The Japanese summer is long and brutal: once the cooler, somewhat sticky rainy season ends in July, the weather is scorching through September, coupled with intense humidity.
The temperatures mean that people dress lightly, which means more young female flesh on display if you are wandering the streets of a big city.
If you're anything like us, this gets you horny. (All the amazing photo books with full-frontal nudity coming out don't help either.) But squeezing one out -- let alone full sex -- in such conditions is not always a pleasant experience, even with the air conditioning on full ...
Our friends over at Kanojo Toys, the internet's largest source of Japanese adult items shipped globally, are having a sale for Valentine's Day.
Starting this week and running through Valentine's Day, you can get 20% off any order with the (appropriately chosen) promo code "Love."
Since this is the season for romance and giving gifts, you could check out their range of toys for couples and for women -- and REALLY surprise (and please) your partner this Valentine's Day.
On the other hand, we've always been big believers in the idea that Valentine's Day should be about self-love, and Kanojo ...
It's become one of the staple elements of the Valentine's Day season in Japan.
While the department store tills ring cheerfully with the sound of yen being exchanged for boxes of chocolates in all shapes and sizes, perhaps especially so in Japan where there is a somewhat redundant custom of giving chocolates not just to your partner but also all your coworkers, we are always pleased to see what Tenga does this year.
We can't remember when they started doing it but we love the idea that the country's most successful adult brand, which is best known for its male masturbation toys, produces ...
Known for creating the most stylish and best-designed adult toys in Japan (and the world), Tenga is also one of the most innovative when it comes to marketing.
It loves to make seasonal products and campaigns, and we don't just mean holding a sale or putting together some themed packaging.
For example, it regularly offers chocolates in Tenga Cups for Valentine's.
It's currently offering a special New Year's Tenga set, inspired by Japanese traditions.
The brand has sold such sets since 2017. This year's comes in a wooden box with decorative paper, housing a Premium Tenga Original Vacuum ...
Sure, if you want attractive design in the universal sense, you turn to Tenga. But if you want real innovation -- design that makes you sit back and go, huh?! -- you look to Tama Toys.
From grenades to bullets and toilet bowls, there's almost nothing that Tama Toys won't take inspiration from in its noble quest to product sex toys that feel great.
Its latest groundbreaking design is the Grasp Heart Masturbator, which, as the name suggests, resembles a human heart.
Despite the red color, there's no blood or romance. Just pure pleasure.
You lube up and slide your cock between the left and ...
It seems that Father Sexmas read our wish list!
Tenga, the Apple of the adult industry, is not content to sit on its well-deserved laurels, but is continuing to produce exciting new releases -- just in time for Christmas.
We spotted the somewhat strangely named Tenga Puffy mini series of masturbation toys and are excited to give them a try.
Essentially, they are visually cup-style masturbators (like the Tenga Cup or Flip Hole series) but with the tactility of gel sleeves (like, say, the recent Tenga Bobble series).
The cup is fully squeezable and employs the latest technology to reduce ...
After making its name with series like the Egg, the Cup, and the Flip Hole that are manipulated by hand, Tenga has been gradually increasing its lineup of powered masturbation toys.
The Tenga Vacuum Controller came out a few years ago and is essentially an attachment that increases the vacuum sensation and tightness of the cup with which you combine it. It then continued this concept with the Gyro Roller and the Flip Zero Electronic, a vibrating version of the classic Flip Hole.
Tenga, the Apple of the Japanese adult industry, is never happy to sit on its laurels counting the yen that comes ...
Tenga is, as regular readers will know, one of Japan's leading adult toy brands, and surely the one that has the most success overseas, helped by its very clean and universal design (a far cry from the kind of highly Japanese style of hentai illustrations you find on box art on releases by Tama Toys, Toy's Heart, and so on).
A Tenga-related topic we often like to discuss here on this blog are the various marketing campaigns that the company does, such as the rocket it launched into space or its hat for dispensing tissues.
In addition, Tenga also does serious research related to sex and ...
It's Valentine's Day season, which means one thing in the adult industry: Tenga chocolates.
Yes, the Apple of the Japanese sex toys industry has established a curious side line in chocolate sweets. It began in 2019 and continued in 2020. We're not sure what happened in 2021, but the good news is that Tenga is back in 2022 with three new Tenga Chocolate products.
In keeping with the maxim that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, the basic premise remains the same: the chocolates come in packaging that resembles a classic Tenga Cup and the individually wrapped chocolates themselves looked like ...
You've perhaps heard about the Tenga Pocket Hat. Maybe you got the Tenga iPhone case.
But what about Tenga shoes? Yes, that's what self-professed performer Bokunou (ぼく脳, literally "my brain") has crafted, using the insides of a Tenga toy -- the inner coating that provides such awesome stimulation on your cock -- as unique decoration for the midsoles on a customized pair of sneakers.
The sneakers are a simple gray and white, with "TENGA" written in red. It's not clear which Tenga toy he used as the material for the footwear, but the white color suggests it came from several Tenga ...
