What¡¯s wrong with sex?
Nothing; it¡¯s wonderful: ¡°The younger women melt men¡¯s hearts with rouge and powder and songs and smiles... Ah! ... a tryst in a boat on the waves equals a lifetime of delightful encounters.¡±
Thus the courtier-poet Oe Yukitoki (955-1010) celebrated the asobi (women of pleasure) of his day. Their boats plied the rivers of the port towns, and poets paid them homage.
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