Posted
12/13/2004 05:24:00 PM
by Douglas
Sometimes after a long day at the office you just want to go home, kick back and put your head in someone's lap. But the dilemma most single Japanese men found themselves in was finding a lap. Strippers at titty bars cost too much, and strangers on the train generally end up screaming and slapping. But thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of Mitsuo Takahashi, everyone goes home
happy.The "lap pillow", shaped like the bottom half of a kneeling woman, is selling for about 9,429 yen ($90), the French news agency AFP reported.
"Single men find this soothing," said Mitsuo Takahashi of the manufacturer Trane KK.
He told AFP that the Hizamakura, or lap pillow, fulfilled a primal need.
"From the time people were kids, people have laid their heads on their mothers' laps to get their ears cleaned," he said. "This is made to be quite close to the real thing."
Creepy.