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（1995年11月19日 TI）
Weekly Playboy 11/28
Young women are difficult creatures to understand.
Weekly Playboy, a magazine devoted to the nearly impossible task of reading their minds, reports its latest discovery and attempts to explain the odd phenomenon under the grabbing headline,"Women who love dead bodies are rapidly on the rise."
The three-page report-analysis is based on two surprise discoveries by the magazine's editors — a new magazine introducing the personal history and modus operandi of convicted murderers is a hot seller and a natural history exhibit in Tokyo displaying genuine corpses as specimens is jam-packed.
These two happenings might not be related, but the magazine thinks otherwise.
The magazine maintains that the two are different manifestations of a new, but largely unrecognized, boom among young women — admiring photographs of dead human bodies and stories of blood-thirsty criminals.
Whichever might be the case, what is happening deserves attention.
Weekly Playboy reports that a new magazine titled "Shukan Murder Casebook" sold 850,000 copies of its inaugural issue.
Weekly Playboy quotes the editor of the eccentric journal, translated from a British original, and informs that more than 60 percent of its readers are women in their 20s.
Young women are also rushing to the "World of Human Bodies" exhibition now being shown at the National Science Museum in Ueno, Tokyo.
An investigator from Weekly Playboy discovers that high-school girls sporting chapatsu (died brown hair) and coeds wearing mini skirts and long boots, the types rarely seen at science museums, are forming crowds in front of glass cases containing such specimens as a sliced human body and skulls.
A spokesman for the exhibition tells Weekly Playboy that 60 percent to 65 percent of visitors are women, mostly in their late teens to early 20s.
"Everyone in our class is talking about this exhibition, so I came today to check it out," offers a female senior high-school student.
She adds that many students at her school are avid readers of "Shukan Murder Casebook."
Criminal psychologist Akira Sakuta says that women may be drawn to dead bodies and murder cases because of their sense of aggression is normally repressed.
"Other women might develop sympathy for the criminal (as they read his murder story) and even feel a sense of criminal accomplishment in the end through identification with the protagonist," suggests Sakura who offers his expertise to "Shukan Murder Casebook" as a supervisor.
A 25-year-old woman who loves murder stories and corpses endorses Sakata's view.
Analyzing her own fascination, the woman says, "When I was sexually awakened, I went mad over horror movies and splatter videos.
I think women masturbate psychologically by watching cruel scenes, just like men release their accumulated sexual energy by looking at nude phottos."
(TI)
［趣 旨］ 人間は病気の克服、健康への願いから自らの身体についてたゆみない研究を続けてきました。そのなかで大きな役割を担っているのが解剖学です。解剖学は近代医学発展の基礎となり、いまも様々な健康分野に貢献しています。本展は、そうした解剖学者たちの研究組織である日本解剖学会が今年、創立100周年を迎えるのを機に、神秘に満ちた人間の身体を、一般の人々に分かりやすく、かつ斬新な展示と説明方法によ り紹介するものです。 展示物には、特にドイツで開発された最新技術（プラスティネーション）による医学用の標本が、日本では初めて一般公開されます。また学会の膨大な所蔵資料、標本の中から、文豪・夏目漱石の脳が特別展示されるほか、日本初の西洋医学による人体解剖解説書である「解体新書」(献上本)など、貴重な品々が多数含まれます。また、工夫を凝らした多様な模型、イラスト、写真、映像により人体の驚くべきメカニズム を説明します。 このほか、解剖学の発展にともなう和洋各種の貴重な歴史資料、標本が多数展示され、「人体」をテーマとする展覧会としては類をみない規模と内容で開かれるものです。「健康」と「医療」への関心が益々高まる今日、画期的な意義をもつ特別展とな ります。
