The latest of the manga-style health and sex guides now popular in Japanese book-stores includes a guide to being an “otoko no ko,” with an emphasis on healthy sex.
The recent “otoko no ko” boom appears to be in full swing, creating a demand for explanatory literature as well as pornography.
For those unaware of the background behind the practice, the 女装少年 / josou shonen (“crossdressing boy”) archetype has a long history both in manga/anime and in traditional Japanese culture.
In the last 2 years this archetype has started to enjoy a boom in popularity, becoming known as 男の娘 / otoko no ko (a pun based on substituting the character for “girl” with the character for “child” in the word 男の子 / otoko no ko, “boy”). The phrase and practice is mostly bound up in the “moe boom” and the “shota” genre, with most examples being 2D works.
Being a hard to translate piece of Japanese wordplay referring to a comparatively obscure Japanese subculture, it is no surprise to learn that the term has virtually no traction in English – generally an “otoko no ko” would be referred to as a “trap” in English, although this translation probably differs somewhat in nuance.
As well as comics, there is also a significant subculture of (actual) effete young men interested in crossdressing and adopting a femininised masculinity – some evidently proving quite successful at passing themselves off as women.
The practice is generally considered quite distinct from similar fetishes, sexual orientations or gender identities, and has no clear analogue (yet) overseas – practitioners (despite the broken English seen in the book) should not be considered transsexuals in the western sense, and there appears to be very little overlap between “otoko no ko” and Japan’s well established “new-half” subculture, and certainly no surgery.
The book featured here is 「もっと知りたい！オトコの娘の保健体育」 / “Motto Shiritai! Otoko no Ko no Hoken Taiiku” – “I want to know more! Health and physical education for otoko no ko.”
Detailed guides to all manner of sex (mostly with men, such as giving good fellatio or receiving anal sex pleasurably) are included, and less intimate matters such as proper application of makeup also feature:
The tome is on sale in Akiba bookshops, as well as on Amazon.
See also the previously featured guides to female onanism and male anal onanism for similarly essential reading.
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This look cute in pictures, but look real bad in the real live. My fucking 5 friends are gays now.(not my friends now at all). I thought that to have friend gay in normal at all. All people are the same. But in one day the to guys ask me to suck theirs things. To tell the real I didn't real know that is true or not about theirs orientation. We was good friends about 1 year. After this favour I a little beat them.(that was self-defense, it is good that I am older). Now I hate gays at all. If you a gay it is not means that you friend must became a gay! Fucking real live, it was a real shock for me, we was good friends about 1 year. For example to watch something like Maria Holic is nice for me, but as I already said I think: If you a gay it is not means that you friend must became a gay! And I now think that this is not normal at all. If you a guy I think to meet with guy(like with girl) this is not normal. People want to escape from reality with this like relationships. 19 yo-kun and I believe that I meet my princess someday! Please, don't escape from the reality and if you said like "it is my choice to be a gay"- this is not apology at all, i think!
It's not wrong to be gay and it's not wrong to suck a wang. In fact, being bi is the only fun way in life as you have double the chance of someone playing with your own junk if you're open to guys and girls. It's a fact.
Crazy story, man.
A gay trap doesn't count, only a non-gay trap is fun :)
A trap is only good when it is hetero - no exceptions :)
>A trap is only good when it is hetero - no exceptions :)
? Why that ?
Personally I love both (hetero and gay traps), but gay traps add a bit more of 'drama' in the whole thing so I guess I tend to prefer gay traps...
I have a raging boner right now. A book on banging traps! 2010 keeps getting better and better for me. Hopefully I'll find a trap girlfriend by the end of this year.
Ah, this article put a giant smile on my face. Traps rising in popularity makes me one happy fujoshi. Submit to the delicious trap yaoi, you know you want to boys~ >:3 Now if you'll excuse me... =////= *scrolls back up*
if this was a 2D world i could approve
fucking delicious, i need this book now.
