When Anri Sakaguchi announced her marriage to a transgender man in June, it felt like just the latest chapter in the saga of a troubled celebrity, which had already encompassed arrests, a stint in porn, and time spent working as a hostess, stripper, and call girl.
Well, that sudden announcement that attracted a lot of attention quite quickly (in part because of Sakaguchi's previous notoriety, because she still enjoys a reasonable following, and because her husband is transgender) seemed troubled early on as Sakaguchi took to social media to vent her frustration about her new life ...
The recently retired porn star Nanami Kawakami has announced her pregnancy and marriage.
The 29-year-old shared the news with fans on August 1 via social media, though she says she actually married her partner on July 7. Her due date is next January.
The announcement tweet included charming pictures at the beach, with her partner (whose face is hidden) slipping a ring on her finger and Kawakami beaming at the camera with her ring on.
Kawakami, who has been candid about the financial pitfalls of her line of work, retired at the start of 2022 after a successful career lasting her ...
Here's that rare thing: a happy ending.
Anri Sakaguchi was initially famous for, well, being famous. She was the daughter of an actress, and gained some celebrity at an early age, joining the entertainment world in the late 2000s.
But financial debts forced her into porn, and she debuted in 2016 for Muteki, and went on to star in several AV titles (going by the name Anri). She also did at least one nude photo shoot during this time.
After retiring from porn, Sakaguchi (whose real name is Mizue Nozawa) ran into some trouble with the law, being arrested twice: once for attempting to exhort ...
The former Japanese adult video star Kaho Shibuya recently sat down for a candid and insightful interview with Tokyo Weekender, where she talked about her porn career and subsequent work.
Kaho Shibuya (not to be confused with similarly busty former gravure idol Yuri Shibuya) has actually had a lot of jobs in her time, including a baseball reporter, English teacher, and adult toy reviewer.
It was this last job that led to her four-year stint in JAV. As she outlines in her cautionary book about the industry, Everything Girls Should Know About the JAV Industry, her agency pushed her into ...
Given the wide-ranging discussions now taking place about introducing a new law with major implications for the porn industry in Japan, we wanted to share a related reform proposal from a few years ago.
Given that the potential new law is intended to protect young and vulnerable performers from coercion, increase performer rights, and give them more control over how their bodies are used, we wonder if anyone is taking note of what a former adult video actress suggested back in late 2018, when the initial coercion issue was in the spotlight.
Aged 43 at the time, the retired porn star Yuri ...
Now this is what we call going out with a bang. Top Japanese adult video star Shoko Takahashi has retired from porn, as announced in April, and released her final title (MIDV-099) this month.
Of course, JAV is more than just videos, and Takasho has also put out an array of tie-in toys over the years, from onaholes to lubes and even vibrators.
To complement her last ever porn release, she has teamed up with top adult brand EXE to produce the Japanese Real Oppai Shoko Takahashi Breasts. Given that Takasho's greatest asset is her chest, and her unusual inverted nipples, this is a no-brainer ...
One of the fascinations of this blog is with the afterlives of idols, whether music, gravure, or porn. What do the hordes of women do after their (frequently brief) moment in the spotlight is over?
Kizuna Sakura was active in adult video from 2014 to 2020. Now aged 32, she has begun the next stage of her left and career by opening a Niigata-themed ramen restaurant in December 2020 in Tokyo's Suginami ward.
She funded her enterprise through an ambitious crowdfunding campaign, which included such perks as a one-on-one talk and even a "fake wedding ceremony" and one-night stay at a hot spring ...
Loosely adapted from the book by Jake Adelstein, the HBO series Tokyo Vice features nude scenes with several actors, both American and Japanese.
Legion and Fargo star Rachel Keller is semi-nude in a scene where she gets changed with her back to the camera and a weirdly uninterested man in the room with her.
The former Japanese porn star Nanami Kawakami features in a pretty explicit and satisfying nude sex scene with the series lead Ansel Elgort. The 29-year-old Kawakami, who recently retired from adult video after a decade in the industry, is shown riding Elgort with some nice shots of ...
The high-profile Japanese adult video star Shoko Takahashi has announced on social media on April 1 that she will retire from porn.
This news came out a few days ago and somehow slipped under our radar until last night. Despite the timing of the announcement, Takahashi emphasized that it's not an April Fool's joke. She has also shot down rumors that she is pregnant or getting married. Instead, she says, her motivation for retiring was the health risk that a long porn career entails.
Her official retirement release (MIDV-099) was shot at the end of last year and will come out on May ...
How much do porn stars earn? It's a gray area, though JAV is a huge industry and clearly the main stars do well for themselves.
There are often rumors about exceptional fees when high-profile women from other industries make the crossover into porn. Some of these are no doubt are just conjecture.
Back in 2013, the actress Yoko Kamon made her porn debut after a career of acting in the 1990s and then hair nude full-frontal shoots (not one but two nude photo books) in the early 2010s.
Then in her early thirties, Kamon was not a huge star but there was a fair amount of interest in her adult ...
