INTERESTING JAPANESE MAGAZINE #9:

SAKURAGUMI

In a new twist to the 'porn or not?' phenomenon, this magazine is half-COSMOPOLITAIN, half-HUSTLER.

They have interviews with successful hostesses, and layouts with whores, as if they are the latest fashion models!!!

Also it's got all the same information that you'd find in a 'men's magazine' but with a totally different slant to it: While guys might pay for pictures of prostitutes naked, the sakuragumi reader also pays for pictures of prostitues, to see what the fashionable hoes are wearing these days!!!

Also, just like a 'men's magazine,' SAKURAGUMI also has maps to all the hostess bars, so the aspiring hoe can shop around before she chooses a place to work. And, like the men's magazines, it's 90% ads for cathouses. But unlike the ads read by men, the SAKURAGUMI ads don't mention sucking penii or even mention guys at all! They talk about what talented and hardworking women the readers are. . . . . the ads are full of pictures of cute puppies, angels, lavish Cartier watches, and liberated, smart women commuting to work.

 

(this puppy wants YOU to jerk off 10 guys a day!)

In fact, there is no nudity or even sexy underwear in the magazine--- it's far less risque than the AVERAGE Japanese woman's fashion magazine! It's almost as if the hostess bars had nothing to do with sex or men at all. . . It's kind of like the transformation that U.S.A presidential candidates go through when they tour the South or something, and suddenly they're all puffing on corncob pipes and wearing Stetson hats. Or something.

Also, it rates the different kinds of guys that come to hostess bars, and even has a quiz section. . . .Remember those 'vocational quizzes' that you'd take in junior high school, to see if you should become a lawyer or a fry cook? Well, sakuragumi has a handy step by step guide for determining which kind of sex work the reader is cut out for!!

 

Anyway, someone should do their PhD. on this. Not me, though. I can't even conjugate verbs yet.