Like Pocari Sweat and Pocky, the Japanese are in love with words that sound like English, but isn’t. In this case, it’s Please Muscat, a variety show that once again proves that there isn’t much you can do to shock a culture that brought us animated tentacle sex and used panty vending machines.

See, while America as a nation is about as comfortable about sex as a Wall Street CEO at a congressional hearing, the Japanese have AV idols like Maria Ozawa, Sora Aoi and Asami Yumo on a national TV program singing pop tunes and doing comedy skits. All of it, so far as I can tell, with their clothes on.

You want to talk about porn going mainstream? There you go.

Considering that we live in a county where religious nutjobs are so obsessed with sex that they’ll make claims like anal sex maintains virginity, the acceptance of X-rated entertainment in Japan — even with its own regimentation and societal hang ups — is refreshing.

JAV stars Maria Ozawa and Sora Aoi host Osaka TV Variety show

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