Joan Sinclair, a 22-year-old photographer, was working as an English teacher in Tokyo when a friend dragged her to the city's infamous Kabukicho red-light district, a neon-drenched enclave packed with 5,000 sex shops that cater to an impressively specific array of sexual fantasies and fetishes. She was hooked. Eight years later, she returned with a camera and set out to document Japan's $20 billion sex-services industry, befriending hundreds of budding sex workers and their businessman clients.
(Via Boing Boing.)
I certainly don't see it happening in the Midwest, but sooner or later this sort of thing is going to go at least relatively mainstream. Just imagine the weird fetishes incubating in the Western psyche. Somehow I see Starbucks leading the pack. ("Barista." "Bare-ista." Hmmm.)
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