The growing problem of syphilis in Japan is not new: we’ve been writing about it for years now. But it simples that it won’t get better any time soon. Just when you think cases can’t rise anymore or that the coronavirus pandemic would at least slow its relentless spread, along comes the latest batch of…

Uber Eats (and similar services) has become a part of daily life in Tokyo, with its bike couriers often seen shuttling around the city making deliveries. You know that something is an established part of Japanese pop culture when it gets its own parody onahole. Plus it has inspired fantasies of hot girls bringing you…

As reported recently on this blog, one of the unexpected outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic has been how the ubiquity of face masks has merged with an existing fetish for used underwear to beget a whole new brand of the adult market: used face masks. However, though schoolgirls and housewives are apparently benefitting financially from…

Shibari, the Japanese art of rope bondage, is a sexual subculture, something confined to certain clubs and establishments, right? Wrong. As one event proved, shibari (also known as kinbaku) is also very visible in the streets of Tokyo. On May 7, Hajime Kinoko, probably the most successful and well-known shibari rope artist in Japan, created…

We fondly remember the days when it was relatively easy to visit happening bars. Sadly, those times when such establishments were widely known and could be frequented in central areas like Shinjuku or Shibuya now feel distant, largely due to a police crackdown that closed many down or scared others off. Further proof that the…

There’s a reason that a lot of love hotel rooms have mirrors installed. Who doesn’t want to watch themselves having sex? Following on from our popular post last year about leaked sex selfies by amateur couples at Japanese love hotels, we present another roundup of nude sex selfies by couples taken in front of a…

People have arrested the CEO of famous Japanese secondhand book store chain Mandarake as well as four employees in connection with the sale of obscene material. Best known for manga but also offering collectibles, doujinshi, and anime toys, Mandarake was selling so-called “vinyl books,” a term referring to pornographic photo books from the 1970s and…

After much legal wrangling and media speculation, Japan is apparently set to approve the abortion pill, but it would still require women to seek their partner’s consent beforehand. We have to be careful here to draw a distinction between the morning-after pill (which is already available in Japan, but a prescription from a doctor is…

Our post yesterday featuring the confessions of a foreign female about compensated dating in Tokyo led us to this case study (from early 2021) on legal website Bengo4, which sets out to answer a curious question: What happens to your assets if you divorce your wife for compensated dating? According to the author (a lawyer),…

Maki Makie (マキエマキ) has been working since the early 1990s as a freelance commercial photographer. Now aged 56, she gained a whole new following when she began taking self-portraits in 2015 and repositioning herself as a “selfie jukujo” (自撮り熟女) model. This fame has had some unexpected consequences, as she revealed in a long interview with…