Fantasy Hotels
I understand the idea of having a sexy get-away for a racy weekend to live out fantasies, but having a toddler room? With a child's fair ride and pictures of small children on the walls? A subway room--you know, for those men who can't grope women on real subways anymore. This is just terrifying.
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The manga room where "no means yes"...
Another one that creeped me out was the Holocaust-type room with the toilet chamber...
Now, maybe I'm a prude. BUT I'm not terribly comfortable with a place that specifcally caters to pedophiles, rapists, gropers, skirt flippers, and people that find genocide sexy. I know, I don't have to go there, but I'm just stating my opinion.
There's also a Spider-Man room, a Space Room, a Hello Kitty Room and an Arctic Room.
Oh, there's a school room setting but fantasies of dressing like a student or a school teacher do not equal = rapist pedophile groper.
The pictures, btw, are from a book called Love Hotels about the most creative Love Hotels in Japan (the people of Wired just decided to make fun of the whole thing by adding clever captions). It may seem bizarre to us, but in Japan you can pay to play Sir Lancelor and Guinevere in a fake castle, or raunchy French Maid in your very own plastic mansion. Frankly, I don't mind.
Who are you to say what turns people on? There's no connection between the logical part of the mind and what the body responds to. Some people might want to have sex in a train. Some people might really like carnivals. Who gives a flying flip what other people get up to in the bedroom or hotel room as long as it involves one or more consenting adults?
Also, you might want to label the post NSFW for some of the rooms have pictures of less than clad women.
I think my problem with it is the descriptions the article gives of each room.
According to the article, it's not about wanting to have sex on a carnival ride, but mentions pedophiles directly or gropers on the subway, since in Japan women now have their own trains.
So, perhaps it's the slant of the article implying these things along with each room picture? I don't know. That was where my reservations came from, the descriptions more than the rooms or the idea of a fantasy room itself.
I clicked on the link and you're right, the descriptions there do directly mention pedophilia. I only read the one about the merry go round, but it definitely talked about groping a child.
Who wrote those descriptions though? The link seems to be to Wired.com, not to the hotel itself. Maybe someone else wrote an article about how they think the idea of fantasy rooms is creepy, and they're putting their own slant on what the rooms would be used for.
If the rooms ARE meant for acting out illegal scenarios, then its an interesting question. I'd actually like to see some real research on this. Does fantasizing and acting out things like pedophilia increase, decrease, or have no effect on a pedophile's likelihood to molest an actual child? I could see arguments for both sides but I'm not aware of any research on it.
I have read a study that is similar. The internet and all its porn reached some areas sooner than others. Someone did a study that showed that when people got more access to the internet, rates sexual crimes like peeping and rape went down. Now of course its hard to prove causation in a study like that, but it seems that some people might choose to stay home and watch a video of a fake rape rather than go attack an actual person. Its still creepy and I still wouldn't want to date that person, but its better overall than them actually hurting real people.
PS. Either way, I think a place like this should remain legal.
I think the writer was trying to be ha-ha funny with the descriptions. Like "Look at those crazy Asians!" It's Wired.com, not the hotel's website.
As funny (or not) as a gigantic carrousel may be, fantasy love hotels are very common in Japan and many of them are themed. I think having sex in a room that has a space theme, Hello Kitty or the carousel is tacky but these are adults who enjoy that sort of thing.
Las Vegas has heart-shaped water-beds and you can get married by Elvis. So?
I don't really see the problem with this, since I'm sure it will only involve consensual sex between adults.
You'd be surprised by the number of people who get off by being put in diapers and given a binky.
Maybe it's because I'm asexual, but quite frankly those rooms disgusted me.
Sorry, but I firmly believe that what goes on in people's heads and in their pants is their business. If thinking about having sex with children or groping on the subway or whatever gets them off, that's great, as long as they don't inflict it on anyone that won't or can't consent. I think it's good that there's places specifically for people to indulge their fantasies, whatever they may be.
Also, I'm no pedophile, but I would totally rent the Carousel Room, it looks gorgeous. In fact, all of the rooms seem very well decorated.
I would so NOT want to be on housekeeping staff in this hotel...
I had a dentist barbie. Then her batteries ran out and she got this really evil voice (like a voice of a devil in a movie or something, really slow and deep haha!)Seriously though, she's just a hunk of plastic. She's what you want her to be. If little girls want to play princess, they're going bedroom furniture to do it whether the box says "executive barbie" or "princess barbie". My barbies were olympic athletes, ninjas, models, hairdressers, dancers, and sometimes they pretended they were mermaids.