Man arrested for buying junior high school girl's panties

In the shadow of the "Driver fined for smoking in lorry" thread, we bring you ...

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Man arrested for buying junior high schoolgirl's panties

ISHIOKA, Ibaraki -- A man has earned the dubious honor of being the first person arrested for breaking an Ibaraki Prefectural Government ordinance outlawing minors from selling their underpants, police said.

Kenji Tomita, 46, a part-time worker from Ishioka, has been sent to the Ashikaga Local Public Prosecutors Office for breaking the Ibaraki Prefectural Government's ordinance aimed at providing a wholesome upbringing for youth.

Tomita admits to the allegations.

Tomita was the first person to be arrested under a clause of the ordinance that outlaws the practice of minors under 18 from removing their underwear and selling it.

Police said Tomita paid 10,000 yen in cash to a 14-year-old junior high schoolgirl he met through a mobile phone matchmaking site in exchange for her giving him two pairs of her panties at a hotel in southern Ibaraki Prefecture.

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This is from The Mainichi Daily News, a major Japanese paper. See http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071010p2a00m0na033000c.html

10,000 yen is about US $85.

Well, right or wrong? Free trade and market economics, or pedophilic exploitation?
Harmless wanker, or dangerous predator?
Good bargain, or outrageously overpriced?

Three random thoughts:

1. If jailbait panties are banned, only criminals will have jailbait panties.

2. Why isn't the girl in trouble also? (Or if she is, why doesn't the article mention it?)

3. Only in Japan.

SteveDallas;393707 wrote:

3. Only in Japan.

Yeah,I'll believe almost anything of the Japanese sex-wise. Remember that series of photographs for the weird role-playing sex hotel?

They have a law against this in Japan, now?

My, how times have changed.

I guess the legendary vending machine had run out.

See http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/ for this and more weird vending machines.

Which is better? Personal, organic, free-range panties? or impersonal, mechanized, battery-farmed panties?

And how differently do you react if we replace "panties" with "underpants" in all of these posts?

My ears are bleeding.

ZenGum;393906 wrote:

And how differently do you react if we replace "panties" with "underpants" in all of these posts?

It would, perhaps, be even worse if you were talking about moist panties.

SteveDallas;393919 wrote:

It would, perhaps, be even worse if you were talking about moist panties.

That's weird.
I have an old friend who had a cringe/shudder reaction to the word "moist". I thought she was weird. I still do.
Nice though.
How many other people here are freaked out by "moist"?

I like moist panties. A sign of things to come ... so to speak.

I don't have a problem with the word "moist." But I have known several people who hated that word. They were all female.

I've known several females as well who couldn't stand the word "moist" as well. I've no problem with it personally.

Razzmatazz13;394063 wrote:

I've known several females as well who couldn't stand the word "moist" as well. I've no problem with it personally.

I am so glad you posted here Razzamatazz... because ...
Did you know that razzamatazz is a brand of stockings (at least in Australia)? I only know this because of their TV ads, I swear.

I got the name from my favorite crayola crayon color...

Clearly I should have gone for "RazzleDazzleRose"...less confusion that way.
http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronology.cfm

I love prussian blue! I think we talked about this somewhere else. I wonder if I could get UT to change my name to that. Or Aqua Blue. Hmm.

case;394092 wrote:

I love prussian blue! I think we talked about this somewhere else. I wonder if I could get UT to change my name to that. Or Aqua Blue. Hmm.

Are you referring to the color of your underpants?

Razzmatazz13;394079 wrote:

I got the name from my favorite crayola crayon color...

Clearly I should have gone for "RazzleDazzleRose"...less confusion that way.
http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronology.cfm

God no! That's a brand of ... well, you'd probably rather not know.
Just don't.

ZenGum;394096 wrote:

Are you referring to the color of your underpants?

Well, actually... :checking: ...not far off.

I worked with a woman who found the word "gusset" revolting. The funny thing was, she needed a pair of tights (pantyhose) for a specific outfit, and wanted them to be gusset-free. She came back from shopping quite worn out.

How i met your mother did an episode about that girl not liking the word moist. maybe that's what you're thinking about.

My husband and I say "moist" to bother each other.....

Moist!!

Uuugh.

A good friend of mine hates the word moist. I just thought she was a lone freak. What is with that?

Well it's not the first or last time I'm going to hear of that.......There is just something unexplainable and wrong about the word....it doesn't even have to be in a lewd context.......ooh *shiver* yucky.

Moist cake. Good.
Moist panties. Good.
Moist banana bread. Good.

It just sounds good to me.

What about "dewy" then.

Picture a big fat hairy guy sitting on a city bus in August. The bus has broken air conditioning.

Moist.

Yuck.

My wife hates the word "chunk" and even worse is "chunks."

