What kind of female body do Japanese men and women find most attractive?
It's a big question and a popular common one. Judging by what we tend to see all around us every day in advertising and in the media, "slim and slender" would seem the obvious answer.
But is it?
There is currently something of a trend for sporty and active-looking women.
Certain "strong" and muscular women have also attracted a following, not least baseball gravure idol Ami Imamura.
And we've been saying for years that curvy ladies are hotter. Our favorites include Haruka Ayase, Saaya, Ayaka Sayama, and ...
Have Japanese breasts reached a tipping point?
That's what underwear brand Triumph is suggesting in its latest Lingerie White Paper, which indicates a continuing trend towards larger busts.
Sales for its A-cup bras have fallen from 58.6% in 1980 to just 4.1% in 2016
The results for the last two years are tallied below:
A-cup sales (2015): 4.7%
A-cup sales (2016): 4.1%
B-cup sales (2015): 19.5%
B-cup sales (2016): 19%
C-cup sales (2015): 26.1%
C-cup sales (2016): 25.6%
D-cup sales (2015): 24.8%
D-cup sales (2016): 25%
E-cup sales (2015): 16.7%
E-cup sales (2016): ...
The question of Japanese bush is one that preoccupies much of our waking life.
Too much or too little? For women who obsess about shaving almost every follicle elsewhere on the slender bodies, the bush is often an oasis of relatively unkempt hirsute charm: allowed to bloom and grow. It's thus sometimes a shock (pleasant or not) to encounter women who trim, wax or fully shave down there (paipan), even though this is very common elsewhere in the world.
But what about the guys?
Panasonic is suggesting that more and more men in Japan are seriously grooming their bodies, including ...
Recently it was "Kiss Day" in Japan. Given how little you see kissing in public here, perhaps it's pointless to have a designated day like that.
That being said, apparently Japanese girls like kissing.
In fact, 79.5% of respondents to a (somewhat bizarre) survey said they did, so it's safe to presume your date would like a smooch. It's just all about when and where.
51.8% of women said they had kissed someone they weren't dating (yet), proving it pays at least some of the time to lunge at a club or bar. (Curiously, the number was lower for guys: 58% of them said they had never ...
How much do women working as prostitutes in Japan earn? Regardless of your nocturnal habits, it's no doubt a question no doubt many of us have asked at various times.
Grow As People (GAP) is a nonprofit group that supports sex workers and it just released a new report.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it found that wages decrease with the age of the workers (the opposite of the classic Japanese corporate model).
It based its report on an online survey conducted in 2015 with 377 women working at Kanto-area "delivery health" brothels (fuzoku), which dispatches call girls to love ...
Another week and another survey brings grim news about sex in Japan.
Following the news wire article a few days ago about 26.9% of idols being sexually harassed that has been making the rounds of various English-language publications, now comes another one about that perennial favorite: sexless Japan.
Japan seems to be, if we believe the media, a sexless and barren land -- or a hyper-sexualised place of weird fetishes and mountains of porn. What is the truth? Both at the same time? Neither? Or something more nuanced in between?
Needless to say, a blog like this hardly paints the best ...
A Japanese newswire article about sexual harassment among aspiring models and idols is doing the rounds, confirming what we've been saying for years.
Apparently, a government survey has shown that 26.9% of Japanese young female models and starlets have received "unwanted requests for sexually oriented photo shoots."
This comes hot on the heels of last year's controversy about widespread coercion in the porn industry.
In the first survey by the Cabinet Office on sexual abuse against young women, 7.7% of respondents had been offered contracts to become models or starlets.
Asked about ...
Half of Japanese married couples sleep separately, according to a survey by VenusTrap.
The online magazine asked 400 married men if they slept in the same room as their wives.
50.2% of men said they haven't slept in the same room as their wives since getting married.
The top reason for this was that the couple were now "sexless". 40.8% of the men who said "no" to the first question gave this as the cause for sleeping separately. "It is tough to sleep next to a woman you can't have sex with," some men said. Others were told by their wives, "If we're not going to do it, then we don't ...
Yet another article is claiming Japan is a sexless wasteland of virgins and singletons.
In this case, the bold claim is that "almost half of young men and women are virgins".
These articles are perennials, loved by editors and journalists -- but treated with some disdain by old hands. The other common trope is that is a kinky wonderland, full of very fetish and craziness imaginable. Perhaps the two myths are not as incompatible as they sound.
Personally, we sit on the fence with this one.
A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70% of unmarried men and ...
More moaning and groaning about "sexless Japan" in the Japan Times, this time in a piece titled For many young Japanese, marriage — and sex — are low priorities.
It highlights an 18-year-old who "winces whenever he imagines himself dating a girl".
Stats maketh the truth. The article has a nice survey to back up its theory of under-sexed youngsters: 74.3% of people in their twenties are not in a relationship, compared to 50% in 1996.
Another poll found that 40% of people in their twenties are "not looking for a relationship". Meanwhile, yet another study by the Japan Family ...
