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I read recently that in the 1500s, Portuguese slave ships brought Japanese women to Portugal for sexual purposes. How were they thought of in Portugal? Were they considered extremely exotic? Were they fetishized?

by /u/Butthole_Alamo in /r/AskHistorians

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