Fetish Festival (Feti-Fes) was held in Tokyo on Sunday January 25th at an inconspicuous venue near Harajuku.
There were 96 booths, including cosplayers, idols, bondage artists, and more, spread out over six seriously packed floors, plus a basement showing the "Underground Fetish Film Festival" screenings.
Feti-Fes was first held in January 2013, since then it has been held eight times around Japan. This festival -- the fifth in Tokyo -- was the biggest so far and there seemed to be hundreds of visitors by our estimate.
Due to legal reasons, there was no nudity allowed in the ...
Fetish Night was a special bondage and ero-cosplay event held at Shinjukku's Club axxcis in late September.
The event included DJs, BDSM gear on sale, and of course mini bondage and shibari shows.
There was even a fortune-teller using special bondage-themed Tarot cards.
There was a (fake) bukkake performance too.
This lady was offering to paint fake wounds onto your arm.
This girl was wearing a provocative t-shirt with the slogan "chopping board", a slang word for being ...
Mere days after Yuko Obuchi, the hottest woman in the Japanese Cabinet (okay, the only senior politico in Japan even remotely attractive, tended her resignation from the post of METI head, now comes another scandal perhaps with the potential to sink another powerful minister in the government.
Obuchi's replacement, Yoichi Miyazawa, spent some of his "expenses" in an "SM Bar" in Hiroshima City, it has emerged. The money was spent in the BDSM club in September 2010 but has only emerged today with a political expenses report, which recorded a bill for ¥18,230 (around $200) for a session at ...
Admit it. You had the fantasy too. When you were a young boy (or girl) you wanted to have an affair with your (much older) school teacher.
Some lucky kids get to make that dream a reality.
But sometimes this isn't all it's cracked up to be. The older woman may not be quite the lover you imagine.
Japanese media is reporting a pretty shocking story about a single mother in Hyogo Prefecture who took advantage of a young schoolboy. But not in the way you'd think.
At the time Tamae Okino was 43 years old and she lived with her 14-year-old daughter, who recruited young runaways and ...
Forget Fifty Shades, sado-masochism infiltrates all walks of life in Japan, it seems. Including anime cover hug pillows.
Hug pillows (dakimakura) are of course the pillows designed to be "hugged" to help you through the night. Sometimes they are innocent enough (like comfort blankets) but often it's a euphemism for a type of sex doll, complete with slots for masturbator sleeves. And naturally, there are lots of cool covers to go on these hug dolls, especially moe ones of anime characters.
But the this month saw a strange trend sweeping the Twittersphere in Japan.
Turning your ...
Schoolgirls, lesbians and bondage. Put these together and you might just have box office gold.
At least, that's what the producers of the film adaptation of "Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden" are hoping.
The low budget movie is exactly those three things. Originally a cult manga by Makoto Fukami, it stars Noriko Kijima and Yuki Mamiya as student members of an official school club that is actually a BDSM circle.
Cue lots of groaning and young schoolgirls looking angsty.
What starts off as an exploration of pain and submission (the students are actually "training" to become ...
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" ...
Designer Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects) has made the kind of seats that we definitely want to have in the Tokyo Kinky office.
"Shibari" is a series of black and white foam seats inspired by the classic art of Japanese rope bondage.
Nagasaka is showing his creations at this year's Milano Salone. Note the rope keeping the bulging seat in shape. Design-wise, it's a nice contrast of smooth curving rubber and sharp jagged lines.
There seem to be four seats, each slightly different and in two colors.
The foam seats are covered in rubber coating, which is of course not ...
Be careful what is being poked into your genitals. You might just be losing your life blood... literally.
Though Kyoto might have a reputation for being the sophisticated old capital of Japan, there's plenty of kinkiness under the surface.
One of these is needle play. Tokyo Reporter had a nice, intriguing report on a recent episode involving a Kyoto bondage mistress.
Between June and September, Yuka Fujisawa, 43, is alleged to have used needles and syringes to take blood from the genitals of three male customers, including a 52-year-old office worker from Hyogo Prefecture, while ...
Anyone who shares our love of the kinky gets our endorsement. And when it's a local, we are especially happy to tell the Web about them.
Japanese photographer Issei Suda has paid tribute to the kinky world of Japanese bondage and BDSM with a new photography book, "Rubber".
Place M gallery is exhibiting highlights of the new publication until December 9th.
Suda has frequently turned his lens on the female form and this new collection is perhaps his most erotic ...
