Japan, sometimes you defeat even us.
We love all its kinkiness and its vibrant sex scene, and we deplore the hypocrisy of the establishment that puts people like Megumi Igarashi on trial or who censor gay art.
We've seen a lot of Japanese porn -- perhaps too much. Surely nothing can take us by surprise anymore.
Wrong.
Take this segment of a game show called "Tekoki Karaoke" (Handjob Karaoke).
Mainstream entertainment, this ain't.
The contestants have to sing karaoke while being jerked off by a girl. Who is wearing a hot nurse uniform (playing on porn tropes, natch) and ...
Go into a kiosk in a station on the Tokyo Metro subway system and take a look at the drinks.
There's always a colorful selection of beverages.
But perhaps none quite so colorful as this.
In fact, the energy drink is proving so popular you may not even be able to find a can of Ojo-sama Seisui, which translates as "fair lady's holy water". Since April 1st the drink has been on sale at Tokyo Metro station shops.
There's even a catchy bit of copy: "The goddess inside me awakens"!
The drink is apparently full of healthy and beautifying ingredients, but the name is a ...
It's the Chinese turn to be Weird Asians of the Week.
An AFP-Jiji article doing the rounds promises that "high-end China sex dolls offer alternative to adultery". Well, nothing wrong with that. Japan has been doing it for years!
Still, we think they need to do better branding. Apparently the "stand-in companion" is simply called "156". Hardly has the same ring as "Candy Girl", does it?
Named for her height, she is a high-quality sex doll made of thermoplastic elastomer, a rubbery material softer than silicone, with adjustable hands, a removable head and genitals, and available ...
Anyone who has ever seen some of the more extreme or, ahem, unusual entries in the pantheon of Japanese adult video will be aware of ryoujoku (or ryojoku).
It's where the woman is treated in a "degraded" way, as someone violated or disgraced -- like a shamed woman. (The actual meaning of ryoujoku can be sexual assault, i.e. rape, or also "disgrace.")
A common scene in Japanese porn will have the girl treated like a "human toilet" and phrases written on her body to "shame" her.
Here is Mika Osawa demonstrating the genre.
The graffiti might say things like "¥200 ...
Some ladies on Twitter have amused us by trying to copy an anime character.
Well, there's absolutely nothing new about that. But this is cosplay with a particular focus on one body part -- one of our favorites.
The girls attempted to copy Hestia from DanMachi (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) and her trademark costume: revealing white shirt and blue ribbon, which runs tantalizingly under her boobs and around her arms.
The TV anime adaptation of the light novel was shown on TV for the first time recently and it got some lovely ladies thinking.... Could I do what ...
Art imitates life, as the aphorism goes, but life also imitates art.
Visitors to Japan are sometimes disappointed that the country doesn't live up to the stereotypes: Where are the geisha? Where are the robots? Where are the hordes of anime girls?
Where are all the molesters on the trains? Wait, what? Yes, some people are actually expecting to see this.
Japan may be paying the price for being the empire of porn.
It's overseas reputation is not quite as "cool" as the government might like. Instead, foreigners are seemingly coming to Japan expecting the nation to be like they have ...
Tenga is having a massive year to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
It has continued its series of special new releases for the milestone with the Tenga Condoms.
While the condoms themselves are regular sleeves (natural color, natural-type tip), the packaging is awesome. Each of the condoms in the six-pack comes in its own mini case (common in Japan) with an individual pop art design.
The six are then stored in a round case that looks like it could house almost anything (sweets, snuff, a monocle) except condoms! As discreet and stylish as Tenga always is.
As usual the ...
We all like to compare numbers, especially when it comes to the number of people you've slept with.
But we accept defeat when it comes to Yuhei Takashima, who has apparently admitted to sex with over 12,000 women.
That's not a typo: more than twelve thousand!
The former Yokohama school principal was not just into the sex itself. He also catalogued his incredible feat.
Over 27 years he allegedly archived almost 150,000 photographs of his sexual exploits with prostitutes in 400 neatly filed red albums.
Takashima is aged 64 but his "career" goes back to 1988 when he went to work at a ...
A "trailer" for "Pizap Shake Your Body & Soul" by Marvelous Entertainment has been generating some horny mirth in Japan and overseas.
The virtual reality game parody video has been created by the "Department of Hyper Enormous Boobage Development" to showcase "New Rinjokan", a game machine offering a more realistic experience.
The solution to the problem of perfectly swaying breasts was apparently "Pizap" (don't ask us how this is different to what they call "New Rinjokan").
To use the product, the player has to run on a conveyor belt to make the breasts on a mannequin shake. This ...
Regular readers will recall the big fuss that was made when Yui Ichikawa appeared in a film last year called Umi wo kanjiru toki (When I Sense the Sea, also screening overseas as Undulant Fever).
People got excited because it promised to have some nude scenes with the popular twenty-something actress.
She also stripped off for Anan, a women's lifestyle and fashion magazine that occasionally likes to indulge in semi-pornographic photo shoots with various Japanese models.
Well, the film came and went, and now has been released on DVD, so the web is already full of ...
