Naked sushi, a practice known as nyotaimori in Japan, has been taken off the table at new Honolulu restaurant RaKuen, after letters of protest by the Department of Labor and Kathryn Xian, executive director of Safe Zone Foundation, an organization aimed at preventing violence against women and girls.

“There is a difference between having the freedom to express oneself sexually and sexual objectification of the female,” Xian wrote us in an email. “If you want to eat sushi off your lover behind closed doors in your own home, that’s your choice. When it becomes a public display of objectification within the historical context of Nyotaimori and who has traditionally practiced it (e.g. the Yakuza and their sex-slaves), there’s a CLEAR boundary crossing.

— Honolulu Magazine