“There are some injuries too much for me to handle. There are a lot of cases where the men who injure the women aren’t willing to pay the medical fees,” he says. “Since it was a consensual act and the accidents weren’t planned, they should hold 50 percent of the responsibility....
I knew I’d hit a wall with no closure to the story, but I needed to get there in my relentless pursuit of knowing all the storylines this fandom has to offer, and what the characters I’d come to appreciate in the anime were “currently” up to when the manga went on hiatus. So...
"ye gods no, are you insane." He points out that he's gay, listening to opera, and wearing a kimono. She says she can now move in with Jackson with a clear conscious. He wonders why she's moving in with him. She says because he loves her. He asks if she loves...
There is a regular pass and a green pass. The green pass also allows you to ride in 1st class. 1st class is not available on all trains and believe us when we say that you also have more than enough legroom in the regular carriages. We, therefore, see no reason to buy this more ...
A pattern is different from a sloper in that it doesn’t follow the body exactly. It almost always adds fullness or additional ease in a variety of ways to the garment in order to create shape. There are places where the garment must anchor to the body or be held in place by clinging...
The dressmaker Yohji Yamamoto described his complicated relationship with perfume as follows: 'Japanese people don’t smell; they use the scent on the kimono but they don’t put it on the body – this tradition is still there. So scent is a memory – it stays on the chair after she ...
The lines between a wrapper and a tea gown could be quite blurry: there are patterns from the 1890s for ‘a wrapper or a tea gown’ – the distinction between the two would probably come down to the fabrics used. Simple fabrics would indicate a wrapper, “rather gorgeous materials” a ...
aI hope to have a surprise 我希望有惊奇 [translate] aAfter being abducted by the BDSM master Osada Steve and his devil-masked helpers, a young Japanese geisha in kimono gets punished and tied up under a roof. After some hard-core whipping she is hung head down and the devil-masked ...
A tug-of-war began between my rational mind laying out the facts: it’s daytime, there are families all around you, you are safe; and my traumatized voice responded: it’s dangerous, you’re alone, and you can’t trust anyone. I jogged out of the most crowded areas of the center ...
The most unforgettable meal of the entire program was on the second-to-last day of the UTRIP internship. My professor invited the assistant professor and me to an authentic sushi supper with all the bells and whistles. A kimono-clad hostess ushered us into a private dining room, where we ...