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This
story is intended for adults only. It contains depictions of forced
nudity,
spanking, and sexual activity of preteen and young teen children for
the
purpose of punishment. None of the behaviors in this story should be
attempted
in real life, as that would be harmful and/or illegal. If you are not
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1. General Information about Japanese Photo Models
This is a report of true stories, most of them from Japan, that were
found on the web in years past. Some of the more interesting true
stories are of Japanese photo models in the period from 1969 through
1999. To understand what was happening in Japan at the time, it is
helpful to review some history.
In traditional Japan, through
the year 1945, nudity was no big deal. Most homes did not have bathtubs
or showers. People bathed at the local sento where everybody, male and
female, bathed together. People growing up in traditional Japan had no
qualms about nudity. Japan was under American occupation from late 1945
to 1952. Japan was forced to westernize; sentos were required by
American-imposed law to segregate by sex. After the end of the
occupation, Japan continued to be influenced by other countries, and
continued to westernize. People growing up in westernized Japan
developed attitudes about nudity that were the same as those of
Americans.
In 1969 the book Twelve Year Old Myth was
published, and become a phenomenal success. Photographer Kazuo Kenmochi
photographed 12-year old Tae Umehara in the nude for Twelve Year Old Myth.
There is no indication of forced nudity in this book; the model was
from an artistic family and apparently was comfortable with posing
nude. However, Tae Umahara's nudes were so popular that they sparked a
fad for more nude photo books and magazines with teenage and pre-teen
girls for models. This fad lasted until 1999, when a law was passed to
prohibit nude photography of minors in Japan.
Girls
appearing in these nude photo books were usually about ten to sixteen
years old. They spent their formative years in westernized Japan, and
were similar to American girls in how they felt about nudity. Their
parents, however, often grew up in traditional Japan, and did not see
any shame in nudity. Very often a girl would be embarrassed to appear
nude, but her parents felt that forcing her to pose naked was just as
reasonable as forcing her to do her homework or help wash the dishes.
Little girls shouldn't be so modest was the attitude of many parents.
If the girl's mother, growing up in more traditional Japan was not
modest at that age, why should the daughter be modest? Of course there
were some models who were exhibitionists, who enjoyed modelling and
continued after they became adults, but by no means did all girls like
modelling.
The photographer Sumiko Kiyooka photographed
young nude girls in Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, North America, and
South America. Sumiko wrote that adolescent Japanese girls were usually
shy, but that there was never a problem with shyness of the
non-Japanese models. Sumiko thought that Japanese girls were more
easily embarrassed than other girls. I think that actually the problem
was that Japanese parents were less inhibited about nudity than parents
in other countries. Japanese parents were more likely to coerce their
shy daughters to pose nude.
2. The Photographer Sumiko Kiyooka
Sumiko Kiyooka was one of the prominent Japanese photographers of the
late 20th century. She published two photographic magazines, White Rose Garden and Petit Tomato,
as well as many books. She is different from most other photographers
because in addition to publishing photographs in her books and
magazines, she wrote about how the photos were taken. She described the
problems involved in photographing nude girls.
When she met
with a potential model and her parents, Sumiko would emphasize that the
model had to be completely nude. Often the girl would agree, but only
because she was intimidated by her parents. Other photographers advised
Sumiko that she could avoid a lot of trouble and expense if she would
ask the potential model to get naked during the interview. Sumiko did
not want to do that because she wrote that it was exciting to capture
the shyness and hesitation of a girl who had never before been naked in
front of other people. When the actual photo session began (usually
outdoors), the girl sometimes became too embarrassed to go through with
it. Sometimes the embarrassment was so bad that the model would cry.
Parents would try to threaten or bribe the girl, but if she was really
unhappy about posing nude, her unhappiness would be apparent in the
photographs and they would not be suitable for publication. In these
cases, Sumiko had to abort the photo session. One model, whose mother
was a single parent, was uncomfortable because her mother would flirt
with Sumiko's assistants during the photo session. It was as if the
mother was using her daughter's nudity to attract attention from men.
Another problem was that it was hard to find private outdoor locations
given the popularity of hiking in Japan. Sumiko would take the model,
her parents, siblings, and a photo crew to a remote place in the
mountains. The photo session began, and a group of hikers would
sometimes happen to come by and stop to gawk at the girl. Sumiko wrote
that she often took several models at once to the shooting site. This
was not only efficient, but Sumiko thought it helped with shy models
because if they were friends they would encourage each other, and if
rivals would challenge each other.
