japan's adult period was a golden age of
peace culture and a lot of sex the red
light district of the capital bustled
with men from all over paying top dollar
for women who hated them now that's all
well and good but what about the other
kind of sex the kind between two males
did that exist you betcha you'll be
happy to know that that did exist and it
was fascinating until you find out that
it was mainly sex between men and boys
so go ahead and throw up then put on
your historian thinking condom or iud
and you should be ready for this topic
just a warning though during the section
on bedroom stuff i will be describing
sex acts while desperately searching for
euphemisms it was a perfectly normal
thing for men to have relationships with
much younger boys back then these
relationships were an important part of
life back then boys did not grow up
straight into men like a caterpillar
turning into a pupa before emerging as a
butterfly boys had a stage of life
before that beautiful butterfly stage of
manhood women did not have a pupa stage
boys in this stage were called wakashu
usually translated as youth they were no
longer children once a boy became a
wakashu it was open season for men to
target them sexually you gotta
understand people back then men and
women thought wakashu looked sexy as
hell there was no rule on what age boys
became wakashu and what age they became
men roughly the wakashu range was from
11 years old to mid-20s but there were
wakashu as young as seven and as old as
80 we'll see why the ages were all over
the place later now a man in a
relationship with a really young wakashu
was generally frowned upon not because
it was exploitation of minors don't be
ridiculous they just thought those men
had poor taste what kind of a man goes
after immature 14 year olds it's like
saying who drinks cheap 10 wine from the
supermarket or who eats pizza with
pineapple people with bad judgments
that's who wakashu were considered most
attractive at around 15 to 17 years old
poets wrote about how wakashu beauty was
like cherry blossoms it blooms quickly
but vanishes just as fast
the age of a wakashu wasn't as important
as their behavior and the physical
changes in their puberty ridden bodies
one writer wrote that a wakashu reached
peak beauty when pimples started
appearing on his face which seems like
some weird pimple fetish but it was
because they thought pimples were a sign
of sexual maturity
after that short period where wakashu
made men lose it just by looking at them
ewakashi was seen as more mature which
had its own appeal but for most people a
wakashu was past his prime the moment
puberty hit him like a ton of pricks and
his perfect body was deformed by facial
hair and a deeper voice
at some points usually around the
mid-20s a wakashu had a coming-of-age
ceremony and became an adult this made
them off limits to other adult men no
more male male hanky-panky sex between
men probably did exist back then but it
wasn't accepted men were not supposed to
sleep with other men except that they
went to a male prostitute who was
dressed as a wakashu but that's a whole
other topic now that we covered the ages
of wakashu you'll be surprised to know
that age didn't matter much these days
we determine adulthood by age in most
places before 18 you're a child and when
you reach 18 you're a child with acne no
you're an adult theoretically using age
to determine adulthood it seems like
common sense we don't even question it
like how else would you do it that's how
people have always done it well not
quite and not the japanese what made you
an adult was an age it was mainly
clothing and hairstyle if you were a
wakashu you wore the same type of
kimonos that girls wore ones with the
inner part of the sleeves left open
including the elegant furisore which had
long dangling sleeves wakashu clothing
became this erotic thing people even
called a sexy wakashu a foreign like oh
i'd like to wrap the furisote around my
body when a boy left childhood and
became a wakashu the top of his head was
shaved giving rise to the wakashu's
sexiest and most recognizable feature
the four lock a patch of hair in front
of that shaved part they tied the hair
in the back into a top nut and tied the
forelock back over the shaved spot in a
few different styles for luck fetish was
real it was like cleavage or a hard set
of abs no really men went crazy over the
forelock they had dreams about it
touched themselves in the dream and then
woke up and touched themselves to the
memory of the dream if you're not
convinced how about this they often use
the word for lock instead of wakashu
like hey tom check out that sweet four
lock at the bar or i'd like to split
that four lock in half or easy breezy
beautiful cover four lock
okay so now that you're an expert in
wakashu appearance can you tell me who
in this artwork is the woman and who is
the wakashu women and wakashu wear the
same clothing so they look similar if
you said this one congrats you spot the
boy you win my applause and a visit from
the fbi someone with the keen naughty
eye can see that little patch of skin on
this person's head that's the shaved
head of a wakashu often in art the only
difference between women and wakashu is
that little bald spot
upon becoming an adult ewakashu lost the
furisore and replaced it with the dole
men's kimono with no dangly bits and his
precious forelock was shaved
parents sometimes had a problem with
their wakashu sons being way too
attractive they would worry so much
about their sons sleeping around or
getting hit on by thirsty men that they
would force him to become an adult early
and shave his forelock finally making
him a little uglier because it was all
about the hair and clothing and not
about age there were sometimes wakashu
who were 80 years old they just kept
wearing the dress and the hairstyle and
behaved like young men you probably know
some of these wakashu in your life these
boys never became adults they just
became husbands
let's talk about what happened in these
male male relationships it was called
shudo or the way of youths they called
