THE JAPANESE have long been known for sex-fetishes some westerners might consider odd. Some of the odder ones are listed on this page selling import DVDs. (Link not safe for work.)

The list of videos starts out with easy to understand fantasies: Nude swimming, nude volleyball, nude gymnastics; all portrayed by casts of dozens. From there it gets into less common fantasies, such as couples having sex while the woman’s supposed roommate is supposedly asleep in the same room. Then comes a reference to something called “64 Girls Practice Emergency and First Aid.”

But halfway down the page, there’s a disc called Stark Naked Orchestra.

That’s right: Seventeen female musicians and a female conductor, all wearing only identical tasteful black pumps, sitting or standing up straight, apparently actually performing. Just like the cable pay-per-view show Naked News, this video (which I haven’t viewed) apparently depicts smart, competent women who are nude-but-not-lewd, an ultimate fantasy indeed for certain men living in the age of “women’s empowerment.” (U.S. hoaxster Alan Abel promoted an act called the Topless String Quartet circa 1971, but those women apparently didn’t really play their instruments on stage.)

(Those who insist upon thinking crudely might note that the Stark Naked Orchestra women play only horns, reeds, and percussion instruments, and might ponder whether they sometimes appear with strings.)