Japanese ‘lap pillow’ offers solace to lonely men
$90 pillow comes with one red and one black skirt
One popular item for holiday shoppers is the “lap pillow,” with skin-coloured polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs – a comfy cushion for napping, reading or watching television.
It’s a custom in Japan that a man lays his head in his lady’s lap that way and she…cleans his ear. No that’s not a euphemism. It’s just something couples do there.
Yeah well, Ed Gein told me that about human skin once, too. No, not really, but come on - it’s a DISEMBODIED LOWER FEMALE HALF.[/quote]
I think he means the ear-cleaning thing.