Released in Japan as Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden, we previously wrote about The Torture Club, a soft-core bondage film starring Noriko Kijima based on a manga. Now that Kota Yoshida's erotic film has had some sort of a stateside release, it seems, by chance we found some better screen grabs, so indulge us in a second trip to the world of Japanese lesbian BDSM -- not least because this time there's no censored hair and we get the full-frontal nudity in all its neatly trimmed glory. Alongside Noriko Kijima, whose explicit scenes leave practically nothing left to the imagination barring a ...

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Is Japan's naughty knotty BDSM scene too dangerous? This was the question asked recently by Jake Adelstein, the Tokyo-based reporter who has made a career out of being the foreign media's go-to guy for yakuza stories and gossip. Adelstein's article for the Daily Beast website is an interview with Golden-san, aka Golden Rule S.M. or Doctor Golden, who is calling for a "gentler, wiser, and kinder BDSM." Doctor Golden, who is an S&M practitioner and also a chiropractor, has been taking care of people, mainly women, injured in the pursuit of their pleasure for over two decades. Next ...

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Torture Garden Japan is back this summer for another bonanza of BDSM wonder. The premier mainstream event for bondage fans in Japan, it's also the only officially licensed offshoot of London’s original Torture Garden, the world's leading fetish club. It has been happening in Tokyo since 2001 and often holds events more than once a year, though the summer one is the highlight of the calendar. We blogged about the 2016 summer ball. Tickets to the event on June 10th at XEX Nihonbashi cost ¥6,000 and doors open at 10pm. Performers included Miss Miranda from the United States, ...

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The overseas media's favorite bondage artist, Hajime Kinoko, continues his comeback. After being arrested and his Ueno club shut down in 2014, Hajime Kinoko is now back for good. So much so that he can work with major fashion brands. To celebrate the opening of the new Christian Dada store in Minami-Aoyama, Hajime Kinoko was invited to put on a unique shibari rope bondage performance inside the shop. The ravishingly beautiful model in the show was Machiko. The photos, cast in crimson, really do justice to her classical looks. With its bold red ropes, the interior of the ...

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Cute and kinky. Those two words sum up so much about the Japanese erotic. Hajime Kinoko is one of Japan's most famous shibari (aka kinbaku) rope bondage artists. We once visited his BDSM bar in Ueno, only for it later to be raided and shut down by police. Kinoko Hajime was himself arrested, though he has made a comeback, such as holding an exhibition called "Red". He now offers lessons and does events like workshops and "cyber neo-shibari" shows. He has opened a space again but this time it's not a bar. Instead it's branded as a "salon" for learning the ropes (sorry for the pun) of ...

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The only officially licensed offshoot of London's original Torture Garden, the world's leading fetish club lands in Tokyo for Torture Garden Japan. Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the fetish fantasy party welcomes BSDM and bondage fans of all creeds as well as cyberpunkers, fetishists and extreme cosplayers to Xex Nihonbashi on April 2nd from midnight (natch). Just make sure you're not wearing casual clothes: Enforced Fantasy Dress Code (Full Costumes Only / No Half Measures / TG is an Extreme Event for Extreme People!): Fetish, Body Art, SM, Burlesque, Berlin Kabaret, ...

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Fetish Festival (Feti-Fes) was held on January 31st at a venue in Harajuku and what a serendipitous collection of fetishes it was! We loved the one we attended last year. This January we couldn't go in person but watched from afar via the festival's official social media channels, from where we have pouched these shots. Everything from rope bondage and steampunk to almost-not-there bikini idols, crotch shots, masks, blood and horror, nurses, eyepatches, facesitting, and everything in between. The festival remains one of the most accessible ways to experience the sheer range of ...

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We all know that Japan has a thing about cat girls and related adult toys, and in general kemonomimi anthropomorphism is huge. So you've probably already tried the whip and the collar, the cat ears, the costumes, and the animal tails. But what about this? The Chokyo Dog Bone Gag is a BDSM mouth accessory that transforms your partner or slave into a canine canine. He or she can crawl around on all fours with this bone between their mouth. The bone looks great and is just the right size: not too big to affect movement or cause pain. The gag collar is also adjustable ...

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We previously covered the slinky, slutty delights of Yuki Mamiya, aka Yuki Mogami. The gravure idol is an occasional actress, appearing in such masterpieces as the soft-core pono Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden. She has already done semi-nude (butt) shots and some very revealing gravure idol "image videos". But in May 2015 she did a hair nude (full frontal) shoot for Shukan Gendai, shot by the legendary Hajime Sawatari. He is a famous photographer but also does these hair nude shoots from time to time, such as with AV actress Yuu ...

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Fetish Fashion Tokyo (or FetishFashion.Tokyo) is a new photography book showcasing the fetish scene in Japan's capital. Released on October 10th, it features photography by Peter W Czernich and modeling from mannequin duo FEMM and Hirari Ikeda (that's her on the cover). Contributors include latex brands Kurage and Atsuko Kudo. The book is bilingual, in English and Japanese, and edited by fetish magazine Infamous Magazine. Don't expect anything hard-core in the book. From the looks of things, its focus is on latex fetish as a fashion statement more than a sexual ...

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