Vending machine

Okay, so hopefully this is not too inappropriate, but ever since I took this picture I have wanted to talk about it here. For me the most surprising thing about this vending machine is not that it sells porn, but that it actually sells magazines. Although I am sure that those people who actually buy out of this vending machine are not buying for the reading material (if there is any).
When I first took this picture about a week or so ago it became one of those images that really set America and Japan a part for me. In America you would never find a vending machine that sold reading material (even questionable ones). After all, vending machines are for buying drinks, not books. When I saw this I immediately thought that "wow! Japan and America are really very different places". It set Japan and America apart for me in a way that other things I have experienced here have not.