People in Asia sit like that waiting for buses. It doesn't mean they're peeing. It's not my first thought when I see someone in that position.

Dumas...heh.

That's what (I have read) is rudely referred to in Japan as a "shit squat". It is supposed to be rude for young girls to crouch like this, and they do it to be defiant.

@1 yes, but usually they're in pants -- and if they're wearing a skirt it's generally arranged a little differently. Many in Asia also squat that way to use the toilet as well. It's actually a comfortable way to rest once your legs get used to it (your heels have to remain on the ground; the western tendency to go up on the toes in this position is crazy and self-defeating).

They all have blank patches where "privates" would be revealed

...exactly like legal Japanese porn (anime and manga; live action the area is blurred instead). I'm convinced that prior to the internet there were many adult men in Japan who avidly consumed porn but had only the vaguest idea of what female genitalia actually looked like.

I hate this guy's stuff. One of his pieces is in the CSE building at UW and I swear the little girl's eyes follow you around. Creepy.

Despite its actual size, this scale-less image reminded me of what some (not I) might call lowbrow art: pornographic netsuke, a delightful display of hundreds of which I saw some years ago in the storefront windows of what was probably Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, CA.

I've wanted to start a collection ever since.

I interpreted that "blank patch" as her panties, a common sight when looking upskirt.