If a food is described as having "chunks" in it, she won't touch it.

glatt;394158 wrote:

My wife hates the word "chunk" and even worse is "chunks."

If a food is described as having "chunks" in it, she won't touch it.

The Doctors wanted "chunks" during my husband's recent biopsy. They kept saying it over and over.

He asked them to quit using their fancy jargon and to give it to him straight.....:D

I'm really becoming not too fond of that one as well........

ZenGum;394096 wrote:

Are you referring to the color of your underpants?

Or perhaps the cute little teenybopper band?

Oh, do tell us, ZenG!

Then we may all shudder or guffaw, according to our several natures.

Words themselves don't cringify me. Misuse of words, well, that can provoke attacks of bewildering wrath. Fits of bewildering wrath being more entertaining than cringing.

But the color of Betadine scrub... I do not like that shade of dark red with a yellowish tone to it. That color is the color of nightmare...

I can't figure out why she did not get into trouble too.

You know you are old when you can hear the phrase "titular bishopric" without at the least having to stifle a snicker.

C'mon, fess up ... you chuckled, didn't you?

I like the word moist. I had never thought of anyone finding it unpleasant. I think that's kind of odd.

Welcome to my barrel of oddities Ali.......We aren't sure what happened to the monkeys...

Cicero;394148 wrote:

My husband and I say "moist" to bother each other.....

Moist!!

Uuugh.

What's wrong with it?

Welcome to the Cellar, R2D3. :D

How I met your mother?

SteveDallas;393707 wrote:

3. Only in Japan.

Not really. If I remember correctly, about 20+ years ago, there was a guy named "Uncle Eddie" Savidge living in Philadelphia. He would pay teenage boys for their underwear. If the underwear was soiled, bonus$$. When he was finally arrested, police found a very large collection of boxers/briefs stored in pizza boxes throughout his residence.

rigcranop;394465 wrote:

Not really. If I remember correctly, about 20+ years ago, there was a guy named "Uncle Eddie" Savidge living in Philadelphia. He would pay teenage boys for their underwear. If the underwear was soiled, bonus$$. When he was finally arrested, police found a very large collection of boxers/briefs stored in pizza boxes throughout his residence.

Finally, someone has found a use for old pizza boxes!
Guy is &%$#ing weird!

glatt;394157 wrote:

Picture a big fat hairy guy sitting on a city bus in August. The bus has broken air conditioning.

Moist.

Yuck.

I think this would be an adequate example!
:greenface

You know you are old when you can hear the phrase "titular bishopric" without at the least having to stifle a snicker.

C'mon, fess up ... you chuckled, didn't you?

I chuckled at your post...but I've come across (if you'll pardon the pun) that phrase a few two many times to still snicker at it :P Kind of comes with the territory (oops did it again) when you study any ecclesiastical history.

Y'know, a few years ago I was talking to a friend of mine who had moved into a new suburban community a while back. It turns out that one of her neighbors, a divorced mom living with her boyfriend, was hosting orgies and running a porn site from her house.

My friend mentioned that the woman was selling panties from her web site. Maybe it was because I was naive, or maybe because my mother's family was in the lingerie business, but it took me a short while to understand that the neighbor was selling used panties. I can sort of understand that women, by themselves, can smell nice. I even understand that, for example, Napolean was supposed to be attracted to an unwashed Josephine. Still, I don't personally get it. To me the whole idea smells fishy.:D

However, according to this article, women would be more logical buyers for used underwear than men.;)

Napoleon is known to have been susceptible to the smell of the unwashed Josephine. But he was an unusual male. Recent research has indicated that, while male rats are not appreciably affected by the smell of different female rats, female rats showed a preference for the smell of certain male rats. An experiment along the same lines was done with the clothes of human volunteers. It produced similar results to the ones found in rats. Smell was more important for partner selection in females than males. Interestingly, the clothes of women who were deemed most attractive by men were those that had been worn by women described as “shy and retiring”. The clothes worn by women known to the research workers as being “dominant and aggressive” were considered less desirable.

Update

And here we have yet another alternative use for the disabled toilets:

From http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20071022p2g00m0dm003000c.html

Panty sellers roll in the cash by rolling off their soiled skimpies in disabled toilets


"You get more money for panties the longer you've been wearing them and the dirtier they get. Depending on the circumstances, there are some guys who'll pay as much as 20,000 yen for a single pair of panties."
"Occasionally ... there are perverts who'll give you money if you spit, or piss, or shit for them," schoolgirl Maki tells Spa! "At those times, doing business in the toilet makes things so much easier."

Apparently the girls feel safer in the disabled toilets of subway stations because help is not too far away, if needed.

richlevy;394749 wrote:

Y'know, a few years ago I was talking to a friend of mine who had moved into a new suburban community a while back. It turns out that one of her neighbors, a divorced mom living with her boyfriend, was hosting orgies and running a porn site from her house.