it a way like an art like the art of
sword making or like bushido the way of
the warrior or like the art of eating an
ice cream cone without letting it melt
on your hand like all of those things
shudo was an art to master a path to be
pursued and perfected so take my hand
and let me lead you down this path
through a magical forest of horny men
there were all kinds of customs and
proper ways to act all centered around
this relationship between a man and a
wakashu and yes there were also proper
ways to behave in the bedroom talking
about judo will probably take up a whole
video so we'll focus on the life of the
wakashu within shudo leave a like and
comments if you want to see a shoot or
video as a wakashu in adult japan you
were a walking man magnet okay you
couldn't take two steps without tripping
on a man trying to get inside your
kimono this desire was one way wakashu
were not supposed to have desire for men
it was part of their allure the adult
men were the ones on the prowl so as a
wakashu if you didn't like them why in
the world would you enter a relationship
because of compassion if a man sincerely
showed his longing you were supposed to
feel like oh he wants me so dearly and
look at how much he's suffering let's
touch penis wakashu who rejected men
left and right was seen as cold-hearted
it was also rude to reject the man
merely because he had lower social
status or small bank accounts of course
these were ideals in practice wakashu
rejected men all the time and sometimes
wakashu did desire their male partners
when a man and a wakashu became a couple
they often spoke vows to each other or
wrote them down some even went further
showing off their loyalty by stabbing
their thighs or arms tearing off a
fingernail or even chopping a finger off
look if you can't even cut off a finger
for your partner are you really in love
the easiest way i can explain the man
wakashu relationship is the man was a
mentor who slept with you the man gave
the wakashu protection financial help
and was a role model in return the
wakashu gave the man respect obedience
and his body it seems a bit weird
because today relationships are supposed
to be between equals if there is a power
imbalance it's questionable like a
teacher shouldn't sleep with a student
without a camera crew but in a wakashi
relationship the power imbalance was
necessary it was the main thing the man
wore the panties in the relationship
even the attraction was one way the man
was the thirsty one and the wakashu was
the object of desire you never saw a
wakashu carry around a bottle of
aquafina because they were not thirsty
let's talk about bedroom stuff yeah they
did have sex this shows why some
historians have called wakashu a third
gender in the adult period they split
the types of people who could have sexy
time and some men women and wakashu it
was a sex triangle and who doesn't love
triangles now you got to be careful not
to picture a wakashu as a stereotypical
flamboyant gay man no their
attractiveness was more masculine than
feminine shudo was associated with
warriors and strength and poking things
with sticks a wakashu was supposed to
stay faithful to his partner and the man
was supposed to stay faithful to his own
needs so he could sleep around but the
wakashu could sleep with other women or
other wakashu a wakashu's partner in bed
was expected to be older than him the
main sex act in a shoot all relationship
was through the bum with the adult man
being the penetrator and the wakashu
being the penetrate t it was never the
other way around this this was very
important only weirdos did it the other
way around
some rarer acts included putting the
man's excalibur between the wakashu's
thighs instead of full-on insertion but
everyone agreed that the real thing was
better and a wakashu sometimes used his
hands on his partner in preparation for
the main course oral didn't seem to be a
thing at least it wasn't encouraged or
they also kissed the man was supposed to
be the one in charge the one enjoying
the whole ordeal and it was an ordeal
for the wakashu the wakashu was not
supposed to enjoy it not because the man
went out of his way to hurt him or
anything but because the conventional
wisdom was that using the butt to import
any foreign objects was generally
unpleasant the person receiving it only
did it for duty for affection or for
money writers often went on and on about
the pain and suffering of being a bottom
one lord remarked that a tyrannical
government was like butt's play the
people at the top had fun while the ones
at the bottom suffered he later went on
to have two netflix comedy specials in
art when a man is engaged in healthy
coupling with his wakashu the wakashu's
penis is usually not shown because it
wasn't important it wasn't even supposed
to be hard getting hard as a wakashu was
a bit embarrassing usually when it is
shown it's being used as an extension of
the man's own penis like when the
wakashu was in between a man and a woman
now there were people who enjoyed
someone driving the opposite way on
their one-way street but those people
were called weird as you can see there
was a lot of sex talk but sex was not
what defined wakashu relationships sex
usually happened maybe once a year to a
wakashu so pretty infrequently or
frequently for some of you in some cases
the couple didn't sleep together at all
there was a difference between mere sex
and shudo ideally the relationship was
about mentoring a youth into adulthood
one writer criticized men who slept
around with a bunch of wakashu saying
these men did not follow shudo they just
wanted to sleep around the wakashu this
whole stage of life for boys disappeared
during the meiji period as japan
modernized the meiji government pushed
to get rid of the old clothing and
hairstyles since clothing and hairstyle
were the two things that defined the
wakashu as those disappeared the wakashu
also disappeared but fear not something
from the wakashu times may have survived
in the modern day the look of the
bishonen or beautiful boy i hear the
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