We came across this story of a “super fan” and his love for schoolgirl Manaka Takane. Of course, Manaka Takane is a character from the Love Plus virtual dating game by Konami. And she and a special fan went on a trip for the summer. They chose as their date destination Atami, the hot spring…

A recent survey of 1,000 boys and girls in Japan aged between 17 and 19 revealed that only about a quarter had sexual experience, though more girls did than boys, but girls had more negative impressions of sex than their male counterparts. The survey was conducted by the Nippon Foundation, which put up a detailed…

In a series of brief yet enlightening street interviews, actual Japanese girls reveal their answers to the personal questions we all want to ask. How often do Japanese girls want to have sex? What are the signs that a Japanese girl wants to have sex with you? How much do you Japanese like having sex?…

‘Tis the season for celebration, after all, and Tenga has reached a major milestone. And a very profitable one at that: 100 million sales of its Tenga Cup series. The Tenga Cup 100 Million Sales Commemoration Set is a special release to celebrate this phenomenal achievement. As regular readers know, we love writing about Tenga…

The Taimanin is one of the most successful recent eroge franchises. The series by LiLiTH has spawned various spin-offs about the sexy exploits of near-future female ninjas (kunoichi) Asagi Igawa, Sakura Igawa, Yukikaze Mizuki, and more. This includes many adult toys like masturbators and lubricants, made by PPP. It has also been adapted by adult…

We already know that young people and sexuality claims that they are becoming less interested in sex. A new book, though, attempts to get behind the sensational headlines and probe the real reasons and implications of this. Drawing on data from the six-yearly surveys conducted by the Japanese Association for Sex Education since 1974 —…

We love Tsubomi. The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so. A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It’s in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles. A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese…

University classrooms can be dull places and most of the time, our college teacher friends tell us, the students are fast asleep during lectures. But not so at Doshisha University in Kyoto. At least, not at Room 402 in the Ryoshinkan Hall. Because that’s where some students observed a female hottie having sex with a…

Asian men don’t get a good deal in Hollywood. When was the last time that you saw an Asian leading man in a Western movie treated as a sex symbol in the same way as a white actor? Leela Rose set out to challenge this. We sympathise. Many foreign female residents in Japan face problems:…

Once again we have an alarming announcement from Japan’s health ministry that the number of syphilis patients in Japan has gone up. This has become a regular news item of late, prompting the ministry to launch a special team to investigate ways to combat the spread of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Hospital data from…