Japanese Sex Museums: Where Sanity Goes to Die

Here are some choice scenes from the city of Beppu’s hihōkan, which apparently closed (but you can still tour on YouTube for posterity’s sake). During its sexy heyday, visitors could behold see-through wombs, pinnipeds mid-coitus, and an animatronic display of Snow White being pleasured by all seven dwarves while the Evil Queen peeps voyeuristically and Prince Charming watches on in horror.

 

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Old Cartoons Depicting Women as Cuts of Meat

Mitch O’Connell digs into his old-timey ephemera cornucopia to assemble a gallery of women depicted as slabs of beef ready to be butchered.

The Most Sexist Images EVER!

Buford, Wyoming sold for $900,000

Last month, I posted that the town of Buford, Wyoming was up for auction. It sold yesterday for $900,000 to two men from Vietnam whose identities and rationale have not been revealed as of yet. “Buford, Wyo., population 1, sold for $900,000 to two Vietnamese businessmen“.

VIA: –BOING BOING

Extraordinary story of Appalachia’s ‘Blue Family’

In the Appalachian Mountains rests a medical oddity so unusual that it at first seems a massive hoax.

Dating back to the early 1800s, an isolated family in eastern Kentucky – who can trace their roots back to a French orphan – started producing children who were blue.

As a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding, members of the Fugate family were born with a rare condition that made them visibly discoloured.