Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), the Japanese “vagina artist” accused of obscenity, has always been very business-savvy. She has released plenty of artworks as cheap and accessible merchandise, not to mention manga, books, and even a “rental service” and sex toy. (She needs the money not least to pay for her legal fees!) Now we are delighted…

How would you like to be the inspiration for a sex doll? Japan’s premier maker of sex dolls, Orient Industry, is currently recruiting models to be the face of the next love doll. Your face and other body parts could well serve as the original for the next beautiful luxury companion by Orient Industry. You…

People in their forties and older can get romantic too, you know. And we know that older Japanese women still look amazing. To celebrate the 50th volume of Tasogare Ryuuseigun (Like Shooting Stars in Twilight) by Kenji Hirokane, a popular manga (adapted for TV), Shogakukan has created a free giveaway promo item: free playing cards….

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…