Rock, Paper, Scissors—sex? The seemingly innocent game is said to have begun as a form of foreplay in sex houses. “Technically, it originally started out as a Sansukumi-Ken, which was a Chinese drinking game,” a historian revealed on TikTok. “But when the game traveled through Japan in the 17th and 18th centuries, it became incredibly popular in brothels.”
The book “The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure” says: “[It] was in existence in the Edo period from at least 1700 onward and served as an innocent drinking game or as a kind of foreplay in the amusement quarters.” Historians also note the hand gesture “scissors” had to do with the cutting away of clothes. “One variation of the game had players remove an item of clothing every time they lost a round. Effectively making it ‘strip’ Rock, Paper, Scissors.”
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