Every few months along comes another one: a sensationalist English-language news wire article about Japanese sex dolls that appears everywhere, eager for clicks and comments.
This time it's an article with the very sensitively headline "Silicone Sally: Japanese men find true love with sex dolls". It comes courtesy of AFP, about physiotherapist Masayuki Ozaki turning to a silicone sex doll, Mayu, when romance in his marriage dried up.
Lonely guy buys sex doll. Hardly news. Goodness knows how AFP found this story or if it's even true. We are naturally somewhat suspicious of someone who ...
Once again we have been trawling some of Japan's postwar history for insights about the sexual development of the nation. Here are some awesome vintage images of classic love hotels.
Fans of love hotels and this blog will immediately spot that this one is the Meguro Emperor, a pioneering love hotel from the 1970s that has since re-opened.
The other two are, apparently, the Ichinomiya London and Olympia hotels.
It was around this time that love hotels started to become very elaborate, adding castle-style "battlements" and turrets. The results are bizarre, lurid and wacky, ...
This video by i-D features interviews with young people who identity as genderless.
The makers say that this "hypnotic youth movement are [sic] rejecting ideas of fashion defining sexuality" and call it "Tokyo's most boundary-pushing scene". The interviews are with four people -- Yutaro, Muyua, Yoshiaki, and Satsuki Nakayama (pictured below) -- who all have quite large followings on social media.
Genderless identity has particularly risen to the fore in the Japanese media recently with the popularity of the model and television personality Ryucheru.
"When I first wore a skirt, my ...
Shocking. Fluorescent. Gaudy. Loud. Vular. Neon. Flashy. Tacky.
There's a lot of epithets that can be applied to this new cosplay style that is like body art on psychedelic drugs, though none of them quite capture it.
Inspired by strange characters from anime, cinema and video games, behold the new Japanese subculture of ishoku-hada.
Certain sections of the Interweb are currently abuzz with breathless talk of this bizarre body painting and cosplay niche, which literally means "unique skin" or "unusual skin".
Like an "alien" version of gyaru, ganguro or yamanba trends, women dress ...
We're suckers for combos. Put two things that we like together and we get a "double-like" feeling.
And so it is with the lovely idol Erina Mano and Tenga. What more is there to say?
We've once again trawled the archives a bit with this one, but a TV drama featuring Erina Mano also had her lying on a bed filled with Tenga onacups, which have seemingly been used.
For good measure, she's also hugging a dutch wife (dakimakura, or hug pillow sex doll), though somewhat disturbingly it has a red mask on it (a traditional oni, or demon). Would that put you off?
We're ...
These days, the delightfully curvy Mitsu Dan is pretty mainstream and often appears on regular TV shows and commercials.
However, we still vividly remember the bad old days when she first burst on to the scene with some wild soft-core BDSM porn like Be My Slave (2012) that revealed pretty everything she had to offer except her pussy. And if she were so inclined to see that, she obliged with hair nude full frontals. Her more recent erotic shoots have been alluring yet not very graphic.
Let's get nostalgic about the sexier version of Mitsu Dan for a few moments by revisiting a late-night ...
Another week, another idol photo book or major weekly magazine photo shoot. What's special this time?
It's not the latest release from the ranks of AKB48 or Nogizaka46 trying to break out (though Mai Shiraishi did that very well recently with her bestselling photo book), nor the latest has-been model or actress stripping off fully nude in a last-ditch attempt to relaunch a dying career. Nor is it attracting controversy for its content per se like the Tomomi Kasai photo book where she was pictured naked with a young boy (Kodansha eventually canceled the release).
Nothing like as a crazy ...
It's not a big subgenre but it's certainly alive and kicking, and waiting for you if you are so inclined: shotacon adult toys.
Indeed, we doubt many regular readers of this blog are shocked to learn that shotacon (fetish about young boys -- well, let's say "young men" to stay legally acceptable, though it's a blurry line) is not just manifested in manga and anime.
One of the more "notorious" of these was the Boy's Anus Otoko no Ko Smell Bottle, which is unique as its name suggests. Sadly, that wonder from Tama Toys is sadly sold out but now you can get the next best thing
The Boy's ...
Love her or loathe her, one thing can't be denied about the tarento and model Rola: she has staying power.
While many other minor celebrities and idols have come and gone, she has continued to dominate TV and advertising, despite only having one real shtick -- that of being a haafu and playing stupid.
She has already survived one scandal when her foreign father was arrested for fraud a few years ago.
Can she survive this one? (Spoiler: we think so.)
She recently posted a video of herself to her popular Instagram account. Nothing unusual about that. Rola has a huge following on ...
Combing the archives, we found these leaked images of some slutty Japanese ladies taking a girls' trip out to the countryside that got very dirty, very quickly.
It was clearly summer (and apparently 2011), given what they are wearing, but they weren't keen on keeping their clothes on for long.
These girls were happy to strip off for some very provocative and playful poses in a remote corner of Japan.
They show off their lovely butts and one girl even seems to take out her tampon from her pussy. Want to see some bush? Yes, two of the ladies are happy to ...
