In all the recent fuse on this blog about gravure idols, photo books, and nude sex scenes on The Naked Director, it's been a while since we did a post like this. Please indulge us while we take a trip down amateurs' lane. Couples in Japan visiting a love hotel for an intimate session may often pose for a nude selfie in front of a mirror to mark the occasion either before or after they get down to action. Inevitably in such a day and age, these leak online and others get to view and enjoy the images. For the ethically dubious purpose of edifying our readers, we have brought together a ...

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Preparations continue for the 2021 Olympic Games, despite the ongoing pandemic and public opposition, and various downsizing measures that have divorced the events almost completely from the host city. In the latest development, the athletes will have to endure many rules and restrictions on their activities at the Olympic Village during their stay. This includes regulations on fraternization and leaving their rooms. Organizers don't even want athletes eating in groups. Or sleeping together, it seems. Famously, the Olympic Village serves to facilitate a lot of sex: thousands of athletes who ...

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Old strip clubs were already on a downward, possibly terminal spiral even before corona hit. The pandemic then wiped out the intimacy-based business model for all kinds of strip shows, not to mention hostess and host clubs and even fuzoku sex services. But perhaps especially the vintage burlesque and strip clubs were more precarious than others, being frequented by older clientele and located often in small premises (and in regional areas). We already reported in one long-running strip club in Ehime's struggle to stay afloat during the crisis. There are relatively few such old clubs left in ...

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Famously, or maybe rather infamously, bukkake is a word with a more general meaning and another very particular, sexual meaning. The former refers to splashing and is often used to mean cold noddles with broth poured over them. The latter, as readers to this blog will no doubt already know, means ejaculating on a sexual partner's body (especially the face). A very different kind of splash indeed. If you were to order a bowl of bukkake udon in Japan, no one would snigger, since the general meaning is still common. But "bukkake" as a sex term has gained precedence internationally, ...

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Is compensated dating with sugar daddies increasing among Japanese women due to remote working? Bunshun Online had an intriguing article suggesting something to that effect. It interviews a 24-year-old female office worker who has started doing "papakatsu," a newly coined kind of compensated dating where younger women go on dates with older men. She started her new sideline in January and over the course of the past few months, has met over 60 men this way. The woman says that shifting to working remotely has changed her whole daily schedule, making it more flexible, whole semi-lockdowns ...

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Kiko Mizuhara has rarely shied away from publicity and provocation. From her nude shoots to outspoken views, she is as much a social icon as a fashion one. Her private life has been complex, involving relationships with high-profile men like K-pop singer G-Dragon and the actor Shuhei Nomura. She recently added very, very explicit sex scenes to her roster of achievements. As we recently showcased, the new Netflix film Ride or Die features both nude straight and lesbian scenes. The latter were shot with co-star Honami Sato. As the director said, "One of the reasons this work was not adapted ...

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Office romances can be great -- but can also get messy. In days past, office ladies (OL) were almost expected, alongside their other duties, to hook up with their future hubbies among the desks of their company, marry, and then quit to start a family. Thankfully, those stereotypical expectations are, if not quite dead, on the decline. That said, the office romance (shanai renai) still holds a special appeal for men and women seeking distraction from those mind-numbing hours of spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. While the fantasy has fueled a thousand adult videos and gravure shoots ...

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Was this inevitable? Everything seems to be getting in on the non-fungible tokens boom, which has now reached the Japanese adult industry. The legendary shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage artist Hajime Kinoko is going sell an NFT of the latest entry in his "red" series of bondage images -- his first NFTs release and his first all-digital addition to the series. The project is organized in partnership with Zak Shibuya of Reality Production Management (RPM Tokyo), which is planning an Instagram launch event and charity event to accompany the NFT. It's another first for renowned Hajime Kinoko: ...

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In late April, the internet went a bit crazy with this story of a 39-year-old Japanese man who was arrested and charged with defrauding 35 Japanese women in Osaka. The duped women all thought they were his girlfriend. The man, Takashi Miyagawa, had told them different dates for his birthday so he could get as many gifts of meals, money, and clothing as possible. The fraud, though, seems only to have added up to ¥100,000 (about $1,000). The handsome Miyagawa apparently met his victims through his work as a salesman for water purifiers and shower heads. What's most intriguing here -- and ...

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Netflix is ramping up its Japanese-market content, not least successful drama series like The Naked Director (second season coming soon!) and movies like Ride or Die. It is also getting into producing original anime and has even opened an academy for training the next generation of talent. And now it's created a virtual YouTuber as its anime ambassador. Launched in late April, N-ko is a bilingual sheep girl character (officially, a "sheep-human lifeform"), since you can't go wrong with kemonomimi and moe anthropomorphism to build a fandom. Apparently aged 24 and (like Netflix) from Los ...

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