I imagine it happened like
this: Three or four girls would be taken to a remote natural area. The
girls were accompanied by Sumiko (a woman), her assistants (men), and
the girls' families. Models had to strip completely naked in the
presence of everybody, including their brothers and the brothers of the
other models. Although Sumiko tried to pick private photo sites, models
were aware that there was a chance that a troop of boy scouts might
come hiking through. If the session was successful, the nude photos
would be published inWhite Rose Garden or Petit Tomato
and available to all of the model's classmates. For a shy girl, only
doing this because her parents coerced her, it could be stressful. I
imagine that some girls felt the same as some of the boys in the 1950s
swim meets in America.
If the model had sisters, the sisters
might pose together. The Japanese photographers were careful to
photograph only innocent nudity, avoiding any sexual activity or
suggestive poses. Therefore, girls and boys were never photographed
together. Brothers of the models came along to watch the naked girls,
but the boys were not photographed. Sumiko attempted to have a
pictorial featuring a boy a couple of times in her White Rose Garden magazine, but nobody wanted to see nude boys, and she could not make any money by photographing them.
3. The Model Shiori Suwano
Most models, especially shy models, did not write about their modelling
experiences. Shiori Suwano, one of the most popular of all models, is
one of the few whe did write about it. She had been in theater since
her early childhood. She was also something of a tomboy in her
elementary school years, often joining in boys' games at recess. Little
did she know that those boys would later be able to enjoy viewing a
book of her nude photographs.
Shiori was recruited for the
photo shoot, and her parents agreed that she would be a nude model. As
a minor, Shiori had to obey her parents. It was then that she adopted
the stage name Shiori Suwano. Years Later she said , "It was a job I
did without knowing anything..." Twelve-year old Shiori went with
photographer Teruo Maeba to Saipan (a United States Territory) in 1984
for the photo shoot. At an outdoor location with little to no privacy,
she was required to strip totally naked. She was photographed in poses
that, although innocent and artistic, exposed everything. The
photographs were published in the book You Sparkle which was very popular in Japan.
She later admitted that she was embarrassed and regretted posing nude.
She said that if she had not posed nude that one time, she would not
have been able to break into acting. Although she was famous as a nude
photo model, Shiori refused to be photographed nude again, and refused
to appear in a nude scene as an actress. She later said that she felt
embarrassed about the nude photo shoot and that she regretted doing it.
A reviewer of the book You Sparkle was amazed that even
though Shiori was a very cute girl, she had to show her genitals to get
her start in the entertainment industry. There were probably thousands
of Japanese families in the 1969 - 1999 era who hoped that nude
modelling would enble their daughters to make it big in show business,
or to at least earn some extra cash for the family. We will never know
how many girls found themselves in situations like Shiori.
4. Hidden Camera Television Show
Girls appeared nude on television and movies in both Japan and Europe
in the late twentieth century. One example is the Japanese "Candid
Camera" type television show, Hidden Camera. On an
episode of this show, some elementary school age girls were given swim
suits, and after changing into them jumped into the pool. Their swim
suits dissolved in the water, leaving the girls stark naked to the
amusement of the audience and the chagrin of the girls. The parents of
the girls gave permission for the television station to broadcast the
prank nationwide. Whether or not the girls were willing to give
permission was not disclosed; it was not considered important.
5. Mario und der Zauberer
The German movie Mario und der Zauberer (1994) is similar to the Krempoli television show described in Editor N's post of December 2018 in the first chapter of Found on the Web.
The script called for eleven year old (another source says she was ten)
German actress Nina Schweser to fight with some boys on the beach, and
the boys strip her naked. In the book on which the movie is based the
girl was eight years old, but apparently the director thought a cute
girl a few years older would be a bigger hit, especially with boys of
that age. A video was made of the scene as it was being filmed. In the
video we see three boys about the same age as Nina strip her naked as
she fights with them. We can also see in the video many other boys and
men that were not in the scene standing off-camera and watching. No
doubt Nina's male costars all wanted to see her stripped and get their
own photographs of her.
After several takes of the scene
were filmed, the director decided it was too violent. It was changed to
have the boys merely throw sand at Nina. Then she took off her swimsuit
and walked into the sea to rinse the sand from her body. She walked
naked to a crowd of people on the beach, and was filmed full frontal
with all exposed. It is likely that this scene also required several
takes before Nina was able to control her embarrassment enough to do it
right. Like the Krempoli show, there is a difference between
her body language and what is in the story. Nina is blushing and moving
stiffly in the nude scene, but according to the story her character has
no qualms about nudity and wonders why people are staring at her.
