Japan's Pornography Drop Boxes Are Dwindling

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Japan's Pornography Drop Boxes Are Dwindling

If you’ve ever been at a Japanese train station and noticed some otherwise pretty mundane white post drop boxes, you might have seen a place to dispose of pornography. The Japanese news outlet Kyodo News explained that these drop boxes got their start in 1963 in the city of Amagasaki. The idea was that this could be a place people could safely discard X-rated books they no longer wanted, without the chance the books would end up on the streets w…