December 15, 2004

Japanese men can now rest in the lap of a sexy...foam pillow. I'm not sure what to make out of this, but it's a sure nod to the creative spirit of the Japanese.
posted by Warrior 19 years ago
  • Is it wrong for me to want one of those?
  • No, Cropshy. Not at all. Perfectly healthy. Just keep it well-hidden, and let us never mention this again.
  • That just doesn't look comfortable. Is it washable if you drool all over it in your sleep? Just askin'.
  • This part is a bit disturbing: "At stores, lap pillows gather crowds where people poke and pry at the foam legs." "poke" with what??? "pry" how? In "crowds"? somehow I think that getting a "Real Doll" (link not necessary, I'm sure you've all been there!) would require less explaining then this lap thingie.....
  • For those who can grok it, the interview with the makers of the 'hizamakura' is also interesting. They ask him "Hey, aren't those her panties?" and the reply is "Well, if you photograph it from a normal angle instead of like a peeping tom, you won't see the panties." Indeed!
  • hey fuyugare, mine pops up in japanese! no fair.
  • Hmmm... I ran fuyugare's link through Babel Fish and found this intriguing sentence, "This 'knee pillow', you just see, it throbs, but when it touches, it throbs more."
  • this, of course, follows on the heels of the boyfriend pillow.
  • Mildly odd, mildly amusing. Hm. Oh, though combine this with the scary cyber-hug thing from a while back, and you may have something worthy of nightmares. My dad tried to get me to make the boyfriend pillows. He thought they were adorable. He made a big show of acting like the girlfriend pillows were offensive, though. "What, like she's just an object? Hmph! Huff!" Uh-huh. Totally believing that. Not just a show of fake "feminism", Dad. Not at all.
  • I've seen this posted somewhere (maybe on the blue) a month or two back. They had it on the TV news last night and the female newsreader asked the sports dude -- the same one who got his eyebrows shaved off -- if he'd asked for one for Christmas. I've never seen a sports presenter fall over laughing hysterically before.
  • 'Throbs' is an interesting translation. What he was saying there was: "Just looking at the 'hizamakura' made me excited, but more exciting still was touching it."
  • I'm not much of a "lap" man, myself. Is this available in other styles? Because everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.
  • I think the company manufacturing them should make every hundredth pillow feature a pop-up penis that pokes the user in the head, just to freak him out.
  • Oh, and: MonkeyFilter: mildly odd, mildly amusing
  • i for one am glad it doesn't vibrate.
  • Bosom pillow, you were asking for, rocket88? Although I gotta say these look more like discard Madonna bras to me.
  • Monkey Filter: it throbs, but when it touches, it throbs more
  • The pillow of the millennium!
  • why the animal theme on the bosom pillows? especially the use of camel?!
  • If you were so inclined, you could fit one of those bosom pillows on top of the lap pillow and have darn near a whole woman. [I should probably get out more.] The bosom pillows are also a bit pointy, but preferable in, my opinion, to the downright scary Tit Pillow.
  • Prediction: Alnedra's link will increase the furry population of MoFi by at least a factor of five. Cropshy's may have put me off boobs for the next month.
  • Wasn't that a song from Mikado? "Tit pillow, tit pillow, tit pillow."
  • CROSPHY! OMG that's fucking hilarious! The guy in the pic almost looks like he's actually imagining himself in the bossom of a giantess. Right before she crushes his skull with her boobs. Coppermac, dude, that WRONG! lol...wrong!
  • So how many entry points does this lap pillow have? I'm, you know, just asking for a friend....
  • I always thought a boyfriend pillow was one of these, and even then I thought the name was a little creepy (though my battered, god-knows-how-old one sure is comforting). All these disembodied body parts are kind of horrifying.
  • I'm totally going replace my couch cushions with lap pillows.
  • babywannasofa, most people I've heard referring to those pillows you linked call them husband pillows. I haven't used one but I just think of it as a reading/watching tv pillow.
  • Dirty pillows. I wanna touch your dirty pillows.
  • for an extra 3000 yen, get your lap pillow equiped with real schoolgirl panties. crotch rot guaranteed!!
  • I tried the male version but it hurt my ear