Asahi Geinou and the Constitution of Sei-Fuuzoku

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  • 週刊誌『アサヒ芸能』と性風俗の構成
  • シュウカンシ アサヒ ゲイノウ ト セイフウゾク ノ コウセイ

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the word of sei-fuuzoku and a potentiality of it. In general, sei means "sex" or/and "sexuality", and fuuzoku almost signifies" manners" in English. And Only few attempts have so far been made at sei-huuzoku, though not only sei-fuuzoku is a familiar word in Japan but also its importance has ever been poin-ted out. How can we take up phenomena of Sei-fuzoku? As one way this article use a Japanese weekly magazine, "Asahi Geinou"".Asahi Geinou" which supposes middle-aged men who are able to be thought as a core of Japanese Seifuzoku as reading public, was started in 1956. The editing policy, 'as a popular journalizm we will dig in central into life and manners', was orientated under the effect of the Anti-Prostitution Law which was enacted in 1956. "Asahi Geinou" diged up and appealed widely to its reader varicolored events which were expected to be caused as a result of the Anti-Prostitoution Law, for example underground traffic in sex and consequential imbroglios. Furthermore "Asahi Geinou" were digging up new and aphrodisiac sex. Because reader desired informations --how can we get sex? can we get what kind of sex? -- after Anti-Prostitution Law. Therefore we can find marked figures of seifuuzoku and its transition in "Asahi Geinou", and that "AsahiG einou" is a medium which transforms a dimention of ordinary life to a sei-fuuzoku by focusing sexually on a side in our life. A close look at these processes will reveal that media play an important part in the constitution of seifuuzoku after Anti-Prostitution Law.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 21 191-205, 2000

    大阪大学人間科学部社会学・人間学・人類学研究室

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