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- drathan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+82http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos9/2006/12/you_cant_fondle.html
"You can't fondle a child riding a pony at a real carnival, but in the Carousel Room, anything goes. Pedophiles can live out their fantasies in this private chamber without the fear of arrest or being accosted. And if they can't coax a real child into some merry-go-round fun, they can just stare at the images of the gleeful toddlers on the wall while they masturbate."
WTF?!?!?! Am I still in wired.com??? - drathan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47"The walls of the Sexy X Room are covered with photographs of tied-up Japanese women from the '80s. Imagine the thrill of cuffing your date to the giant black X, and then dominating her while looking at photos of thousands of other women who have been dominated before her."
Sounds like the article's author did a lil more than cursory research on this one... - afx1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Nintendo used to own some Love Hotels.
- Recode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30add a 'j' infront of your name. NOW WHO'S THE PERV SUCKER?!?!
- kakwakas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31The low amount of child molestation might also have something to do with the fact that the age of consent in Japan is 13.
Yes, 13. - Goldenatom, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Just remember, while it might seem that the Japanese like gettin' their freak on a little too much, they have much lower numbers of sexual assault and lower rates of child molestation. Maybe its the ability to live out those fantasies...or maybe not, heh.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Because we all should adhere to your own personal sense of moral logic, eh?
- d3dm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20There's gotta be a joke about "invaders from Uranus" somewhere in all of this...
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16It's not a tech story. That's why it's not in the tech category.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15If you've seen several varieties of bukkake, are you really in any position to question their levels of kink?
- ketchupkatsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11totorototoro is right most of these places are used by normal couples who need sometime away from the kids. Japanese apartments are very small and the walls are very thin. The great thing about these, are they are just about everywhere, and you can enter anonymously. The entrances are blocked from the public and most times the clerk behind the desk can't see exactly who is requesting a room.
Japan has never had a large Christian population, so they tend not the have the hangups and problems that the West has in the view of sexual relations. - arthurbarnhouse, on 10/12/2007, -14/+25"hey have much lower numbers of sexual assault and lower rates of child molestation. Maybe its the ability to live out those fantasies...or maybe not, heh."
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/dussich.pdf
Or, maybe most forms of sexual assult, seuxal abuse, and rape aren't reported in Japan. - BiteTheHand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos9/2006/12/this_looks_like.html
"I imagine I'm the janitor and you're...the janitor's wife, who has to live with me in the utility room." - humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@totoroto Exactly this is the primary reason. Try having freaky sex in a two room house with paper walls and the other 9 members of your extended family all there. But any good thing gets a few imaginative folks to use or abuse as they wish. Wonder if they have a room for smearing-peanut-butter-all-over-and-let-monkeys-lick-it-off-while-eating-pringles-and-watching-cooking-shows-on-tv ? Oh, a little too much info there.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Digging the article doesn't necessarily mean you endorse Fantasy Love Hotels, just that you found the article interesting.
This is going to sound such a lie, but I was interested to find out more of Japanese culture... or something... - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And of course, normal japanese couples who want to escape from their tiny apartments and families for some regular sex also frequent love hotels. Sorry if thats not scandalous enough, but its just as true.
- MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9With an exception to a few of the themes, I love just about all the rooms. Needless to say the bondage and sadomasochistic ones, manga and the sex machine room would be my favorites. Very very hot and lascivious hotel and as long as I had a huge can of Lysol to spray down the rooms before use, I would put it on my list for travel in a heart beat. Excellent article, sultry descriptions of each room.. Digg +
- kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Article cracked me up.... Keep in mind this is a nation that has "used panties" for sale in vending machines
- solarix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Just get off your high horse izzy. The US for some reason discourages its citizens from sexual activity outside of the norm. I live in MD, and used to go to this club in Baltimore, it was a goth/industrial/fetish club. They were threatened on many occasions on being shut down because of lewd acts. It was an 18+ club, so everyone there was a consenting adult. The only lewd acts that ever went on were the goth kids complaining about how life was so horrible:-) But because some women walked up in there, no nudity, but in Dominatrix type gear, some people got in a huff about it and didn't want them to be able to congregate.
These rooms are no different than role playing in the bedroom, you just get to have the right scenery in the mix and some anonymity. - millert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9What, no room for Linux fetishists? Where's the giant Tux?
- rcomegys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Man, Japan is not the country you guys think it is. I can't believe how friggin one-sided this story is. Teacher and student, husband and hooker? Way to look down on the East from your high friggin Western horse.
Love Hotels were invented out of necessity. Japanese homes are small and have thin walls. If two people... be they husband and wife, daughter/son and boyfriend/girlfriend... want to have sex in private, they go to a love hotel. If you're out drinking with your loved one and want to have sex, but don't want to let the whole apartment building know about it, you go to a love hotel.
