Famous (or possibly infamous) Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, has weighed in on the issue of adult video censorship. Japanese adult video, despite being possibly the biggest porn industry in the world, is censored: no genitals are shown. This is a strange workaround to avoid prosecution under the obscenity law that was introduced to Japan in the Meiji era. The same policy is used in softcore porn and mainstream cinema, even if the nudity is not in a sex scene. In a Japanese movie, the makers will simply shoot in a way to avoid genitals. If it's a foreign film, they will ...

We were waiting with bated breath and they delivered: Tenga, Japan's top adult brand, has blasted off to the edge of space! The whole launch of the Tenga Rocket -- part of the Space Tenga project implemented with such partners as entrepreneur Takafumi Horie -- was broadcast live online. The MOMO6 rocket left terra firma on July 31 from the launch site in Hokkaido, achieving speeds of around 92 km some four minutes after launch and succeeding in releasing its payload. It marks the first such space launch by a private enterprise in Japan. As previously reported, the payload was a ...

Tenga, the designer Japanese adult brand who reinvented masturbation toys for men, has extraterrestrial ambitions. As reported earlier this year, Tenga hopes to launch a branded rocket into space in partnership with Takafumi Horie's civilian spaceflight company, Interstellar Technologies. This is an insanely expensive publicity campaign -- the latest in a long-running series of original stunts and gimmicks by the adult brand to attract attention. It has certainly succeeded this time, generated a ton of ink for its efforts. The actual 10-meter (33-feet) rocket was unveiled last week. ...

Space, the final frontier for masturbation? Tenga is not just content merely with producing some of the most sophisticated and best-designed Japanese adult toys, and achieving the distinction as pretty much the sole Japanese sex toy line to have global distribution in its own right, the brand also continues to market its products in unique and fun ways. The latest iteration of this is Tenga Rocket, a project that sees brand founder Koichi Matsumoto in the same territory as other captains of industry like Richard Branson and Elon Musk. Tenga Rocket is pretty much what it sounds like: a ...

It's election season, which always brings out the weirdos all competing to be the next governor of Tokyo. On the same day, there are also by-elections in two of Tokyo's special wards and two other districts to select Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly representatives to make up for assembly members who are standing down for some reason. So far we have seen one candidate dressed in anime cosplay to promote his campaign. The same candidate, Teruki Goto, once had a poster that featured his half-naked body. The much-maligned Abenomasks -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's personally launched initiative that ...

The long awaited porn producing debut of Horiemon you porn freaks (or should I say we...) have been waiting for, ...