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Need I say more? Ok, I will, these are called 'dakimakura', hugging pillows, or dutch wives and are quite popular among the geeks, dorks, nerds, dweebs, jugheads, eggheads, gaywads, dickwads, dorkwads, dingbats, cretins, shut-ins, and socially inept of Japan. They come in two flavors: bikini idols, and underage anime girls.</img>
Need I say more?
Of course not, but I will anyway. Also known as 'dakimakura' or Dutch wives, hugging pillows are quite popular among the geeks, dorks, nerds, dweebs, jugheads, eggheads, gaywads, dickwads, dorkwads, dingbats, cretins, shut-ins, and just plain socially inept of Japan.
This is a piece of celebrity memorabilia. Misako Yasuda is one of a couple hundred of Japan's supermodel celebrities.
Now, keep your mind clean, otherwise you'll never understand.
Japanese Culture is extremely different from American, so they don't think the way you do. Ideologically, Emotionally and Sexually, the Japanese are a much more liberated people. This means they're actually a lot less likely to have psychological issues. On the other hand, most people have issues with them.
This pillow is the same idea as a cardboard cutout, bedsheets, or a body pillow. The Japanese don't automatically think "sex toy" whenever they see something that turns them on.
"Hugging Pillow" is a poor mistranslation of "Body Pillow"
In Japan, they have "Modeling Videos," a kind of nerd's music video based upon (nonsexual) beauty. Unlike Americans, they don't jump from "Divinely Gorgeous" to "Sex Goddess" in a nano-second. They stay fixated on beauty the way a 9-year-old does. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Not really, in the minds of Japanese anyhow.
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/misako-yasuda-g...