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Love hotels : the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan / photographs by Misty Keasler ; essays by Rod Slemmons and Natsuo Kirino.

Title: Love hotels : the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan / photographs by Misty Keasler ; essays by Rod Slemmons and Natsuo Kirino.
Author: Keasler, Misty.
Publication: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2006.

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1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate dcor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan.

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9780811856416
0811856410

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^^2006007735

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65197752
SCSB-13777811

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