Pink samurai : love, marriage & sex in contemporary Japan [New Year; Hotels and Legends; In the Middle of the Road; The Family Mainstays; The Marriage Go-Round; High-School Confidential; The Rites of Spring; Phallicism and Fertility; The Heian Idyll; The Venereal Equinox; The Edo Period; The Great Outdoors; The Culture of Desire; Spring for Sale; Heatwaves in the Water Trade; Mizu Shobai-The Water Business; The Ladies Upstream; Sirens in the Silt; Stripping Japan Style The Genital Circus; On the Dark Side; V A Quirk for All Seasons; The Cruel World; Naked Dissent; The Realm of the Sexless; A New Era; The Hard Road to Equality.] by Bornoff, Nicholas - 1991

New York : Pocket Books, 1991, 1991. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. xvi, 492 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0671742655; 9780671742652; 0671742663; 9780671742669 LCCN: 90-25924 ; LC: HQ18.J3; Dewey: 306.7/0952 ; OCLC: 22889830 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Part I: New Year -- 1. Hotels and Legends -- 2. In the Middle of the Road -- 3. The Family Mainstays -- 4. The Marriage Go-Round -- 5. High-School Confidential -- Part II: The Rites of Spring -- 6. Phallicism and Fertility -- 7. The Heian Idyll -- Part III: The Venereal Equinox -- 8. The Edo Period -- 9. The Great Outdoors -- 10. The Culture of Desire -- 11. Spring for Sale -- Part IV: Heatwaves in the Water Trade -- 12. Mizu Shobai-The Water Business -- 13. The Ladies Upstream -- 14. Sirens in the Silt -- 15. Stripping Japan Style: The Genital Circus -- 16. On the Dark Side -- Part V: A Quirk for All Seasons -- 17. The Cruel World -- 18. Naked Dissent -- 19. The Realm of the Sexless -- Part VI: A New Era -- 20. The Hard Road to Equality. ; "A probing look at Japanese sexuality, relationships, and love combines serious reporting and exhaustive research to offer a deeper understanding of the relations between the sexes in Japan" ; some photos of nudes, provocative manga images, sexual stone statues, etc ; VG.