Later in the movie there is another nude scene, much shorter and much
less revealing, when Nina takes a bath and the actor playing her
brother walks in. She tells him to get out and he asks "Why so modest
now, you let the whole world see you naked before?". That's a good
question. In the original script that Nina saw before her parents
signed the contract (I assume as a minor Nina could not sign a legal
contract herself), she fought against being stripped. Although she was
scripted to lose the fight and be naked, it seems obvious that she
would still try to protect her modesty by covering her privates with
her hands and running off the beach.
Instead, the director
changed the scene so she took off the swim suit herself, which was not
necessary to rinse the sand, and casually strolled onto the beach while
the camera filmed her full frontal. Nina was probably surprised by the
change, which may have contributed to her embarrassment. Did the
director really decide at the last minute to make the change, or was it
all planned? Perhaps a less explicit nude scene was in the script to
encourge the parents to sign the contract, but there was also some fine
print in the contract that allowed the director to make changes. The
director could then wait until it was too late for Nina to back out of
the deal before maaking the change.
Editor N wrote in his report of Krempoli that
German friends of his source agreed that while Germany isn't as prudish
as the US, kids at that sensitive age wouldn't run around naked in
front of clothed peers of the opposite sex. I have not found anything
stating how Nina felt about the scene, but her red face and
tight-lipped forced smile, along with her unnatural walk show that she
was embarrassed. It would not be the only time a child actress was
coerced into a nude scene and embarrassed. Actresses Brooke Shields
(American) and Eva Ionosco (Italian) both went to court to sue over
their forced nudity as children.
6. More European Movies
Paskutine Atostogu Diena (English title: The Girl and the Echo)
is a 1964 Soviet movie that also features an eleven-year old actress
required by the script to run around naked in the presence of clothed
boys. The film lasts 67 minutes, and the actress Lina Braknyte is naked
for a full eight minutes. She shows no obvious embarrassment in the
movie, and afterward she said she was proud of herself until after the
premiere, when a girl of her age said to her, "How much have you been
paid to make you play naked? I would not have agreed for anything at
all." Lina said that after the movie was released, "I was teased at
school. In the first days I had to sit in the toilet at every break .
Only after two weeks everything was somehow calmed down ... " Remember
that in order to film eight minutes of the nude scenes, Lina may have
been required to be naked for several hours. The filming crew, the male
costars, and (unless the director closed the set) anybody else who
wnted to watch could see it all. The Girl and the Echo is a
sad story of a boy who meets a girl while she is skinny dipping, they
become friends, then he betrays her friendship when he refuses to
defend her from bullies that pick on her.
The movie was
popular with boys because of the CMNF scenes, and it was remade for
television in Hungary in 1973 under the title A Viszhang Titka. The total time of the movie was cut in half, but only a minute of the nude scenes was deleted. Twenty percent of A Viszhang Titka consists
of CMNF scenes. Rita Orosz (age 11), the star of the movie, appears to
be comfortable with her nudity, but I wonder if the girls watching home
experienced any vicarious discomfort in viewing a movie that was
one-fifth CMNF. At least it would not have been as bad as having to sit
through the 1976 Hungarian movie Árvácska. The star of that
movie, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi (age 8) was nude for the first half-hour of the
movie. Everybody else was fully clothed except for one girl who was
naked for only a short time.
7. Japanese Public Baths
In twentieth century Japan modesty was not important for minors. The
previous incidents of violated modesty in Japan in this post concern
girls because money could be made by exploiting female nudity. In
public baths, both boys and girls could be humiliated.
P.J. O'Rourke wrote in his book Holidays in Heck of
his visit to a Japanese public bath (sento). P.J. and his son were told
that they were not required to be naked in the bath. If they were
uncomfortable to be naked in a public place, they could wear swim
trunks. His son chose to wear trunks, but P.J. went naked since it was
a bath for men only. After entering the bath, P.J. was shocked to
discover that the "men only" rule applied only to customers. Employees
of either sex could go anywhere in the bath, and female janitors were
working in the men's bath when P.J. was there.
Another
exception to the rule, although not mentioned by O'Rourke, is that a
parent can take a child of either sex into the bath. About ten years
ago I read a controversy on a Japanese discussion board about this. A
mother was taking her son with her to the women's bath. This would be
normal if the son was very young; not older than about eight or nine.
