A person who claims to be a serious researcher must have considerable courage to take on the story of the sexual culture of another people, because it is very easy to cross the line beyond which the description of traditions ends and savoring the “strawberry” begins. Especially if it concerns such people like the Japanese, whose sexual life in the perception of Europeans is covered in legends. Alexander Kulanov, a Japanese scholar and international journalist, had the courage and skill to talk in detail about everything related to sex and eroticism in Japanese culture - from ancient phallic cults to geishas, anime and a penchant for what Europeans consider perversions , and many Japanese are without any embarrassment a part of their everyday life. But they have little sex, which gave the author a reason to call Japan “the country of sexual bluff.” And you will find out why this happened by reading this book.