My friend mentioned that the woman was selling panties from her web site. Maybe it was because I was naive, or maybe because my mother's family was in the lingerie business, but it took me a short while to understand that the neighbor was selling used panties. I can sort of understand that women, by themselves, can smell nice. I even understand that, for example, Napolean was supposed to be attracted to an unwashed Josephine. Still, I don't personally get it. To me the whole idea smells fishy.:D

However, according to this article, women would be more logical buyers for used underwear than men.;)

Smell can be an important regard in many manners.

Overall what I find weird is that there was a law already set in place before the guy got arrested.

?? wtf?

Unlike, say, arresting the fellow and then hastily scribbling some law in the comments section of his booking form?

I think the fact that men buying panties from schoolgirls is so prevalent that a law was required/enacted to deal with it, is perhaps what toranokaze means.

There are some stained and sweaty shoes for sale on eBay. I can only think they are fetish items. At the bottom they generally say, "These will be cleaned to eBay standards after purchase" which doesn't make sense when they are advertised as dirty...

They don't sell for much - perhaps British fetishists haven't caught on yet.

DanaC;398545 wrote:

I think the fact that men buying panties from schoolgirls is so prevalent that a law was required/enacted to deal with it, is perhaps what toranokaze means.

Bingo, sorry if I was unclear

And how is a girl supposed to make a living selling them, when some folks are giving them away?

from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/

26/2071178.htm

Aussies urged to post panties to Burma embassy
A campaign is underway to chastise Burma's military regime, not through dialogue or sanctions, but by flooding the country's foreign embassies with women's underwear, an activist said.

A pro-democracy group based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai is urging people all over the world to "post, deliver or fling" their undergarments to Burma's international embassies.

"The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious. They believe that contact with a woman's panties or sarong can rob them of their power," the Lanna Action for Burma group said on its website.

SNIP

Those behind the so-called "Panty Power" campaign hope that lingerie can succeed where international diplomacy has so far failed.

"We want to raise awareness first, and we want to target the Burmese government officials, letting them know we are against them abusing their power," said Tomoko, an activist with Lanna Action for Burma.

Tomoko, who goes by one name only, said she had heard that Burma's embassy in Canberra as well as others in Thailand and the United States have been targeted by the Panty Power campaign, which began last week.

"We are sending [the generals] panties as a symbol of putting their power down," she said.

In the latest development in the world of Japanese school-girl-underpants perversions, the Singapore Straights Times reports the following:

Underwear fetish gets out of hand for Japanese man

TOKYO - A JAPANESE man who privately enjoyed wearing girls' underwear was arrested after his excitement went too far and he decorated his neighbourhood with the undergarments, police said on Monday.

Kazuo Oshitani, a 48-year-old office clerk and father of three, allegedly wore girls' underwear and nylons and then scattered them across his block in western Osaka prefecture, a police spokesman said.

'I found it sexually arousing to imagine how shocked people would get when spotting the underwear,' he said, according to police.

He allegedly spread girls' underpants and nylons on bicycles, cars and even the front doors of his neighbours, police said.

Police, who had received about 170 complaints from local residents, raided his house and confiscated more than 200 pairs of underwear and a few sex toys, the spokesman said.

While his private activity appeared legal, he was arrested on Sunday - on charges of littering. -- AFP

I find underpants related crime mildly amusing .. does this make me a pervert? If you share this amusement, read on:

A Singapore national serviceman who sashayed into a lift early one morning wearing only a pink bikini has been handed a day's jail and a $US7,529 fine by a court in the city-state, a newspaper has reported.

Tan Wen Zhong, 21, admitted to five charges, including "outraging the modesty" of the woman who shared the lift with him and "fraudulent possession of women's underwear", Singapore's Straits Times reported.

The paper said a subsequent police search of his apartment turned up 46 pieces of women's underwear and bikinis as well as four obscene films.

Tan, who was completing Singapore's mandatory national service when he committed the offence in April, was also accused of grabbing a 23-year-old woman's buttocks a year ago and of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses two years ago.

In mitigation, Tan's lawyer said his client had been badly affected by his parents' divorce during his formative years.

"fraudulent possession of women's underwear"?
WTF? They actually have this law on the books?? I mean, yes Singapore is infamously strict, but this is bizarre.

"A beautiful sight
We're happy tonight
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear."

At least they could tell he had a tan zhong. Maybe he has a good tanning bed.

I'm curious as to the basis for the "fraudulent possession" charge. Had he not paid for them? I can see "improper" use, but "fraudulent" implies an intent to deceive... and it seems he was making no bones (sorry) about what he was doing. If there is indeed such a law on the books, that's just evidence of how often people are doing it.

Perhaps the underwear were not new when he, uh, acquired them.