Much of the time, I bemoan my foreign-ness here and how it can be problematic.
Other days, it's cause to rejoice. For example, just now one of the many door-to-door salesmen came a-ringin' at my door. I opened the door and he got one look at me and gave up his entire carefully-rehearsed schpiel. I came out of the affair unscathed with only a single pamphlet.
Last night I had a conversation revolving around the plethora of so-called "soap land" massage parlors in Japan. As far as I can tell (I'm not very well versed on the subject), they're basically legalized brothels. You go ostensibly for a body massage, and you end up with a penis massage. They have them at home too, but not as blatant as far as I know.
Anyway, I was asked why I never tried one. I replied that I have a girlfriend and that would be cheating. Not so, I was told. The reason given was that massage-pooches and others in the business of pleasuring for money are "not normal people" and are a "business." That being said, even having sex with a straight-out prostitute constitutes little more than a business transaction. If you have sex with a "normal person" (I'm still not really sure what that entails) other than your girlfriend/boyfriend, that's cheating. As lonng as you've paid for it, it's not.
What? I can't possibly believe that this is an opinion that reaches beyond the one person I talked to. If it does, then no wonder this country is so bizarre. I must continue researching.