The overseas media tends to report on the Japanese and sex as one of either two extremes: “No sex please, we’re Japanese” — i.e., a totally sexless and sex-starved nation — or as a culture of fetishes and weird sex, with a gigantic sex industry (which is quasi-legal) and even more gigantic porn industry (twice…

When will these old geezers learn? If you wanna get kinky, go to a professional. Don’t take the matter into your own hand. There are lots of services offering used panties, dirty or clean, from vending machines to mainstream stores. No, this man wanted to do things his way. On March 9th Chiba police announced…

A new survey by Ashley Madison, the infidelity social networking site, suggests that Japan isn’t just the world’s best exporter of electronics and automobiles… it leads the world in making selfie porn too. While Japanese girls are often known for being shyer and more demure, don’t let that fool you. According to Ashley Madison users,…

All over the news right now is the story of a “massage parlor” in Yokohama that not employed high school girls, but employed them to place the clients in wrestling holds for the kinky high it gave the men. The manager Masayuki Kyoya (36) was arrested for violating the labor laws. The girls would go…

We love it when an interesting fetish gets some mainstream attention. Sure, sometimes this can be sensationalist and tread a fine line between mockery and awe, but anything that opens up the conversation about alternative sexuality is got to be a good thing in our book. Especially if it involves Japan. Zentai (short for zentai…

We love Japanese sex dolls. They are brilliantly made, always inventive, and have spawned all sorts of interesting social phenomena such as sex doll magazines, sex doll rental services, and more. But this might be going a bit far. Can a sex doll be a music idol? Well, they can’t sing — not even lip-synch…

We spend a lot of time indulging in images of hot girls and the like here on Tokyo Kinky. What about the guys? Well, if you’ve ever wondered about the life of the male host and his world of wining and dining female clients, now is your chance to find out more. Vice Japan have…

Designer Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects) has made the kind of seats that we definitely want to have in the Tokyo Kinky office. “Shibari” is a series of black and white foam seats inspired by the classic art of Japanese rope bondage. Nagasaka is showing his creations at this year’s Milano Salone. Note the rope keeping…

We all dream of sleeping with or dating a porn star. Some people get to do it for real. V6 is a Japanese male idol group whose primary job these days is to have sex with Japan’s top female celebrities. Hard work if you can get it. Go Morita (35) has been snapped with his…

Another Vice Japan short film here, this time following Kanae Murakami, a 20-year-old hostess plying her trade in Ginza’s district of high-class clubs. For all those who have sympathetic views of hostesses as girls who have to put up with drinking a lot with ugly men in smoky bars and who are only a fine…