It’s lame and *very* sex-negative and I have no idea what it really has to do with geeks, but this Wired piece about fetish cafes is still interesting — would have been even more interesting if the writer had expanded on the cafes, and left out the judgmental psychoanalysis. Love the hanging accusation that patrons are degrading women — boo on you, Wired. However, the cafes (linked via the article) actually look really cute and I’d love to visit one. Snip:

“Named after a manga comic book and a short-lived ’90s TV show about six Japanese “office ladies,” Shomuni features an all-you-can-eat, all-you-can-drink menu served by 15 costumed waitresses who start off dressed like receptionists and end up handcuffing patrons to their tables in sexy police uniforms.

Shomuni is the latest addition to a growing number of fetish restaurants sprouting up around Tokyo.

When maid cafes first started to appear in the back streets of Akihabara around 2000, geeks were finally able to live out their fantasies of being gawked at and served by pretty, submissive girls for a small fee.” Link.