Naked Director Author’s Insight: Midnight Shinjuku Kabukicho, Japan’s Wonderland
Where does this town's "attraction" come from? The Tokyu Kabukicho Tower towers over the town, a town of desire.
Waiting for the “reverse stand-up
After Corona, Okubo Park was in chaos. Standing girls had appeared around Okubo Hospital, which is located next to the park, and the area was packed with men who were buying them. It was like a festival spectacle.
When the event was picked up on YouTube and social networking sites, even more people gathered, and even onlookers started to gather.
Standing girls, which used to be synonymous with older prostitutes, have been replaced by young amateurs around 20 years old, and at 15,000 yen, they are now inexpensive. Thus, Okubo Park was transformed into a festival.
The area around the park, which had been neglected, changed after the police busted it last fall.
At the end of December, when I visited the park for the first time in a long while, I saw no standing handcuffs, or rather, three of them. They were dressed in twin-tail hair and minis.
What was more numerous were the men who came to the park to meet the standing handcuffs.
Three men in their 40s, all on their way home on a weekday evening, were lined up in a neat row. They are standing in reverse.
They line up early at the spot where she will appear in order to have intercourse with her. By gentleman’s agreement, the first in line gets to play.
I dared to interview a woman standing in line.
How much?
……”
I see a hint of caution.
She is wearing a mini dress with twin-tail black hair and no makeup. She has a charming face.
How old is she?
Eighteen.
This is an example of the aging of the stand-up crowd.
A few years ago, a college student in her early twenties told me that she used to play stand-up comic books when she was in high school.
She told me, “If I was too young, men would be wary of me, so I just assumed I was 18 (years old).
The stand-up girl I just spoke to may have been a reverse-saba (reverse age) girl, who declared her age to be higher than it was.
Perhaps sensing that I had no intention of buying, she began negotiating with a 40-something teacher-like gentleman who approached us, and within two or three minutes they disappeared into a nearby love hotel.
