Tenga is not only one of the top adult brands in Japan, it is also one of the most savvy in terms of its marketing strategies. It is known for adopting headline-grabbing, viral publicity tactics, not least launching a rocket into space.
But sometimes these are more sincere.
Tenga has provided a gamer called Jeni (or Shunya Hatakeyama) with sex toys after the brand heard that he uses Tenga toys to cushion his homemade chin controller. Jeni has muscular dystrophy and uses his chin to operate a stick for playing games. He has been a wheelchair user since second grade and finds empowerment in ...
Tenga is, as regular readers will know, one of Japan's leading adult toy brands, and surely the one that has the most success overseas, helped by its very clean and universal design (a far cry from the kind of highly Japanese style of hentai illustrations you find on box art on releases by Tama Toys, Toy's Heart, and so on).
A Tenga-related topic we often like to discuss here on this blog are the various marketing campaigns that the company does, such as the rocket it launched into space or its hat for dispensing tissues.
In addition, Tenga also does serious research related to sex and ...
This is something to make your eyes pop out. It might disgust or amaze you, depending on your level of tolerance.
The Chastity Daruma Ridge by Libido Lab is a collaboration with the mangaka Shiruka Bakaudon (知るかバカうどん), known for his dark and violent comics.
It features the torso of a slender Japanese girl with almost prepubescent breasts and... chopped-off limbs. Now whether your winced at that or smirked perhaps reveals a fair bit about your sexual proclivities.
It is apparently inspired by Wu Zetian's or Lu Zhi's method of torturing and killing rivals. The ...
This is something we don't talk about enough on this blog: sex and the disabled.
Luckily, the non-profit NOIR is doing work to raise awareness of the issue.
Since the release of film The Sessions, the idea of how disabled people can have sex drives has gained more positive traction in America.
What about Japan?
Of course, sex dolls were once available as "rental" and some of the main clients were disabled men who could not have sex otherwise.
In Japan, the film Caterpillar took the theme of a disabled war veteran and his sex drive to an extreme.
More recently, the ...
The Japan Times published a recent article about the fascinating -- and inspiring -- tale of Rie Saito.
Saito, who lost her hearing at age 1, plans to run in the April 26 election in Tokyo’s Kita Ward Assembly as a Nippon wo Genki ni Suru Kai (Party to Revitalize Japan) candidate. A best-selling author who was once the No. 1 hostess at a club in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Saito was known as the hitsudan hostess who used writing to communicate with her customers.
So this hottie would use paper to keep her patrons happy in Ginza and encourage them to buy her drinks.
Being a ...
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Here's an interesting eye-opener into lesser-known side to the Japanese erotic.
Minorities and Sex: Strictly Personal Way of Love is a new film directed by Makoto Sasaki about sex and minorities, a topic mostly ignored by mainstream Japanese society.
It will be screened from February 14th at Uplink in Shibuya, Tokyo's top venue for non-mainstream cinema.
The meta-film is part fiction, part documentary. Divided into three parts focusing on different characters who are social minorities.
While obviously filmed on a low budget, we love the sound of this.
Here's the ...
Way back in 2005 there was a boom for a certain kind of sex doll. Well, to be precise, a sex doll service. Sure, Orient Industry's amazing love dolls, durable plush dolls and the like have been popular for many, many years.
But not everyone could afford to have their own luxury lifestyle companion. Nor did they necessary have the space. Perhaps they lived with their parents or with their wives and families. Or perhaps they were just unsure about the whole arrangement and wanted to give it a "test drive" first.
Well, trust Japanese consumer service to come up with a solution for this niche. ...
A new film explores the feelings of war guilt for Japanese people. Caterpillar is about a soldier, haunted by his experiences of torture and rape in China during the war, who returns to Japan a hero... but without any legs or arms.
Though he is torn apart internally by his feelings of guilt for his actions in Asia, he is still very keen of screwing his wife! She obliges like a good woman was expected back then (and still now!), despite the obvious practical difficulties of having sex with a severely disabled man.
The director, Koji Wakamatsu, actually got his break in the industry ...