Japan seems to have an unlimited number of sub-cultures. Every time I think that they've reached the outer limits of weirdness, they surprise me.
This is very disturbing....
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I wanna try it!
Damn ! I triggered a TRAP card.
If you enjoy it why the heck should you fell guilty?
what about women who like trap's? also if i did see right there is atleast one trap x woman action going on on those pages.
also think about it.. woman x trap mostlikely would be alot hotter than woman x woman with strapon D; if someone would make video from that. he would be rich.
that could be new meme on pron industry.
Wow, there are already a BOAT load of vids on that. Traps and hot chicks. Hot chicks and hot chicks. Hot chicks and traps and doods.
It's only gay if the fapping is done to a boy who is manly or masculine.
It's not gay, it's bi, since exclusively-heterosexual men won't touch this with a ten-foot pole.
I must purchase this book for I've been fallen into far to many "traps" lately.....its getting sort of ridiculous now.
Gosh I love shota traps. I am now going to watch picoxchico.
This book will be a best-seller in monasteries & prisons everywhere won't it?
I guess penis-fencing will become the preferred martial art after this.
I also guess the clean & jerk (off) will become the most popular weightlifting move.
Sugar & spice & everything nice; that's what little girls are made of. Sticks & snails & puppy dog tails; that's what little boys are made of. Just not in Japan!
No traps having sex with girls?
That's my fetish. ): I'm a girl who loves traps and wants to find a straight one.
mmm me like this and im a guy lol
I'm not into traps at all, unless it's admiring their feminine traits, or the occasional "yuri" action found in them.
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full of traps :D
imagine after reading the book and you suddenly bump to a person who also read the book. what do you thinkg will happen next? the funny part is their both trap themselves XD
I just don't get this trap stuff...
Vat da fukk?!
Well, I may have just been mentally scarred
The only thing I know is I no longer go trapping, it's no longer a trap when I willfully seek the illusive "otoko no ko" out in the vast reaches of the internet.
Finally, something to read than my textbooks.
I love that one with the pigtails, (S)He's so hot :D and no I'm not gay.
Euh, yeah,....traps,....we kill those where I live....
Good for you, we rape those where I live
Guys, do not worry liking traps ^__^
I'm the MOST screwed mind here anyway...
I only want a trap brother so I could dress up and couple him with some hot guy(s)...^__^u
Fujoshi logic is always the scariest...Though I still enjoy it XD
The book looks interesting btw, though I would rather like to lay hands on the WAal! magazine issues ^__^
The mouth full of splooge shot, hawt!
I'd still hit it :P
Do not fear it! Embrace it!
...I have! ~_^
I might consider buying...
I want to date a trap...
Anyone know how to find this on net ? (i mean download of this guide :D i would like to take a look at it xD )
hmmm... wat the?... yoooooooooooooo!
And so the Age of Imouto has fallen and the Age of Traps has dawned...
This is a dark future for me...
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Hmm...Traplicious! +10 points!
i want this
...Am I the only one who thought "Hideyoshi" for the non-twintails trap?
Hideyoshi is the only trap I accept
What about Watarase?
If there's an English translation; would definitely buy it :D
As a reply to my post, I can say one thing. As i understand traps in japan is in hot point relationships between girl and guy, where guy dress and play as girl, or girl dress and play like a boy.(I don't consider show aspect). In a sex live playing like that role playing games is normal at all.(But I'm more support idea that man should be dominant or I should control my girl domination).
And a little addition to the story: My last friends started like boys that like dress like girls and at the end them became gays. Now our town anime club is not anime club at all - it is club where gays meets to play with others. As a conclusion I can say that people should be more cautious with dressing and some books. First you reading, then you watching and then you acting. I am happy, that sad story not too sad for me and I am not gay after all.
Replying is not good work for me. I decided to register.
then if you are gay and watch straight porn you become straight? dont you think your friend was gay from the start?
Cool story, bro'.