Wow, this is big. We have been worried about police crackdowns for a while, especially with the upcoming Olympics likely to become an excuse for exerting state power.
Could this be the tip of the iceberg?
Police have raided one of Tokyo's top BDSM clubs, KUNKUN. The Ueno club is pretty big (we've been there) and also fairly new (it opened in mid-2012). It is the base of one of Japan's best-known shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage art masters, Hajime Kinoko (Hideto Hiramatsu).
Of course, there is a thin line between being bondage club where a show may take place and being a "happening" ...
The sweet 26-year-old Hatsune Matsushima (松嶋初音), known by the nickname Hachu, was born in 1987.
Her cute aura combines with a pure eroticism that is at once fragile but compelling.
Okay, enough poetry. Here are the ...
Tenga is back and with a whole new kind of product.
The makers of the Tenga Egg and Tenga Flip Hole have turned to convenience for their latest inspiration. Pocket Tenga is now available -- it was announced a few weeks ago but we held back to blog about it when it was actually on the market -- and is the ideal sex toy to take around with you.
Ideal because you can literally slip it in your pocket and Tenga have even considered the disposal process!
Pocket Tenga is super stretchy and works like an Egg. Just open up the sachet, pour in the lotion (included) and then get to work with your ...
Parody and sex. Not a typical partnership but one that you can find in abundance in Japan.
Japanese sex toys are always making allusions and references to popular culture.
From the Atushi Male Body Dildo (pop idol Atsushi from EXILE) to the "hi-jitsuzai" unreal Virgin JS First Fellatio (a reference to the "hijitsuzai seishonen" wording in the controversial revision to Tokyo laws for "protecting youth" against harmful manga), there is a host of wordplay and in-jokes just waiting to be unravelled.
The Hyper Dash Rotor Vibrator Kit is inspired by Gakken's Otona no Kagaku "adult ...
Photographer Hal is, as the name suggests, a photographer in Japan. While that may not sound unusual, one glance at his output and you'll see this is not the stuff you tend to encounter on Flickr.
Photographer Hal creates amazing vacuum-packed photography in which naked couples embrace each other in a plastic bag.
"Photographer Hal started packing couples together in futon vacuum bags to preserve their love forever. The process to achieve this eternal image is very organic and each couple can only be left inside the seal bag for 10 seconds."
Using futon sealing bags, the ...
Durex, the condom brand, have an interest in things sexual.
This doesn't just mean marketing their prophylactic, it also means studying global sex habits.
From Durex's Sexual Wellbeing Survey (2007/2008) and Face of Global Sex (2012), they gained some insights into international bedroom tendencies among heterosexual couples.
The Japan results intrigued us...
The main conclusion is that apparently people in Japan are very unhappy with their sex lives.
Japan was the only country where more people said they were dissatisfied with their sex lives than satisfied.
See the chart ...
There are fetishes and then there are fetishes. This is one of those extreme ones.
An Osaka taxi driver has been arrested for drugging a female passenger. We are familiar with unpleasant tales of taxi drivers and female passengers, but this is something new.
Toshihiko Nishi (41) was arrested on May 7th on suspicion of giving a passenger snacks laced with a powerful diuretic. He then steadfastly refused to let the passenger out even as her situation grew more and more desperate.
Nishi has apparently admitted the charges and said the reason was he gets sexually aroused by women displaying ...
Not all Japanese sex toys are for the boys, you know.
The Atushi Japanese Male Body Dildo is a flatbed-style torso body dildo. It gives you a muscular, sexy Japanese man's chest as well as an erect cock and balls for you to ride.
The title is a cheeky reference to Atsushi, the hunky guy from the idol band EXILE. Japanese sex toys often use wordplay and parody in their titles, often riding along a thin legal line in the process. We wonder what the real Atsushi would think of this tribute?
Actually, though, this is for the boys as much as the girls, since there is an anal hole ...
At just under 18 years old.
At least, the national average is 17.7 years old for when women in Japan get their first kiss, according to a new survey by LC Love Cosmetic.
In April this year the researchers asked 2,350 women from all over Japan and compiled the results into a handy map.
The kinkiest ladies, the ones most keen to get started on their smooching careers, hail from Tokyo (#1) at 16.3 years old, chilly Akita (#2) in the north at 16.6 years old, and then warm but typhoon-struck Nagasaki (#3) in the south at 16.7 years old.
In these prefectures, first and second ...
We all know that plastic surgery is a dirty secret in Japan and an open practice in Korea.
But what about China?
Well, here's a demonstration of the perils of tampering too much with with what nature gives you.
Fashion model Li Ying Zhi has had some work done on her face, especially her chin, as can be witnessed by comparing her appearance in 2012 with a recent one in 2014.
This is the stunner in 2012 at the Beijing Motor Show, promoting BMW.
But these days she looks rather different (admittedly the quality of the images is also somewhat to blame for the ...
