Andre’s Reviews > The Great Mirror of Male Love > Status Update

Screw this. I will not continue with this book. The stories are really troubling to me, this pederasty is disgusting, some of them hate women to a pathological degree and damn most of them are badly written and so similar they are just rehashes.

And what is with all the death and being sick because of love in this book? Damn is this depressing.

And another actor who is stated to look like a woman, so much that women envied the boy. Where is the liking of boys who play the male roles?

And this one here complains about teenage prostitutes visiting female prostitutes and says that they can wait until 3-4 years have passed and they are no longer young and in demand... I might be getting sick. And really impatient. I am thinking of stopping this early. This is a chore to sit through.

And the start of this story complains how kabuki actors had to shave of the locks and so looked like men. The only positive thing here is that the story seems to complain that actors could get no patrons beyond the age of twenty and now 34/35 year olds with "youthful looks" can get one and calls this "strange are the ways of love."

Oh yeah... his beauty had faded and he became a monk, at the age of 20... aka this beauty, of this actor of female roles, is based on imitating female beauty and that needs boyhood, at 20 he is obviously masculine now. This "peek of youthful beauty" is midteens... this book can be really hard to read.

Oh god, you don't even have to read between the lines here, it is so obvious that this is nothing more than someone complaining that the boy prositutes are more expensive today and they dress above their station. The author pines for the days when "actors" (aka prostitutes) were satisfied with much less. All actors of female characters apparently.

It is very telling that the story only complains how buying boy actors for te night is now more expensive due to some priests spending so much money. That is very telling. Just as telling as the fact that this is done with the boy actors doing female roles apparently, no boy actors doing male roles are mentioned.

Ok, I expected Geki and Okura to be dead at the end of this story, after all, both were teenagers when fallen in love and were now offically men. And, somehow, Geki killed Okura, but now Geki lives because he is told not to commit seppuku because Geki's father had already arranged a marriage for him. Which btw. came completely out of nowhere. And I now started to read more shallowy, this doesn't deserve more.

Big shocker, Uhei (23) and Seizo (24) commit suicide because they cannot be with Matsusaburo (19) anymore. Where is the acceptance that the editor claimed? And when the next story at least seems to be more positive for having a male couple that is together for almost 50 years, the two are deeply misogynistic, almost lethally so. These texts clearly show that the editor is a liar!!!