When does an orgy become a crime? If it's group sex among consenting adults, there should be no issue, right? That's today's legal conundrum. One man in Japan found himself arrested for hosting an orgy (in Japanese, ranko party). So what was his crime? Strangely enough, it was fraud. He had booked a hotel room in Fukuoka for two people, but then ended up with eleven guests (eight men, three women) in the room in January. He should have paid for eleven guests to stay, but only paid for two, hence his arrest. The man recruited participants in the orgy online. There was the possibility ...

In August, members of the Japanese national basketball team were sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace after being caught paying for sex in Jakarta. It propelled the ethics of paying for sex into the headlines. Asian Boss, who previously posted interesting videos like interviews with former porn stars Emiri Okazaki and Taka Kato, here interviewed Japanese people on the streets of Tokyo to gauge their opinions on the world's oldest profession. The video was posted a few weeks ago but we only spotted it yesterday. Nonetheless, it's a timeless topic (at least in our world), so we ...

It's one of the Japanese entertainment world's worst-kept secrets that minor music and gravure idols moonlight as prostitutes for various kinds of sex shops or services. Sometimes this precedes their more mainstream bikini modeling careers; sometimes it comes after, when they get too "old" to attract offers of photo books and magazine shoots. And often it runs parallel and you get some very, very lucky customers indeed. It has come to light that minor pop idol Kokoro Haruno has been one of the notorious moonlighters, the revelation of which possibly caused her agency to sack her and ...