The fertility/harvest festival held annually at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi, isn't as famous as the Kanamara festival, held near Tokyo, but is another example of an ancient Shinto event in which phallic objects abound.
Like with Kanamara, the Tagata Shrine honen festival makes for some very photogenic moments where a giant phallus newly carved from cypress is paraded around on March 15. This is led by the Shinto shrine's priests in all their finery. Women in robes also walk around holding smaller phallus objects.
Festivals are also about making money for the shrine, and Tagata Shrine, ...
The former HKT48 idol Haruka Kodama recently appeared on a TV variety show where guests were asked to give their insights on how a couple can improve their relationship.
She gave one suggestion that shocked (or delighted) fans: she said that couples should watch porn together.
On the ABEMA show on February 7, where couples get advice directly from guests in the studio, a female comedian called Renachiru complained that her sex life with her boyfriend (a former host) had declined. She suspects she might be to blame, because she admits imposing a lot of rules on her lover, including blanket ...
Japan is famously, perhaps infamously, a land of few condom users.
To the chagrin of brands like Okamoto and Sagami, especially because they produce some the thinnest and best-quality condoms in the world, couples tend to prefer the classic pulling-out technique to safe sex that lets you finish inside.
And it's one reason there are a lot of shotgun weddings, especially among celebrities (for whom, it is seemingly the only way to get out of their contracts). Oh, and rampant syphilis.
But will the guys start wearing condoms during masturbation?
If that sounds like an oxymoron, we mean this: ...
Tea Friends is a new Japanese film about sex services for the elderly.
A former sex worker called Mana (Rei Okamoto) runs the eponymous service, which she considers more like a community of "tea girls" who sleep with older men.
The clients answer vague ads asking for "tea friends" and this is how they meet the women involved with the service, who tend to be mature too. If this sounds twee, it's actually realistic -- we wrote about a similar service before.
Inevitably, their encounters involves trips to love hotels but the film suggests there's more to this than just sex. Also inevitably, ...
A 54-year-old Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an ex-music idol.
Police in Fuchu arrested Akira Ishikawa on February 3 for killing a 24-year-old former idol called Sana Hirabayashi at a hotel in the city in the west of Tokyo by stabbing her neck.
Security camera footage captured the two entering the hotel at 2 a.m. on the morning of February 2. Ishikawa then left alone about four hours later. The hotel became concerned when Hirabayashi had still not emerged from the room by 1:30 a.m. on February 3 and couldn't be contacted. They called police, who found her in the ...
Our friends over at Kanojo Toys, the internet's largest source of Japanese adult items shipped globally, are having a sale for Valentine's Day.
Starting this week and running through Valentine's Day, you can get 20% off any order with the (appropriately chosen) promo code "Love."
Since this is the season for romance and giving gifts, you could check out their range of toys for couples and for women -- and REALLY surprise (and please) your partner this Valentine's Day.
On the other hand, we've always been big believers in the idea that Valentine's Day should be about self-love, and Kanojo ...
In October last year, we posted something about the extraordinary phenomenon that are the Rakuten Girls in Taiwan: the squadron of cheerleaders who entertain fans at games played by the Rakuten Monkeys, a baseball team sponsored by the Japanese e-commerce giant. The results, especially when the cheerleaders dress up as office ladies in tight skirts, are amazing -- even if they are unlikely to convince feminists that baseball is not just for guys.
Now one of those Rakuten Girls, Mizuki Lin (Lin Xiang, 林襄), has posed for a semi-nude photo shoot that's surely a home run for her fans.
The ...
There are peeping Toms and then there are peeping Toms. And these guys didn't do things by half measures.
Shizuoka police have arrested a gang of peeping Toms who have been active for 30 years -- yes, three whole decades! The 13 voyeurs, including the 50-year-old leader, were apprehended in recent months, while a further three others connecting to the filming (including a doctor) have now been referred to the prosecutors.
Active since he was 20, the leader alone claims to have filmed over 10,000 people without consent at locations all around Japan (with the exception, for some reason, of ...
Back when Ah, Wilderness (sometimes just Wilderness) came out in 2017, we inevitably took most interest in the nude sex scenes featuring a long-time favorite of this blog, the gravure idol Anna Konno.
Her breasts were as beautiful as we'd imagined from those many hours spent pouring over her bikini shoots.
The film was actually released in two parts, though the good bits were in the first half.
We recently took another look and decided to revisit the sex scenes involving another female performer in the film.
Akari Kinoshita (木下あかり) is an attractive actress now aged 30. She makes ...
Earlier this week we shared pictures of what retired gravure idol Yukie Kawamura now looks like in her late thirties, having seemingly embraced the role of married semi-rural mom.
If Yukie's comely wife look got your heart racing, wait till you see Misumi Shiochi's latest pictures.
Now aged 40, Shiochi is still stunning -- and wants to show herself off to the world (again).
She is, of course, no stranger to gravure shoots, including nude ones that reveal her shapely butt, the former TV announcer is Japan's favorite jukujo at the moment (since the likes of Mitsu Dan and Manami Hashimoto are ...
