Shooter452
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- 5 Jan 2005
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During my time on Okinawa, I was a regular patron of the bath houses.
Yes, I know...eveyone regarded the bath houses as "bordello-lite," and the female bath attendants did enhance their income by offering to the US customers a sexual service that they could just as well perform themselves. I did not partake of that service myself because it was the relaxation of the bath and massage that I enjoyed. The massage was not really all that fantastic--unless you wanted that "special massage" I discussed earlier, the remainder seemed to be hastily delivered and with none of the reknown expertise attributed to bath attendants in the books and movies.
But the bath...I have never felt so clean in all of my life as I did from the Okinawa baths. And I miss being scrubbed scupulously clean, rinsed thoroughly, and then boiled like a lobster in steaming water.
Has anyone else ever had that experience? Do you miss it too?
PS: I still gave the bath attendants the extra coin as a "tip" since I did not want their income to suffer because of my Puritan attitudes. It was only an additional five or ten bucks (in yen, of course). N(o)B(ig)D(eal).
Yes, I know...eveyone regarded the bath houses as "bordello-lite," and the female bath attendants did enhance their income by offering to the US customers a sexual service that they could just as well perform themselves. I did not partake of that service myself because it was the relaxation of the bath and massage that I enjoyed. The massage was not really all that fantastic--unless you wanted that "special massage" I discussed earlier, the remainder seemed to be hastily delivered and with none of the reknown expertise attributed to bath attendants in the books and movies.
But the bath...I have never felt so clean in all of my life as I did from the Okinawa baths. And I miss being scrubbed scupulously clean, rinsed thoroughly, and then boiled like a lobster in steaming water.
Has anyone else ever had that experience? Do you miss it too?
PS: I still gave the bath attendants the extra coin as a "tip" since I did not want their income to suffer because of my Puritan attitudes. It was only an additional five or ten bucks (in yen, of course). N(o)B(ig)D(eal).