The casting couch is one of the open secrets of the idol industry. Another one is the extra money that idols (music, gravure, AV), seiyu, models, and actors earn from compensated dating.
This gets exposed at regular intervals by tabloid scoops. One such scandal caused Shoko Takahashi to lose her agency as a gradol (when she worked as Shoko Takasaki) and launched her porn career.
The JAV star Yuria Satomi had trouble with the tax agency in 2016 over huge amounts of undeclared income from her "boyfriends," who compensated her financially for their relationship.
The latest scandal was broken ...
The biggest porn debut of the year so far, Kaoru Yasui's first release will thankfully not be a one-off.
Yasui made a splash with her adult video debut in February via Muteki, which specializes in crossover debuts. A former gravure idol and known for her large H-cup breasts, Yasui will continue her porn career with further releases from another studio, S1 No. 1 Style, one of the biggest names in JAV. (Muteki and S1 No. 1 Style are technically part of the same corporate group -- most things in the JAV industry are interconnected!)
Coming in at an impressive 170 minutes, Kaoru's next ...
What can gravure idols do after their careers dry up? We have chronicled many intriguing responses to this classic conundrum. But how about becoming a politician?
That's what the one-time gradol and tarento Chisato Morishita is apparently trying to do.
Originally a race queen, Morishita was a big star in the gravure world and a fairly regular face on TV in the 2000s, winning popularity in bikini shoots that accentuated her slinky body and F-cup bust. After several photo books, however, her career stalled as she entered her thirties. She instead started teaching golf and published a novel in ...
Let's be honest. Unless you are into curvier ladies, you may struggle to find a Japanese lady with large enough breasts to motorboat or paizuri (titty-fuck) outside of porn. Thankfully, we have Japanese adult toys to help us out.
The latest in the Real Body Kiwami Nama Chichi series of breasts toys by SSI Japan, these "Venus" breasts live up to the promise of their name.
She is indeed an Aphrodite of Asia, and this bust is a life-sized replica of her perfect chest. You can lay them down flat on a surface or your bed, and then lube up and slide between them. Before you do so, you will want ...
Yua Mikami, one of the top porn stars, has launched her own apparel brand.
Though there are a few notable cases of porn stars forging interesting second careers after they leave the adult industry, it is relatively rare for actresses to maintain a successful second job while still acting in porn releases (though many porn stars do make occasional appearances in movies and TV series, almost always in "sexy" roles).
Mikami is one of the most prominent examples of an idol switching from a more mainstream area (in her case, as a music idol with SKE48) to porn, and not losing steam after just a ...
Gradol (gravure idol) shoots have a certain kind of culture. The locations gradually start to feel familiar and the way the models pose is also often repeated.
In this post, we bring together a few typical poses.
We start with the raised-arm pose, where the armpit(s) are exposed along with the neck and chest area. This hints at what the gradol looks like when pressed down on a bed or up against a wall.
The sideways-on-all-fours pose has obvious appeal: you get to see what she looks like when poised for doing it doggy. A common variation of this pose is from behind -- again, with ...
Japanese announcers are the ladies to follow if you want intelligence and grace.
Forget the gravure idols and all their busty, curvy charms. Forget the porn stars with their sexual prowess. Forget the music idols and their cute girl-next-door looks.
It's the announcers that everyone really wants to marry. Case in point, the wildly popular Minami Tanaka.
The 37-year-old Yukari Oshima (大島由香里) has now released her first photo book as part of her new stage in her career.
Married to a figure skated from 2016 to 2019 and now a freelance announcer, Oshima already wowed the internet ...
Hikari, a city in the rural prefecture of Yamaguchi in the west of Japan, has a mascot. No surprise there, since almost every town, city, prefecture, company, political party, or anything in Japan has an official mascot of some kind. Japanese adult toy brands also have them: Toy's Heart has Toys-kun, while Tama Toys has Super Tamanyan.
But Cuto is different.
Cuto is all about breasts and childrearing. As her name suggests, she looks cute, right? But those circles on her cheeks are not blushes. You've guessed it -- they're nipples. Because Cuto's head is meant to be a pair of ...
The Bamboo Gag Face Mask is essentially what its name says: a genuine face mask that features a bamboo mouth gag print on the front.
Face masks have become mandatory during the coronavirus pandemic around the world, but have long been common in Japan for various reasons. People wear masks when they have a cold or for protection against hay fever in certain seasons. Celebrities also wear face masks when out and about to hide their identity.
With the coronavirus pandemic creating a surge in face mask usage, we have seen lots of novel designs appearing. Japan's adult brands are never one to ...
Freelance photographer Misuzu Shibuya (渋谷美鈴) recently shared on Twitter highlights from an erotic photo shoot she did with three models: Maria Mitsu (Maria Temari), ai, and Rin.
In a far, frankly welcome cry from the more obvious world of busts, butts, and bikinis in the gravure shoots of the weekly tabloids, Shibuya has created an artistic, remarkably alluring series of images.
The red theme is an obvious winner, as is the water, subtle nudity, and the hints of lesbianism.
Is this the sexiest erotic photo shoot ever? Well, probably not -- but it's gotta be in the list.
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