums, columns and images.
According to Chinese reports, the list was compiled following complaints from the public. The websites that had not removed the links to prohibited material were put on the list.
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Have a good time in Japan.
By Bob Bain on Jan 6, 2009
Addendum: The list of 19 sites considered to contain links to “vulgar” material can be found here..
http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/thetechdynasty/post.htm?id=63008155&scid=rvhm_ms
A full list of sites sent notice to clean up their act:
Google.cn
Baidu
Sina
Sohu
Tengxun
Netease
Chinaren
Zhongsou
Mop
Open V
Vodone
Tianya
Youjiu
Yesky
Hefei Hotline
Tiexue
131.com
Sogua
Kuaiche
Bob
By Bob Bain on Jan 6, 2009
From the brandrepublic.asia article:
“…in an effort to control more aggressively websites that ‘pervert social morals and harm the physical and mental health of children’…”
Sounds familiar somehow. Methinks a man by the name of Conroy hath said similar things of late, in his effort to impose a Chinese style filtering system on Australia’s internet.
Like minds will sing the same tune.
By Daniel on Jan 6, 2009
Daniel suggests “Like minds will sing the same tune”
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE5040F120090107
“Chinese net companies apologize for lewd content”
Baidu…
“We feel deeply guilty,” Baidu, China’s number one search engine, said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday.
“We apologize to Internet users for any negative effects given to society.”
SINA..
“As to our problems and any harm they could possibly have caused Internet users, SINA feels deeply sad and concerned,” the online media group said.
Google..
Google’s China office stopped short of offering an apology on its website, but promised to “work hard” with Internet users and society to build a healthy Internet culture.
“After we received notice from relevant government departments … (we) cleaned up links to vulgar content that could have adverse effects on Internet users,” it said
http://googlechinablog.com/2009/01/blog-post_5823.html
If Google is to adopt the same approach in Australia it will cleaning up links to vulgar content for Australian users at the behest of Senstor Conroy – and of course apologising indirectly for the ill effects such content may have on Internet users in this country..
By Bob Bain on Jan 7, 2009
WTF lol
By Tom on Jan 10, 2009
Leave it to the Japanese to make a replica of a whales penis for the sake of sexual museum art. This place looks amazing next time I’m in Japan this will def be on my list of crazy things to visit.
By Almost Japanese on Aug 5, 2009