Of course they've been hijacked for certain types, and I would never try to convince you that Japanese don't have their kinks.... because they sure as hell do. But jeez, you guys are talking about Japan like it's some modern-day Sodom & Gomorrah. - TheWhyOfFry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10oh, good. nothing gets my girlfriend more turned on than the thought of being abducted by aliens.
anal probing, of course, is another matter...
(damn you, krontz!) - SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No, they are okay with two consenting adults acting out a fantasy of child molestation.
Even though they are mostly anonymous, it's not hard to figure out two people will be doing if you see them entering the building. As such, I doubt a child molester would want to be seen taking a child to one of these hotels. - richpav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The age of consent is 18 in Japan. I'd like to see where the people saying it's 13 are getting their information. No, scratch that. I don't want to see your bunghole.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%AB%E8%A1%8C%E6%9D%A1%E4%BE%8B - Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes!
(Hey wait, how did the submitter come by this news ...?) - KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7what the hell is a "sentance"?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What the hell does tech have to do with design? This is a "design" story. It deals with the design on hotel rooms. Seems good enough for me.
- richpav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you want to see what most love hotels look like, not just the ones cherry-picked by Wired because they're out of the ordinary, google for ラブホテル. Here are some examples I'm getting from following links from this site: http://www.love-hotels.jp/
http://www.hotelaroma.jp/room_top.html
http://www.chapel-hotel.co.jp/shop/touhoku_kantou/06_ikebukuro/room/index.html
http://www.hotelen.jp/rooms.html
http://www.hotel-london.jp/indexpc.html
And BTW, Japan DOES NOT have used panty vending machines, dammit. Just because everyone says they exist doesn't make it true. Hearing people talk about them really annoys the ***** out of me.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/The_FINAL_word_on_used_panty_vending_machines_in_Japan - brentris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Don't mind me folks, just need to get the ol' wet-dry vac."
- blueZhift, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Call me crazy, but I think there just might be a market for this in the US. Why? Because even with Puritanical mores, Americans are crazy about sex and play too, but just aren't allowed to talk about it. Everyone knows what they are supposed to say, and what things they are supposed to say "ewwww" about. But deep down, I'll bet most couples wish every town had a few love hotels where you could go cut loose and enjoy some fantasies without feeling guilty about it. And even though living space in America would seem to lessen the need for love hotels from that point of few, who wants to have sex in the same ol' bedroom all the time? And if you're a parent with kids at home, it's even worse. So bring on the love hotels!
- amoeba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And if you're stuck in town late at night, love hotels are much cheaper than other rooms and sure beat a capsule hotel! only thing is you have to turn up after 10, no booking. But yeh, gotta love Japan and the practicalities of the culture. Love Hotels rock! hehe
- norcalscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What is shown on the monitor in the waiting room if the manager forgets to turn the screen to black while the room is "in service?"
And imagine being the cleaning-lady for these hotels. Shudder.... - m0nk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Weird....would I be sick if I dugg this?
- Alaerus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I know where I'm going for vacation next year :-)
- sugarkang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4japan rules.
- arthurbarnhouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The word "bukkake" IS Japanese. It was big in Japan (no pun intended) because back in the day they couldn't show actual sexual intercourse without blurring it, but they could show a guy ejaculating on a girl (the specifics of why always eluded me).
- NYC10004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"but I figured digg would steer away from this type of stuff. "
Why? And for what reason? - Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4~1950s.
Seriously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo (It's on the fourth line down) - salinemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You're just saying that because you made another account so you could digg this twice.
- NYC10004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nintendo use to run alot of these hotels.
- johnham, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oh, Japan. You so cray-zay.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no its ok, probably just means that the fbi might be looking out for ur myspace acct.
- Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ok. Here are the facts:
According to national (federal) law, the age of consent is 13. However this law doesn't have any real value, as every individual prefecture (state) has its own law which is usually 17 or 18. So basically the age of consent should be considered to be 18 in most cases. And you will be prosecuted. One of the guys I used to know at my local golf club is currently doing time for having sex with a 15 year old.
From the original article:
>But 2006 spawned a new type of love hotel. Decorated with theme park interiors
>and equipped with game consoles, karaoke boxes and sex machines -- these
>establishments provide kinky fun for all types, from fetishists and sadomasochists to
>the ordinary couple seeking sexual adventure.
Sorry, but that's just total ***** from someone who's never been here. Love hotels have had games consoles, karaoke boxes, machines etc. for years.
(I live in Japan) - malloc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is one in Tahoe City, CA
- 0zzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mom, I'm moving to Japan again.... ya, I got a hotel in mind.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2He linked to the wrong room.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos9/2006/12/everyone_knows_.html - betterth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's one of those phrases that you can use in real life, verbally, but when written down, makes you look like a r-tard.
- CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You know, to each his or her own, but their is a tentacle rape joke in their somewhere.
- donotdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow, at this rate, the Overfiend would be out of a job....
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That would just make me tingle all over....
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