Subject: RE: ranma ML 1 hour matome okuri (Hentai?)
From: "James V. Nutley" <jnutley@lvnexus.net>
Date: 12/17/1996, 8:54 AM
To: "fanfic@fanfic.com" <fanfic@fanfic.com>


Sundogg wrote:
The Subjects are:
  Albert Lunde <Al  hentai/pervert
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I'm not sure what _I'd_ call a strange person I found in a bathtub/hot tub
in _my_ house (if I had a hot tub).

I would call them loudly..  people in hot tubs don't like to leave them..

on a non-spam note, you may have hit it right on the head: Hentai 
translates as a CONCEPT, that of adult heterosexuality taken to an 
inappropriate extreme. 

unfortunately, as in many cross-culture translations, there is no 
word-to-word translation

But, didn't it used to mean that?  Think back to the standards in the US of the
1950s (come ooonnn, some of you guy used to watch "Happy Days" or have
seen "American Graffiti", or "Grease"!!)

Imagine the stereotypical scene, two teens at a drive in, embracing, kissing so
hard that her lipstick is rubbing all over his penciled on stubble.

The young gentleman, in his faux James Dean outfit, has never gone this far before.  His heart is pounding in his ears.  Nevertheless, he dares to try for 
one step more, and slides his hand from her back ... to her side ...  to rest on
the cone of her bullet bra.

The young lady, in a below the knee poodle skirt, sweater, and ponytail, 
quickly realizes that she's about to lose control of the situation. She
brings her arms around and shoves the young man away.  "Get away from
me you PERVERT!  No one said you could go that far!"

Jim Nutley
Kunoranter First Class
(Humble Too!)