In this case the boy appeared to be around twelve, and seemed to enjoy
checking out the naked girls. They did not say if the boy wore trunks,
but it would have made sense even if the boy was not modest. Trunks
would make it easier for his mother to claim he was prepubescent by
hiding his state of development. Also, if he wore a cup under the
trunks, it would prevent an erection from showing. Another true account
of an adolescent boy in the womens bath was written on another site by
a man who said that his mother took him to the women's bath through the
time he was in the sixth grade (age 11-12). He wrote that he found it
embarrassing, and kept a towel wrapped around himself whenever he was
out of the water. There are also accounts told by men of adolescent
girls accompanied by their fathers in the men's bath.
The
following is the story from a Japanese web site is translated into
English: " I remember something like that. During the school trip, we
stayed in a hotel room where for some reason we were the only ones in a
corner room with futons (maybe because we were a group of
troublemakers?), and when we went out onto the balcony, we could get a
great view of the girls' open-air bath. Also, one of those doctor-like
guys you often see in class had binoculars for some reason. Yeah, I saw
it... about half of the girls, including my wife. Later, when I told my
wife about this, she slapped me."
8. Stories of a Japanese Artist
An artist who contributes to a Japanese art sharing site has some
interesting stories that accompany some of his drawings. One work was
two drawings of a teenage girl, one in a fancy costume and the other
nude and dripping wet. The story posted with the drawing said it was
based on an actual event that happened on the Japanese island of
Hokkaido about the beginning of this century. As part of the annual
high school festival, the girls in one class decided they would make
fancy costumes of paper and parade through town wearing them. Even
their underwear was paper. A sudden rain storm dissolved the costumes,
and the parade returned to the school with the girls naked.
Another one of his early drawings illustrated a true event at a college
school festival. A college girl was posing nude wearing only a pair of
wings to look like a fairy. An interesting, but I believe fictional
story of a school festival in which girls portrayed nude statues was
also posted on the same site. It is told from the point of view of an
embarrassed girl who was required to pose as a nude statue because she
was chosen to do it by the festival committee. We do not know if the
model for the actual college festival was subject to coercive peer
pressure.
Another drawing by this artist shows an embarrassed
nude woman near a platform in a public place. Here is a translation of
the story that goes with it: The model was so upset that she was unable
to climb onto the model stand. She had spotted a senior from [her] high
school at the drawing venue. The art world is small, and it is not
uncommon for a model and artist to be in the art club of the same high
school. What's more, this time it was a clash with a senior from the
art club who she had a crush on. A different model was quickly
arranged. Since clashes with acquaintances or close relatives should be
prevented in advance, model agencies make arrangements in advance (at
art universities, for example, from the student list), but this can
happen at drawing events open to the public.
9. School in Japan
Japanese schools have some customs that seem strange to us westerners.
When elementary school children in Japan have swim class, it is normal
for boys and girls to change into swimwear together in the classroom.
They are given towels or robes so they can change modestly, without
exposing their bodies. In theory they can avoid exposing their bodies,
but changing this way cretes an ideal situation for voyeurism,
exhibitionism, and bullying. Strange as it may seem, boys and girls
change together in the classroom through fourth grade (age 9-10). This
is an allegedly true story of a girl who did not use her towel, and for
some reason the teacher allowed her to get away with it. The
translation is: "From kindergarten through 4th grade there was a girl
in my class who got completely naked when changing clothes. She was
flirting naked all of the time, and the boys were staring at her." Here
is another story of changing in the classroom, told by a girl: "When I
was in the lower grades of elementary school, I was changing in the
classroom for swimming lessons (boys and girls together). I was
changing with a wrap towel around me, but I forgot to button the side
of the towel, so I was completely exposed from the side and a boy was
staring at me (lol) This is my experience."
Another man wrote
on a Japanese site: "When I was in the first grade of elementary
school, I used to prank cute girls in the 6th grade by pulling down
their skirts and underpants at the same time." His use of the plural
indicates that he did it more than once. If it was an American school,
he probably would have been severly punished, perhaps even expelled
after the first time. A woman wrote on the same site: "When I was
young, between 5 and 6 years old, I fell down during the relay race at
the sports festival. I pulled down the shorts and panty of the girl in
front of me."
Medical exams are held annually in Japanese
schools. Boys and girls are examined separately and in underwear. There
are many fictional stories on the web of school children examined
together and nude. A few claim to be real, but I think all of the nude
school physical exam stories are fantasy. There were stories of
employment physicals that I believe were true. In the 1950s and 1960s
it was standard for all new hires in Japan, even for office jobs that
were not physically demanding, to take pre-employment physicals. It was
reported that executives from the hiring companies would witness
physicals for female employees. Usually they were senior executives,
but sometimes junior executives were rewarded for good work by also
being allowed to watch the exams. The female employees were examined
completely naked.