What's the attraction of corpses for young women? Weekly Playboy 11/28
Young women are difficult creatures to understand. Weekly Playboy, a magazine devoted to the nearly impossible task of reading their minds, reports its latest discovery and attempts to explain the odd phenomenon under the grabbing headline,"Women who love dead bodies are rapidly on the rise."
The three-page report-analysis is based on two surprise discoveries by the magazine's editors ― a new magazine introducing the personal history and modus operandi of convicted murderers is a hot seller and a natural history exhibit in Tokyo displaying genuine corpses as specimens is jam-packed.
These two happenings might not be related, but the magazine thinks otherwise. The magazine maintains that the two are different manifestations of a new, but largely unrecognized, boom among young women ― admiring photographs of dead human bodies and stories of blood-thirsty criminals.
Whichever might be the case, what is happening deserves attention. Weekly Playboy reports that a new magazine titled "Shukan Murder Casebook" sold 850,000 copies of its inaugural issue. Weekly Playboy quotes the editor of the eccentric journal, translated from a British original, and informs that more than 60 percent of its readers are women in their 20s.