In a bid to contain the second wave of the coronavirus around Japan, people are now being encouraged to have "online nomikai" (drinking parties) rather than meeting in person for food and booze at the usual izakaya or restaurant.
Thankfully, technology now makes this possible, though the idea has a fatal flaw. One of the major appeals of a nomikai is that it gives you the chance to hook up with that friend of a friend who tags along, or that cutie at the next table. Zoom is great but it removes that from the equation, hence dating will really suffer in these coronavirus times.
How can you ...
Following our post earlier this week about the hentai art face masks that Tama Toys has recently released, now we have another related development to report.
If you are into smell fetishes, you are in for a treat. And fear not, no additional risk of exposure to the coronavirus.
The Joshi Kosei no Mask no Nioi Schoolgirl Face Mask Smell Spray is yet another creation from the imaginative minds of the hardworking folk at Tama Toys.
Don't be put off by the longish name. This is a simple yet unique fetish item: a spray that replicates the special aroma of a schoolgirl's face mask after it has ...
The latest minor celebrity to make the crossover to porn is Riri Nanatsumori (七ツ森りり), who previously worked under the name Reika Matsumoto (松本鈴香).
Born in 1995 and blessed with an F-cup bust, Riri Nanatsumori is half-Japanese, half-Filipino. Along with the relatively recent porn debut of Japanese-Portuguese performer Karen Ishida, there is growing demand for so-called "haafu" AV idols.
She built up a career as Reika Matsumoto initially as a model for the magazine CHOKi CHOKi and as a host of a music TV show.
She changed her professional name in July when she switched to ...
The adult industry in Japan has responded to the coronavirus pandemic in various ways, though this has mainly involved sections of the industry like the hostess/host clubs and call girls services.
The former have sanitized their facilities and worked with the government to conduct testing and improve their tarnished reputations. The latter have offered special pandemic discounts in the hopes that all this stress is making people horny. In general, though, hostess clubs and sex workers are really struggling.
Soft on Demand quickly launched a big campaign offering free porn streaming to help ...
It's the battle of the universities! Waseda versus Keio: which student is hotter?
We previously wrote about the porn debut of a Waseda University student.
That same student, Mao Watanabe (渡辺まお), has now teamed up with Saiko Yatsuhashi (八ツ橋さい子), a graduated of Keio, for a nude photo shoot that is a clever take on the traditional rivalry between the two colleges, the top private universities in Tokyo. Not only is this a full-frontal "hair nude," it also has some serious lesbian tones.
Saiko Yatsuhashi is 27 years old and already an experienced JAV performer with multiple ...
Call us morbid, but we have a strange fascination with the afterlives of gravure idols.
This is a competitive, cruel industry, one where young women are discarded after two or three years. From gracing the covers of the weekly tabloids like Spa! and, if you're lucky, releasing digital or print photo books, you might descend quickly into obscurity when the editors and people behind the scenes decide to make someone else a star for another brief run.
Given the open secret of the casting couch, it is hardly a giant leap of logic to see why some, if not many, gradols go on to second (or, let's ...
Oh, to be single again. But one expert has recently warned of the perils of dating and even kissing in the age of the coronavirus.
While a lot of the attention has focused somewhat disproportionately on hostess and hostess clubs, the coronavirus pandemic has also massively impacted nightclubs, bars, and live music venues. With the nightlife industry on the verge of collapse, this is not just a loss in terms of cool places to go and hang out -- it also affects how people date and woo a partner.
If you can't go to a karaoke booth with your date, where can you get some smooching done in ...
ASMR is one of those things that some people just don't get. It is, let's be honest, for a certain type of person or mindset.
But there is ASMR and then there's ASMR. And then there's Japanese ASMR.
Which means at times intersecting with some very strange fetishes. But how about an audio-sensory frisson from flatulence?
A dojinshi circle, Inoshikachokan (いのしかちょう館), has released an hour-long audio file of a voice actress farting.
Created by Uribou (うりぼう) and with illustrations by Yamato (Daikon), the seiyu Kotori Hino's (日乃ことり) novel contribution to the ...
Forget the Fantastic Beasts series. Our favorite supernatural franchise of late is the Amazing Beasts series of sex toys.
The Amazing Beasts series is a lineup of dildos inspired by animals and creature characters. If you want to be fucked or to fuck a partner with what looks like a monster's cock, then this is the series for you.
And we just spotted one of the recent entries that is now available for international delivery.
Made by Daimaoh, a Japanese adult retailer that occasionally ventures into creating its own toys, usually with outlandish results (a dolphin sex doll, anyone?), this ...
In a further sign that hosts and hostesses are skillfully trying to reframe the media narrative that has demonized their trade as hotspots for spreading coronavirus infections in Tokyo, the city's metropolitan government has released educational videos on COVID-19 that see two hosts and a hostess ask doctors questions.
After host clubs began cooperating with the Shinjuku government to initiate testing for employees and stem the spread in Kabukicho (and the demonization in the media), and the government started handing out cash payments to clubs that agree to close and to individual hosts and ...
