david,
try this search next time you are on mixi
http://mixi.jp/search_community.pl?sort=&submit=main&keyword=%C8%BF%C6%FC&category_id=0

Is it me or are you REALLY reaching with that last connection between supporting the sex industry and "n"ationalist ideology?

Follow the money.

I understand your implication, however would it not be more clear to express this idea as something like "funds from the sex industy can/may be traced to the criminal organizations which are known to fund right wing nationalist groups"?

Your original writing seems to imply that the editors of Weekly Playboy are part and parcel of the "vast conspiracy" (to borrow a bit of dear momus's phrasology). Certainly the magazine (a sensationalist tabloid for non resident readers) employs the tactics of shocking headlines and is known primarily for its pictures of |\|ude women (sorry for the 1337 type, that word is blocked by your posting software) and support of the sex industry, but cant the same be said for almost all the shukanshi? I havent read the headline story myself, but my limited experience reading any shukanshi is sensationalist headlines and inside copy rarely match. If this is not the case in this issue, please feel free to correct me. If you mean to imply guilt by proximity, then where does your own writing fall?

That's a fine point, but I think this headline is more "macho" than just "sensational," and that violence-loving machismo seems to go hand in hand with the magazine's boob-infatuation. In the past, when Pureboi deviates from counting cup size, they tend to write sexist, racist, and rightist political essays - like if Maxim teamed up with the NY Post.

I think there's an intelligent critique of the Chinese protests, but Pureboi is just implicitly advocating the use of military force to shut "these guys" up. I found the Post's headline "Axis of Weasels" back in 2003 (about Old Europe's refusal to get involved in the Iraq War) to be very political. I think Pureboi's headline crosses the line between politics-sensationalism as well.

I need to find me a copy of that Axis of Weasels cover. That was pretty darn amusing.

What kind of use of military force are they advocating? - "gyaku-gire-buso".
I wonder if you precisely understand what it means... ;-)

http://www.seas.ac.uk/Research/SEWP/Vol2/PGConf/Wakisaka.pdf

They're not actively calling for invasion, but they are invoking the name of the SDF in response to the riots.

hey,
i don't know you, I'm from australia & just came across your site randomly. (nice site btw.)
I think you're on the money with the porn and nationalist stuff...but I think the idea that liberals in the West control the sex industry is kinda problematic. Cos yeah it's the left that promote 'freedom of speech/info" & it's the fundamentalist (right) christians who fight for censorship on explicit matieral, but the people with all their fingers in da pie (moneymakers) are pretty much the ultra rich conservative types. Someone gave me an article that showed how much money these people give the government in US to make sure their business isn't compromised...but it's late & I can't find it, so you're gonna have to take my word for it. (Unfort. I think it's pretty safe to assume that the $$ is to silence the fundamentalists not the feminists who the gov probably don't care about anywayz) I guess it's one of those weird things that 'left' politics and 'conservative' politics appear to agree on- the exploitation of women. (Alternatively a similiarly weird connection is evident with the radical feminist/fundamentalist christian alliance.)
Anyway, I don't really have a point here...but umm right on! And it's refreshing to come across a blogger with such a keen analytical eye. nice.

I don't think that liberals control the porn business (do liberals still even exist?), and a lot of hard-left types tend to be anti-porn. But the Christian Right sure wants to pin it as an extention of Hippie Amorality, when it was really the deregulation of culture in the 80s under Reagan that helped porn boom.

Anti-porn in Japan is generally only based on Feminism, seeing that the sex business was totally legal in pre-war Japan. I fear that what the traditionalist, conservative Japanese like about the sex industry is the exploitation/subordination that the other side hates.