Warning: this is a scholarly treatment of a common human experience. And Christian wowsers should not try to take it away from us.
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You poms (aussie for Brits) are so lucky. Starting October 3, the British Museum has an exhibition of Shunga. "What's shunga?" you ask. "Shunga is sexual paradise, i.e. just like the depictions of paradisaical life in the WT, that enthralled us and enlivened our hope, so in the tightly controlled Tokugawa society, shunga provided release. A synonym was warai-e (laughing pictures), which sounds coy, until you learn that it also means masturbation.
The advertisement says,
Shunga - sex and pleasure in Japanese art
3 October 2013 – 5 January 2014
Parental guidance advised
So don't take your ten y.o. son or daughter, unless your willing to provide detailed explanations of the feelings they will face shortly as they expoerience the physical sensations of puberty.
The Museum's detail can be found at: