Nippon.com, normally a fairly austere and academic online publication, has published an article by sociologist Suzumi Suzuki, in which she discusses her fieldwork about adult video and role play in the porn world. Suzuki starts out with a very positive view of her subject matter: AV actresses are surprisingly articulate when asked to talk about…

After the recent court ruling against the underage idol who “broke” her contract and had a relationship, and the ruling in favor of the hostess who had a long-running affair with a client, there have been some interesting legal developments in Japan of late. Now a woman who refused to take part in a porn…

So apparently someone has figured out how unlock the security of your phone — using recognition of your butthole. Go Hatori already proved that it was possible to unlock your iPhone with your nipple. But now he was gone one step further — or backwards, if you like. For reasons surely unfathomable to the majority…

Evangelion and Rei Ayanami is one the pinnacles of otaku fantasy. So anything involving lingerie maker Peach John and Evangelion is surely going to get some juices flowing, especially when the model is haafu Elaiza Ikeda. Behold: the Peach John Evangelion Eva lingerie. There are five colors available for the Peach John Evangelion Eva bra…

In the latest development in Japan’s attempts to deal with the phenomenon of revenge porn, things have taken an unusual turn. We readily associate revenge porn with men — but female partners can also be vengeful. Japanese police have arrested a 25-year-old woman who attempted to exhort money from an ex-lover. She cut his clothes…

We’ve long been talking about the apparent imminent demise of fake deai-kei (“encounter”) websites, which promise liaisons with members of the opposite sex but seem mostly just to take your money. There seem to be new cases of fake sites appearing in the news every few weeks. Surely, with such bad publicity, people will just…

da fuck, a project by French musician Marc Durand, has created an album featuring only sounds taken from the porn catalogue of AV star Mihane Yuuki (aka Mihane Yuki). Literally “not one external sound” was used for the album 美羽ゆうきに、僕のすべての愛敬。 (All my love for Mihane Yuuki.). Actually, it’s not what you think. If you’re expecting…

Let this be a warning to all aspiring adult entrepreneurs out there. The manager of an Osaka restaurant has been arrested for making and selling pornographic DVDs from an apartment. Shoji Matsumoto (46) sold 46 DVDs to a Saitama man in his forties for ¥7,000 ($58) in July. Matsumoto started a website to sell his…

Every year lots of wacky and sometimes awesome tech gets showcased at CEATEC, the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, at Makuhari Messe. This year we had laundry-folding robots, among other projects. ROHM Semiconductor and Techmac presented the Tokimeki Sensor, which can apparently identify the exact moment someone falls in love. Optical sensors are able to…

Rie Miyazawa’s photo book Santa Fe came out in 1991, making the hair nude photo-book genre very famous. Santa Fe was a huge hit for Rie Miyazawa and photographer Kishin Shinoyama. It then became popular for young stars to announce their maturity through hair nude shoots — plus a way to relaunch their career, as…