I do not know what else to say about this.

[giving_ground]

Hi Internet. Today I read a paper titled Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism. It provided me with many... gems

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[lechaco]

That sounds really interesting! I'll try to find them in the library. XD

[giving_ground]

These are books the article talks about. I don't know if they're available in English, I haven't actually looked; I just read the summaries, basically. That article has fairly large extracts from both. (It's one chapter of a book, the name of which escapes me. I'm kind of half asleep. I don't know what I'm talking about. Help.)

[saintsavin]

** but presumably not off amazon.

Reader, I LOLed XD.

Oh, Japan. LUBE USE IT.

[giving_ground]

*bows*

YES, THAT. OH GOD. *whimper*

[annotated_em]

You don't know what it tells you to do with an acolyte who is "very beautiful but insensitive to love." Anyway, I'd have to cut this entry if I included that bit, since it's completely not safe for work.

I wish to know. I wish to know desperately.

[branchandroot]

You, um, actually might not. Depending. There are a whole lot of non-con aspects to this book if it's the one I've read excerpts from.

[annotated_em]

...oh. *makes a face* Actually, that doesn't surprise me. Perhaps I'm better off not knowing, given the "tearing" referenced above. o_o;

[giving_ground]

Yeah, seriously. I actually do mean it, with the 'you do not want to know' bits.

[branchandroot]

Yeah, I've read parts of that one. It's really kind of disturbing. Extremely similar to the whole Roman set-up, really, in that "manly men stick it in" sort of way.

[giving_ground]

Yeah, pretty much. It did have that kind of feel to it. But with, uh, more poetry...

[crystalusagi]

XDDDD I love you.

[giving_ground]

♥?