Here's a peculiar case. As reported in Bengo4, a woman is suing her employer in Japan for enabling sexual harassment. Her company failed to act after it was alleged the woman's section chief sent ...

How consensual is porn? The upcoming change to the age of adulthood in Japan and its implications for people signing contracts to do porn has prompted politicians to scramble to make legislation ...

You can be an acclaimed actor and also a sex symbol. That's perhaps not acknowledged enough, especially in Japan, where beauty inevitably tends to take precedence over talent. There is quite a ...

It's true that we don't talk enough about vibrators on this little blog of ours, since we tend to have our hands full covering all the latest developments in Japanese adult video, gravure, onaholes, ...

As reported before on this blog, the implications of the change in the age of legal adulthood in Japan from 20 to 18 for the adult industry are attracted negative attention. There are fears that ...

She is, in our humble opinion, the proud owner of the best pair of buttocks in gravure at the moment, and now she's just showed us even more of them. Umi Shinonome has released her first photo book, ...

Skinship is big in Japan: a concept of bodily intimacy via contact through the skin, such as by sleeping on neighboring futon or, most obviously, bathing together. So while your mom or bestie might ...

Is it something in the air? A kind of "comeback vapor" that's encouraging all these lovely ladies to re-enter the limelight? Another one has come out of the woodwork: in the wake of high-profile ...

We make no secret of our admiration for Japanese adult toy brands like G Project, whose output always impresses. And just when we think we've seen every possible variation on the masturbator, along ...

Tenga is, as regular readers will know, one of Japan's leading adult toy brands, and surely the one that has the most success overseas, helped by its very clean and universal design (a far cry from ...