Odd but interesting

[james_davis_nicoll]

Hokkyoku Nigo is part of a small subset in Japan with a fetish for wearing outfits called “zentai” — an abbreviation of “zenshintaitsu”, which means “full body suit” — who say they are seeking liberation by effacing the physical self.

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Comments

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Well, that's one way to defeat facial recognition.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Are they using "effacing" ironically?

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure no one is surprised that people combine zentai with other things, like bondage.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Blue Men! Or something.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Those are awfully festive costumes for people who want to efface themselves. I like them better than if they were plain and black. Also, I imagine, since the zentai suits are so revealing of body form, only people who comfortably feel that they are within the acceptable normal range of body types would feel comfortable dusplying themselves in this "effacing" way.

We have an accordion player here, The Great Morgani, who wears a different costume every day he appears (usually on the main street, often for festivals of which we have many since this is a tourist town). They all cover his face like that. But most of them involve clothing-like outer parts and hats and shoes. And many of them involve sequins or little mirrors and stuff.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I … honestly didn't realize this was a new-to-the-Internet thing. Have you seen the ones where the legs come together to make a mermaid tail?