Japan's new national pastime? Panty
peeking
Over the past few years, the careers of some of Japan's best and
brightest young talents have been squandered as they were caught
trying to catch sneaky glances at women's panties.
At times it can seem as though panty watching is almost a national
pastime and many men openly admit that they'd prefer to see a woman
in her undergarments than totally bereft of clothes.
"The lure of women's panties runs very deep," T, a self-professed
panty pioneer having traded and smelled hundreds of thousands of
pairs of women's knickers, tells Weekly Playboy. "That single piece
of cloth covers up a woman's most intimate areas. That changes the
mere piece of cloth into a mysterious garment. A woman's private
parts are the part of her furthest away from a man, which makes
them the most interesting part of her as far as men are concerned.
And it's those panties offering the woman's most interesting part,
its last line of defense against the outside world. That's why
panties are romantic."
There are other opinions about the allure of undies.
"There's nothing romantic about the way some men see women's
panties. Those types who commit criminal acts just to get a glimpse
up a woman's skirt are the ultimate masochistic-narcissists.
They're screaming out to the world that they're incorrigibly
kinky," Hayama, a writer of erotica also well versed in psychology,
tells Weekly Playboy. "Recently, there's been a huge upsurge of
masochistic narcissists who revel in the fact that women find them
repulsive. The growth is particularly noticeable among
intellectuals and academics."
Japan's briefs buffs generally hate skirts more than anything else.
Shrinks say they're not surprised.
"Being able to catch a glimpse of something that you can't normally
see provides an incredible amount of pleasure. If women always went
around dressed only in their panties, nobody would ever get
excited, right?" psychologist Hideki Wada tells Weekly Playboy.
"Men are animals with an extraordinarily strong sense of curiosity.
If something is hidden, or they are forbidden from seeing it, they
only want to get their hands on it even more."