Today’s You’re Doing It Wrong story takes us to Japan for a revealing look at the latest thing that’s getting the Japanese off these days.
Buried at the end of a lengthy article about how overpopulated Tokyo is and how crazy the rush hour commute is on the city’s trains is a remarkable bit of news. Apparently, it’s become so common for Japanese men to grope women on the trains during their commute, that a company has started its own fake “pervert train” specifically catering to gropers.
Little more than a stone’s throw from the huge Shibuya station is the “Shibuya Pink Girl’s Club”, which on its varied menu offers a chikan densha, or pervert train.The “groper’s course” starts at ¥12,000 ($130), where the connoisseur picks out from the menu the girl of his choice, dressed either as a schoolgirl or office receptionist. This girl then beckons him through the window of a mock-up train carriage, which not only broadcasts station announcements, but even shakes and rattles. For the next 45 minutes the connoisseur is under no risk of arrest as he gropes to gay abandon—before joining the slumberers on one of the last real trains home.
Suddenly, those Japanese game shows don’t seem so weird any more.
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