Pink samurai : love, marriage & sex in contemporary Japan / Nicholas Bornoff.

Part I: New Year

1 HOTELS AND LEGENDS

The Creation Myths The Coital Genesis Death and Pollution Impurity and the Female Purification

Children of Child-like Gods

The Celestial Strip-show Red and White Love Hotels

2 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

Figures in a Landscape New Year, Traditional and Televised Who Are the Japanese?

The First True Rulers

Buddhism - The Gentle Art of Persuasion

3 THE FAMILY MAINSTAYS

The Older Generation

Mother and Father

The Workaholics

The Bachelor Life
Pink Samurai

Office Blossoms Playtime

4 THE MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND

The Honourable Once-over
Tying the Knot

5 HIGH-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

Boys Will Be Boys
Blackboard Jungle
Education Mama
Multiplication-the Name of the Game
Hau Tsu Sekkusu - How to Sex
Of Babies...
...And Birthday Suits
The Genital Vocabulary
What's in a Word?

Part II: The Rites of Spring

6 PHALLICISM AND FERTILITY

The Metal Phallus Shrine
Kanamara-sama, the Legends
The Phallus and the Sword
The Jibeta Festival
Phallic Buddhism Benten and Kannon
Wanton and Sister of Mercy Rural Fertility Worship versus Urban Law
The Phallic Stones
Dosojin Today Yobai

7 HEIAN IDYLL

Life in Heian
Female Lines
The Invisible Woman
Polygamy: More but not Merrier
The Reluctant Virgin
The Blind Date as a Fine Art
Going by the Book
The Wistaria Withers

Part III: The Venereal Equinox

8 THE EDO PERIOD
The Dawn of the Samurai
Trouble with Bath-Houses and Brothels

9 THE GREAT INDOORS
The Shogun at Home
A World Without Men
Lonely Hearts Columns - the Way of Do-It-Yourself
Launching the Floating World

10 THE CULTURE OF DESIRE
Kabuki-the Theatre of Licence
Love versus Duty
The Floating World in Words
Spring in Pictures
Shunga Messages

11 SPRING FOR SALE
La Vie en Rose-Edo Style
Decorum in Dreamland
The Great Harlot Queens
The Flourish of Strumpets
Stripping off the Finery
Modernizing Japan
The Yoshiwara Whitewashed
Twilight on the Yoshiwara
Armageddon
Pan-pan and Uncle Sam

Part IV: Heatwaves in the Water Trade

12 MIZUSHOBAI-THE WATER BUSINESS
The Water
The Way of Drinking
Shinjuku-the Postwar Pleasureland

13 THE LADIES UPSTREAM
The Geisha
Geisha Politics
Geisha Party
Fights, Finery and Affairs
The Geisha Climate
The Bar Hostess

14 SIRENS IN THE SILT
Turkish Delights
Lullaby of Soapland
Nami-chan: the New Wave
The Soft Sell
Blind Dates and Pink Cards
Love and Prostitution
The Cafés and Cabarets go Pink
The Hand Jive

15 STRIPPING JAPAN STYLE: THE GENITAL CIRCUS
Jun Sayama - The Man Who Would Be String
The Naked Theatre
Open Stage
Honban Manaita Show: Live on the Chopping Board
The Genital Circus
Enter the Law - Kind of
Life Backstage

16 ON THE DARK SIDE
Hard Facts and Vague Figures
The Clap Trap
Zegen-The Men who Conned the Pros
Japayuki
Riding on the Valkyries
Gangsters and the Labour Market
Rape Your Neighbour - Monsters in Paradise

Part V: A Quirk for all Seasons
17 THE CRUEL WORLD Toilet Tunes
Blood Feast
Enduring the Unendurable for Pleasure
Deadlier than the Male
The Phantom Seductress

18 NAKED DISSENT
Defiance and Dissimulation
Hidden is Beautiful
Low-City Laughter
Art, Dissent and Self-liberation
Bleating About the Bush: Censorship in Japan
Bye-bye Pink Cinema, Hello Adult Video
Out of the Armpit, If It Should Honourably Please You
Kuroki on Camera

19 THE REALM OF THE SEXLESS
Okama-the Potted Persuasion
Beautiful Death
The Congress of Shellfish
Dreams of Young Girls
Host Clubs

Part VI: A New Era
20 THE HARD ROAD TO EQUALITY
Because They're Women
The Men in the Seat
Lysistrata Comes to Tokyo
The New Moral Order
Paradise Lost
A New Era for the Yamashitas