Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators

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WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs having sex outdoors? Was 1970s Tokyo so crowded, its apartments so small, that they were forced to seek privacy in public parks at night? And what about those peeping toms? Are the couples as oblivious as they seem to the gawkers trespassing on their nocturnal intimacy?
(read it all here)

courtesy the New York Times

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