Porn star Nanami Ogura returns as Nanami Kodama (after alleged stint as sex worker)
March 29, 2024
/ Tadashi Anahori
Porn star Nanami Ogura (小倉七海) may still be just 21 years old but has already amassed a prodigious output of releases since making her debut with S1 No. 1 Style in September 2021, including multiple bestselling AVs as well as two print photo books and several digital ones.
But that all seemed like a flash in the pan when she suddenly announced her retirement in October 2022, leading some to speculate it was due to the constraints placed on the JAV industry since the introduction of new porn legislation.
Thankfully, Ogura's retirement didn't last and she was soon back, under a ...
Japan’s teachers turn to host clubs and prostitution to make ends meet
May 11, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Tokyo is currently facing a serious shortage of public school teachers, with the blame being put on the long hours and low pay.
Could another reason for the shortfall be that young teachers keep getting arrested?!
According to an article by Friday, money trouble is pushing some educators into a spiral of addiction and leading them to make risky life choices that land them in trouble with the police.
In February, a male junior high school teacher in his twenties was arrested in Nagoya after making the mistake of asking a female plainclothes police officer if she wanted to go to a host club. ...
Scientists build sexual contact network from reviews of soaplands nationwide
April 26, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Here at Tokyo Kinky, we pride ourselves on how we strive to keep up with the latest research and fieldwork. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.
And so when we see an academic article titled "Exploring sexual contact networks by analyzing a nationwide commercial-sex review website," it's a no-brainer whether or not we read. Even if it's written by ecologists.
Though framed in academese, the article is essentially looking at reviews for soaplands on a website that covers 66% of establishments in Japan (784 soaplands) and has more than 2 million members and information on 38,964 sex ...
An interview with a soapland worker
September 12, 2022
/ Tadashi Anahori
Following its recent interview with pink film softcore porn star Chisa Hasegawa, the awesome Substack blog-newsletter Tokyo Calling has put out another cracker -- and we are very jealous. We don't know how Gianni Simone pulled it off but he managed to land an interview with a genuine soapland worker, and it's a sensitive and enlightening read.
Accompanied by photos by Eric Rechsteiner, the intrepid Simone pays a visit to one of the many soaplands (a kind of bathhouse-style brothel) in Senzoku, the Tokyo area formerly known as Yoshiwara -- the city's most popular and renowned red-light ...
Tokyo female tax bureau employee punished for soapland side job to pay for host club habit
February 4, 2022
/ Tadashi Anahori
It's almost time to declare taxes in Japan, so we were particularly amused by this story in the news. Tokyo Taxation Bureau has announced the punishment of a 27-year-old female employee at one of its branches for breaching its rules on civil servants having side jobs.
The nature of the side job probably didn't help.
The unnamed woman was actually working at a soapland as a sex worker. For her troubles, she has been handed down a nine-month suspension, the bureau announced at the end of January.
She was working at soaplands from October 2020 to January 2022 at weekday nights and on days ...
Reduced income from porn and prostitution forces Tokyo college student into compensated dating
November 12, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
The tabloid magazine Weekly Bunshun has published an interview with someone they give the alias Yuna Ishihara, who is apparently a 24-year-old student at Tokyo College of Music.
But she also appears in adult video and works at a soapland in Yoshiwara, Tokyo's long-established red-light district in the east of the city.
But due to the pandemic, her income of ¥900,000 (around $9,000) a month has massively decreased, leading her to take up papakatsu.
As reported before, this is a euphemism for compensated dating with older men (sugar daddies). The principle is hardly new but the term has ...
Porn star Rika Tsubaki releases first adult toy, Muriyari Gokubuto Mouth Onahole
February 17, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
We are currently enjoying the delights of 21-year-old G-cup porn goddess Rika Tsubaki (椿りか).
Naturally, we are doing this courtesy of videos we find online and DVDs we can rent from the good folks at Tsutaya, whose adult section at the Shinjuku-Kabukicho store is superb.
But we want more than our eyes and hand can give.
For those times, we reach for the Muriyari Gokubuto Rika Tsubaki Mouth Onahole, a new toy from A-One and available globally via our trusty friends at Kanojo Toys.
Correct us if we're wrong, but we think this is Rika Tsubaki's first official collaboration adult ...
Luxury Sex Chair brings infinite world of soapland couple play pleasure into your bathroom (and beyond)
April 12, 2019
/ Tadashi Anahori
Who doesn't like to get clean? And getting clean intimately with someone else is even more fun, hence the soapland is such a wonderful experience. Seriously, you haven't lived until you've tried a nurunuru massage at least once.
One of the features of a soapland can be a stool for the male client to sit on while his female partner attends to his special region. The stool is designed to allow particularly close access to his under-area.
We spotted our friends at Kanojo Toys offering a great update on this seat: the Luxury Sex Chair. It's deluxe but also minimal.
The new style of ...
Top Japanese soapland hooker Asuka Aida makes porn debut
October 23, 2018
/ Tadashi Anahori
Every month in Japanese adult video brings many new porn debuts (shinjin). In October alone, we've spotted debuts from the svelte Mari Sano (佐野まり), 42-year-old jukujo mother (with milky breasts) Miyuki Nishino (西野美幸), the sporty Mana Tsuchiya (土谷まな), college girl Hinami-chan (ひなみちゃん), and Chihiro Konoha (木葉ちひろ). The latter two are purported to be a mere 20 years old, like Ichika Hoshimiya, who also released her own impressive first AV title this month.
How is an avid AV fan meant to keep up? And that's just the major debuts, let alone all the ...
Google Street View captures half-naked Japanese woman at soapland entrance
October 8, 2018
/ Tadashi Anahori
It's one of the famous perks of the digital age: all kinds of funny things can be spotted on Google Street View for those willing to trawl through all the images.
Thankfully, there's already plenty of websites out there detailing the images of people wearing strange clothes or doing weird things. Of course, Japan has its own memorable examples and the local version of Street View even lets you take a virtual tour of love hotels.
Well, you can now spot something decidedly kinky down in Wakayama Prefecture.
Google Street View has unwittingly captured a woman arriving (or leaving?) a ...