Last Updated on 06/29/2022
May 23 is "Kiss Day.
The reason why May 23 is "Kiss Day" is because on this day in 1946, the first Japanese movie in which a kissing scene was performed, "Hatachi no Seishun" (directed by Yasushi Sasaki), was released.
Until then, Japanese people had been hesitant to kiss in public, but the GHQ of the time propagandized by having kissing scenes filmed, saying "To reform the Japanese people's way of thinking, it is essential to express one's desires and feelings openly in public."
By the way, deep kissing is now a common practice in the sex industry, but until around the end of the Showa period, it was not uncommon to find sex workers who did not allow kissing. I remember that this was especially the case in Turkish (now soapland).
Even if they allowed their customers to kiss them, they did not allow them to kiss them in order to manipulate their hearts and minds. In those days, when the sex industry was not yet a light part-time job as it is today, this was a sense of professionalism and pride as a sex worker.
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⭐Kissing in the Edo period was a sexual act itself
The history of kissing among the Japanese is surprisingly long, and there is a theory that it has been practiced since the Heian period (794-1192).
According to one theory, such a description can already be found in "Tosa Nikki (Tosa Diary)" by Kikanuki, which is said to have been written in the early to mid-Heian period.
Why do people kiss in the first place? When you think about it, kissing is a mysterious act.
Scientists' research suggests that it originated from "the act of giving chewed food to a partner (e.g., a baby) by passing it from mouth to mouth," but it is not known for sure. Since this is not directly related to this column, I will skip the details for now.
Kissing was already practiced in the Heian period (794-1185), but the nuances of kissing at that time were quite different from those of today.
In those days, kissing was called "kuchisui," or "mouth sucking," and was performed as a caress for sex. It was not as light as the kisses exchanged between lovers today.
In the Edo period (1603-1867), mouth sucking further evolved into a sexual technique.
In the Edo period how-to sex book "Gyuukouken," there is a description of how to perform mouth sucking.
When you are in the bedroom, you should first gently wrap yourself around the woman and tell her a pleasant tale of lovemaking to get her in the mood, and then suck her mouth. Do not let the woman suck the man's tongue.
The woman's tongue should be taken out and taken into the man's mouth, and he should pull it out with his lips and suck on it so that his teeth do not come in contact with it.
From the above text, it seems that deep kissing has been practiced since the Edo period. It is a bit surprising that deep kissing existed from such a long time ago.
⭐With the civilization's enlightenment, kissing went from "mouth sucking" to "kissing"
In the sense of the time, oral sucking was a kind of sex technique. To put it bluntly, it was equivalent to fellatio or cunnilingus, so it is not surprising that it was not something that could be done openly in public.
However, as exchange with foreign countries flourished from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period (1868-1912), various cultures were introduced from Europe and the United States.
"Kissing" was one of them.
Although ostensibly similar to oral sucking, the kiss imported from Europe and the United States differed from oral sucking in one crucial way. It is an exchange of kisses as a form of greeting.
In the West, kissing has a meaning as a greeting before it is a caress in sex. Japanese people could never understand this feeling. That is not surprising. As I have said many times before, kissing is the very act of sex for Japanese people.
Because of these circumstances, kissing as a "greeting" was never accepted by the Japanese.
On the other hand, a new Japanese word was needed to translate the word "kiss," but the meaning of "kissing" was different from that of "Kuchisui," so it could not be applied as is. The word "Kcuhisui" was then devised (is it now a dead word?). (Is it now a dead word?). Incidentally, "kiss" refers to the lips. Kiss means to make contact with the lips.
⭐Spirit-Flesh Separation and "Platonic Love"
As mentioned at the beginning of this article, kissing scenes were prohibited in Japan, even in movies and dramas, even in the Showa period.
Some people, however, longed for kissing. There were many men and women who frowned at the kissing scenes of Westerners in foreign-made dramas and movies, but in their hearts were enraptured and longed to "do (or be done) it like that" themselves.
This trend seems to have already existed since the Meiji period (1868-1912).
Historically speaking, the concept of "love" surprisingly did not exist in pre-modern Japan.
That seems absurd, doesn't it? It may be a little difficult to understand, but this is largely due to the unique Japanese way of thinking regarding sexual love.
In Japan, until the Edo period (1603-1867), the mainstream of male-female relationships was "love" strongly linked to carnal desires, but after the Meiji period (1868-1912), the idea of "separation of flesh and spirit" based on Christianity spread, especially among intellectuals.
What emerged was "platonic love," which is pure love apart from carnal desires.
Platonic love brought about a major change in Japanese romantic behavior. The most symbolic act of platonic love is kissing. Instead of the traditional "oral sucking" of sex, Japanese people began to secretly yearn for "kissing," in which a man and a woman confirm their affection for each other.
After the war, the ban on kissing was lifted at the initiative of GHQ, but the image of kissing as a sign of affection remained imprinted in the Japanese psyche for a long time. This was probably the reason why many prostitutes did not allow their male customers to kiss them.
As a side note, kissing also existed in the Showa period. In the early Showa period, there was a business called "kissing girls" who sold kisses for 50 sen per kiss. This story shows how valuable kissing was to the Japanese people of that time.
As time has passed and kissing scenes have become commonplace in movies and TV dramas, kissing has also come to be a part of the sex industry as a regular form of entertainment.
According to the author's firsthand experience, kissing became popular in the sex industry around the time of the appearance of "Imekura" (sex club) and "M-sex" (sex club). After the burst of the bubble economy, services became more and more extreme as the sex industry diversified, and deep kissing, anal licking, and barebacking, which are still used today, were introduced.
To put it somewhat exaggeratedly, this was a Copernican turn of the sex industry. Even I was surprised at that time, "Oh, they can do this much for us? I was also surprised at that time.
I personally think that the inclusion of kissing in the play was a shift from conventional physical services to services that focused on "pseudo-romance. This trend continues to this day, and I believe it has become a source of pride for professional sex workers to be able to provide pseudo-romance.
⭐Summary of Deep Kissing Thoughts
Looking at the history of mankind, it is documented that kissing was practiced as early as 1,500 B.C. Humans have exchanged many kisses throughout our long history. Not only kisses of affection, but also kisses of greeting, kisses of submission ……etc.
Considering this, it can be said that the history of kissing becoming common in the Japanese sex industry is short and very recent.
Needless to say, kissing performed in a sex establishment is part of the service. It is a "play" for the sex worker and part of the job description. It can be called "business kissing.
It is not that prostitutes like kissing themselves (although there may be some prostitutes who like kissing). As long as it is a service, the customer must also pay attention to certain manners.
First of all, cleanliness comes first, although it is not limited to kissing. (Eating dumplings or other food before playing is a bad idea.) At the very least, gargle with isodine before kissing.
Also, don't be too insistent on deep kissing. Be careful not to kiss too hard or too enthusiastically, such as licking the inside of the mouth with drool or exchanging saliva. Be sure to kiss smartly.
It is only a kiss, but it is a kiss. You may want to reconsider how you should play with a prostitute through kissing.
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