Tokyo puts the wraps on Porno Mags

[Big Booger]

From Thursday, all magazines and books designated by the Tokyo metropolitan government as containing adult material were required to be displayed separately in stores. The publications also were wrapped in plastic to prevent young people from browsing through them.

The regulation is part of the government's revised ordinance regarding the instillation of morals in children that began to be enforced this month. Publishing companies have also been voluntarily sealing publications featuring nude pictures.

Starting this month, the government will warn stores that do not follow the regulations and impose a fine of up to 300,000 yen if a store continues to defy the ordinance.

Porn Mag Wrappers Article

[Taro Toporific]

From Thursday, all magazines and books designated by the Tokyo metropolitan government as containing adult material were required to be displayed separately in stores. The publications also were wrapped in plastic to prevent young people from browsing through them...

WOT 'bout keitai and web porn?

Are they gonna wrap my new computer too?

Oh wait. Nevermind, Japan is a distant No. 5 in total web porn.

Germany ranked number one in porn30 June 2004 / Expatica Communications
BERLIN - Germany has the highest number of porn websites, according to a survey of 100 countries ranked according to the number of sex sites.
In total, Secure Computing counted 46 million pornographic sites in the nations studied (excluding the US) with Germany coming in at the number one spot with more than 10 million.
Next was Britain with 8.5 million with Australia holding the number three position in the survey's top ten with 5.7 million sites.
Surprisingly, the tiny Pacific island of Nuie had almost three million sites giving it the somewhat dubious distinction of being four on the list.
Japan [No. 5] followed with 2.7 million. The Netherlands had 1.9 million, Russia 1.08 million, Poland 1.05 million, Spain 852,800 and Nuie's Pacific neighbour Tonga had 848,800.
In releasing the study, Secure Computing said that it found that the 46,000,000 pages of pornography contained in the SmartFilter database were overwhelmingly concentrated in two regions, Europe and the Pacific.

[AssKissinger]

Wow. Germany only has about 80 million people. Considering that most of that stuff is probably hetero male targeted and some folks aren't online, the average Adolf only has to share his porn pussy with about two other blokes. That's a respectable statistic.

[dingosatemybaby]

Wow. Germany only has about 80 million people. Considering that most of that stuff is probably hetero male targeted and some folks aren't online, the average Adolf only has to share his porn pussy with about two other blokes. That's a respectable statistic.

That IS a respectable statistic. Kinda like the two Duke brothers each getting one of Daisy Duke's butt cheeks.

[Andocrates]

About frickin time.

[Taro Toporific]

About frickin time.

Do you mean it's bout frickin time for " two Duke brothers each getting one of Daisy Duke's butt cheeks"?


If salarymen read these porn mags on the train, it doesn't seen to make any difference except the Combi-store won't have as many damaged magazines,

[GomiGirl]

I have noticed that lately some combinis are using string around the more expensive mags so that people are not just standing and reading and will actually make purchases of the material.

*gasp*

I have never understood when I stumble into a combini at 4 in the morning and there is always somebody standing and reading something there.. don't you people have homes to go to?????

[Captain Japan]

From Thursday, all magazines and books designated by the Tokyo metropolitan government as containing adult material were required to be displayed separately in stores. The publications also were wrapped in plastic to prevent young people from browsing through them.

And then there's this:

Readers upset as Shukan Post says no more nude pix

Since the restrictions against photos displaying female models' pubic hair were dropped in the early 1990s, many of Japan's male-oriented weekly magazines have titillated their mostly male readership with eight to 10 pages of glossy color photos per issue. So it came as something of a shock to the publishing world when Takaaki Ebihara, the editor-in-chief of Shukan Post, announced that his magazine would no longer run such photographs.

I think they've had it. At lunch I was at the local conbini with a salaryman from my office and he almost started choking when I told him.

[katakori]

a tragedy, i tell you...

fortunatel, one can find everything for free (or very cheap) about one week later, when paper is being recycled...

[emperor]

I have noticed that lately some combinis are using string around the more expensive mags so that people are not just standing and reading and will actually make purchases of the material.
*gasp*
I have never understood when I stumble into a combini at 4 in the morning and there is always somebody standing and reading something there.. don't you people have homes to go to?????

According to one of the lecturers in my university:
the idea with the rack of mags there for the reading is so (despite Japans comfortable level of safety) the 24 hour conbinis have some sort of added security against robbery aside from some tiny obaachan or skinny college kid.
I suppose it really just acts as an incentive to draw in kids on lunchbreak or after school and then they end up buying other products.. drinks, food etc

[Quid pro quo]

"Surprisingly, the tiny Pacific island of Nuie had almost three million sites giving it the somewhat dubious distinction of being four on the list. "

Just a comment. The domain .nu is often used by swedish web sites because "nu" in swedish means "now".

[katakori]

in french it means "nude".

[Quid pro quo]

That's another thought!

[Quid pro quo]

I hope this is not a rule violation but it is a good exemple who is the culprit in smearing the reputation of the good people of Nuie. It was easy. Just take the common swedish abbreviation of "pornography" - "porr", add a ".nu" to it and behold: swedish smut.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

According to one of the lecturers in my university:
the idea with the rack of mags there for the reading is so (despite Japans comfortable level of safety) the 24 hour conbinis have some sort of added security against robbery aside from some tiny obaachan or skinny college kid.

And the reason why so many japanese do tachiyomi in the first place is so they can go to the toilet.

Some of a 12,000 endless some diary, some other diary, a blog. Well weird. But I think it's less weird than people who read on the job.

[emperor]