Japanese men lap up new comfort pillow

[n2doc]

Japanese men without a shoulder to cry on this Christmas are being offered a woman's lap - made out of foam - to rest on instead.


The "lap pillow", shaped like the bottom half of a kneeling woman, is selling for about 9,429 yen ($90), the French news agency AFP reported.

"Single men find this soothing," said Mitsuo Takahashi of the manufacturer Trane KK.

He told AFP that the Hizamakura, or lap pillow, fulfilled a primal need.

"From the time people were kids, people have laid their heads on their mothers' laps to get their ears cleaned," he said. "This is made to be quite close to the real thing."

more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4092345.stm

[LearnedHand]

1. Ewww. Gross. Just gross.

I love the Japanese culture, but sometimes, Japanese men are ... hard to understand.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. I agree and add : Ick. Just ick. n/t

[phasma ex machina]

9. A little something for the women from a few years back.

[Brickbat]

2. IIRC, this has been around for awhile. I remember a discussion about it on a feminist BB maybe

three years ago.

ETA: Also, this quote cracks my shit up, although it might be the wine talking:

"From the time people were kids, people have laid their heads on their mothers' laps to get their ears cleaned," he said. "This is made to be quite close to the real thing."

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Japanese ladies long for date with brutal men of history

Japanese ladies long for date with brutal men of history



Masamune Date is not an obvious heart-throb for today’s young Japanese women. He has an aristocratic lineage and love of the arts — but he is also a one-eyed ruthless killer. He lost an eye to smallpox and in his relentless pursuit of power is said to have slaughtered his own brother, as well as Christian missionaries, Korean peasants and countless of his compatriots.

The biggest turn-off might have been that Lord Date has been dead for 373 years, having flourished during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.

In fact, he enjoys a celebrity in today’s Japan that would be the envy of many actors or rock stars. Books, television dramas, films, animations, comics and video games examine his life — and he is only one of several celebrity medieval samurai in the limelight. Japan is in the throes of a feudal warlord boom whose heroes are not smooth-cheeked young men but scarred, disease-riddled, brutal warriors whose kind died out centuries ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6954029.ece

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. This just reminds me of T.S.Eliot

... Uncorseted, her friendly bust
gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

Though, technically, I think it might be hydraulic bliss, instead of pneumatic. But, I ain't no poet.

:hi:

[Lucian]

6. That's creepy as hell.

[valerief]

7. So this is the earwax pillow? nt

[iris27]

8. Good Christ, that belongs in Shakesville's "Today in Disembodied Things" series.

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/09/today-in-disembodied-things.html

That is just twenty-seven different kinds of wrong.

[Skittles]

10. that is one skinny fucking pillow

[BlueJazz]

11. But Wait! There's More!

[rcrush]

13. Oh shit I know what I want for Christmas!

[rcrush]

12. Can I get some boob shaped pillows please?

[pokerfan]

16. Yes

[marzipanni]

17. You can get a boob-tipped scarf (one tit w/tat!)

[begin_within]

14. Pretty soon, live people will no longer be necessary.

[Lex]

15. For the pathetic man

in your life.

[es350_ibm]

18. Just stupid

[Odin2005]

19. WTF is with Japanese guys and creepy misogyny?

:wtf: