A Japanese magazine ranked women’s universities by how easy it is to have sex at drinking parties
- The article ranked universities on how easy it is to convince female students to have sex at drinking parties
- An online campaign accusing the magazine of ‘sexualising, objectifying and disrespecting women’ has garnered support from more than 35,000 people
A Japanese tabloid magazine apologised on Tuesday for an article ranking women’s universities by how easy it is to convince students to have sex at drinking parties.
The list appeared in the December 25 issue of the weekly magazine “Spa!” and prompted outrage, particularly online where one woman launched a campaign seeking an apology and suspension of sales of the offending issue.
Her petition on the Change.org platform accused the article of “sexualising, objectifying and disrespecting women” and had amassed more than 35,000 signatures by Tuesday.
“We would like to apologise for using sensational language to appeal to readers about how they can become intimate with women and for creating a ranking … with real university names … that resulted in a feature that may have offended readers,” the magazine’s editorial department said in a statement.
The article was about a practice the magazine described as gyaranomi or drinking parties that male participants pay women to attend.
