TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keasler,Misty
AU  - Slemmons,Rod
AU  - Kirino,Natsuo
TI  - Love hotels: the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan 
SN  - 0811856410
AV  - TR620 .K43 2006
U1  - 779.092 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Chronicle Books
KW  - Keasler, Misty.
KW  - Photography of interiors
KW  - Japan
KW  - Sex-oriented businesses
KW  - Pictorial works
N2  - "Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate d cor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan."--Publisher description
ER  -