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Bangkok Post
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UNCOVERED: Breaking barriers - The Untold Story

Japan is known for many things, and its rich and robust culture attracts people from around the world. Besides food, movies and manga, the country also has a reputation for having one of the biggest pornographic and adult-toy industries in the world. While sex is a natural thing, Thailand is rarely open about it because we view it as taboo, vulgar and immoral. But whether you admit it or not, we have all seen 18+ content from Japan at some point in our life.

It's quite an irony. Despite being a very conservative country, Japan is liberal and open-minded in some aspects, especially when it comes to sex. It's a place where TV commercials feature sexually suggestive themes, and where there is a massive seven-floor department store selling sex goods in the centre of Tokyo. It's also a place that has its own annual fertility festival that parades giant penis sculptures down a busy street every April. This begs the question of why the country is so open about sex when it is also a very conservative nation?

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