Picture Perfect Paranoia

From the article:

When maid cafes first started to appear in the back streets of Akihabara around 2000, geeks were finally able to live out their fantasies of being gawked at and served by pretty, submissive girls for a small fee.

Since then, Japan’s repertoire of fetish restaurants has expanded to include sukiyaki served by ninjas and sushi eaten off of a blow-up doll’s naked body. The phenomenon is traveling, spawning maid cafe openings abroad. Also:

What’s so special about Shomuni, then?

“This is the only restaurant where you find servers that give raw strip teases to dining customers,” says Yamazaki, the manager of the restaurant.

With hand mirrors and binoculars at their disposal, the customers can ask the waitresses to mix them a cocktail, feed them beef from their hands, or strip down to their underwear and change into a cosplay outfit of their choice. Cafes of various fethishes have sprouted throughout Geek Region (a.k.a. Akihabara). Feminist react to such phenomenon.

“Men who pay women to gratify their pervy fetishes are not just boors, they’re johns,” said blogger Twisty Faster, who runs a popular feminist blog called I Blame The Patriarchy. “That these johns get off on symbolically sexually harassing their office mates doesn’t exactly represent a soaring pinnacle of human endeavor.

Now here’s where it gets somewhat hilarious.

It’s possible that… customers will feel less inclined to feel up their secretaries the next day at work.

Readers react:

we’re talking nerds and cosplay staff here. this is yet another dumb caricature of japanese culture.

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