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4.0 out of 5 stars Outrageous, Politically Incorrect Fun
Boye de Mente pulls out all the stops in this wild "expose" of Japanese women. Typical chapters "Why Foreigners Like Japanese Women", "In Japan You're Never Too Old" and "How To Be a Gigolo." "Unlike Westerners, the Japanese never considered sex evil, and as a result, sensual pleasure in itself was never the subject of moral censorship." An interesting read.
Published on November 28, 2006 by Laurence Bush

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3.0 out of 5 stars Read it for fun
De Mente's terribly out of date book is an excellent glimpse of what the sex trade in Japan must have been like in the fifties and sixties. While often terribly politically incorrect, at least de Mente's anecdotes keep the reader entertained. The book is also defiantly unapologetic about the aims of sex seeking readers and foreigners in Japan. An interesting read, but...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Read it for fun, January 1, 2010
De Mente's terribly out of date book is an excellent glimpse of what the sex trade in Japan must have been like in the fifties and sixties. While often terribly politically incorrect, at least de Mente's anecdotes keep the reader entertained. The book is also defiantly unapologetic about the aims of sex seeking readers and foreigners in Japan. An interesting read, but don't suppose that it will help your "game" if you travel to Japan.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Outrageous, Politically Incorrect Fun, November 28, 2006
This review is from: Bachelor's Japan (Paperback)
Boye de Mente pulls out all the stops in this wild "expose" of Japanese women. Typical chapters "Why Foreigners Like Japanese Women", "In Japan You're Never Too Old" and "How To Be a Gigolo." "Unlike Westerners, the Japanese never considered sex evil, and as a result, sensual pleasure in itself was never the subject of moral censorship." An interesting read.
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Bachelor's Japan by Boye Lafayette De Mente (Paperback - January 1, 1995)
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