When I was a kid, nobody except us kids ever talked about sex. It was hush-hush at home. It was hush-hush in school. And it was most certainly hush-hush in church. The preacher not only didn’t talk ...

Concubinage fell into official disrepute in Japan in the late 19th Century when the Japanese discovered that Westerners considered it a barbaric practice. Many a wealthy Japanese male, however, ...