A few weeks ago, we reported on the rise in highly visible prostitution in the Okubo area of Shinjuku, located next to the notorious entertainment and red-light district of Kabukicho.
Recent attempts to gentrify Kabukicho notwithstanding, you are still only a short walk away from a blow-job parlor and a huge bevy of love hotels, which stretch all the way to Okubo.
The latter has now become a well-known and flagrant place for picking up street walkers, who are otherwise relatively rare sights in the city. Most sex workers operate from "delivery health" businesses as call girls dispatched to ...
Last month, we wrote about the controversy that threatened to wreck one of the conventions of the Japanese summer: swimwear gravure photo events where fans go to see and take pictures of models and idols.
These are often held in public lidos (outdoor pools), and are popular events that attract large numbers of fans.
After local Japanese Communist Party politicians complained about the commercial use of prefectural parks and the "lewd" nature of the poses, though, authorities stepped in to ask organizers to call off some events in June.
This was then criticized as censorship and ...
One thing that becomes apparent quite quickly if you spend any time reading product info about Japanese masturbators (known as onaholes) is that designs really like to talk about the cervix and uterus.
The canal will often include a portio vaginalis section (the part of the cervix in the vagina) and even a cervix opening that you can penetrate, since a vagina and rubbing up against the cervix alone is not exciting enough, it seems.
If these were actual vaginas, we would all be smashing our ways through the cervix and shoving our cocks directly into the womb itself! We're not gynecologists, ...
There are jukujo mature porn stars. And then there's Yuko Ogasawara (小笠原裕子).
The 88-year-old is probably the world's oldest porn performer.
We found a couple of recently published longish interviews with her on Shueisha Online.
The obvious questions to start with are: When and why did she begin performing?
Her husband died when she was 59 and she then entered the world of snack bars, working as a "mama" as one bar for seven years from the age of 61. Even after giving that up in 68, it was still several years until she entered the adult video industry.
She spent the ...
Sex sells, a truth of which this blog is an undeniable beneficiary.
But when it suggestive and risqué too much? This thorny issue has been reopened by, of all things, an ice cream ad.
Manufacturer Morinaga surely didn't expect to find themselves in the middle of a social media storm when it conceived a series of illustrations to promote its Ice Box product this summer.
It released these online and offered a small number of postcards to Twitter followers.
But the tenth illustration the company announced on July 6 quickly raised eyebrows and drew criticism for its sexual nature.
Created ...
Kaho Shibuya was a big name in porn during her time as a performer and she's also a rare example of someone who has managed to retain her fame since retiring from adult video in 2018 by carving out a successful second career.
She also takes no prisoners, prepared to spill the beans on the dark side of Japanese porn, and sue a production company for leaking her old videos.
Now active as a cosplayer, Twitch streamer, and author, Shibuya speaks English fluently, which has helped her a lot to keep an international profile.
She recently sat down with Tokyo Weekender for an interview about her ...
In need of some summer lovin'? Our friends at Kanojo Toys, the internet's largest source of Japanese adult toys, are having a big summer sale through July 20.
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The sale applies to all items in store, from onaholes and male masturbation aids to vibrators, lubes, dolls, toys for girls, toys for couples, and more.
One of the strengths of Kanojo Toys is the sheer breadth of choice it offers in its catalog, stocking the latest strokers from the major brands but also a wealth of other items you ...
Twitter. YouTube. TikTok. Instagram. And now Threads. It's a crowded social media landscape and people want to stand out.
It has become one of the aphorisms of our times that people will do almost anything for clout.
And that includes crazy antics in Japan.
Known as p8stie or Mariè online, and claiming to be an independent journalist and dentist, a French woman has claimed she was attacked in the Tobita Shinchi red-light district of Osaka. In Tobita, you get a sense of the bygone Japanese pleasure quarters, with its street full of old establishments with entranceways, in which sit sex ...
It's no secret that the Tokyo Kinky team has a thing for Mariya Nagao.
The former AKB48 hottie now works as a model, actress, and general TV celebrity.
And though it's hardly a surprise that a woman of her age, beauty, and social opportunities would not have lovers, we can't help but feel a bit peeved and sad at the news that broke recently about her new boyfriend.
Apparently, Mariyagi is in a relationship with a former Kabukicho host, having met through a mutual friend.
Fresh off releasing a ravishing photo book earlier this year, she's been spotted by weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun in ...
Former pop singer, Haruka Kudo these days focuses on her acting after leaving Morning Musume in 2017. She joined the long-running idol group as a preteen.
The 23-year-old is currently starring in the drama series around 1/4 on TV Asahi and ABC TV.
It features a sex scene that has got fans and netizens excited.
This being a mainstream Japanese TV show, there's no actual nudity (we have to go to the streamers for that in Japan).
But we do get to see Haruka Kudo in her underwear and touching her breasts as she talks to a man online. She shows off some bust, which appears larger than you ...
