Over the years, we have seen a wide range of inspirations for masturbator toys, from numerous parodies of franchises to things like a hand grenade, heart, human brain, milk carton, or sea anemone. Sticking with the latter's marine theme, the spiral valve (scroll valve) is a part of a shark's digestive tract that prevents backflow of liquid -- and it has now inspired not one but two Japanese pocket pussy toys! The corkscrew-shaped portion of the intestine is sometimes called a Tesla valve because it resembles a valve designed by the famed inventor. The aptly named Shark Spiral Valve ...

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The Japanese female TV announcers who present the news and other shows do pretty well, but some of them branch off to pursue even more successful careers in other fields: as a general celebrity (Crystal Takigawa), as a fashion model (Kasumi Mori), as an actress (Minami Tanaka), or even as a gravure idol (Akane Takiyama). Hoping to emulate these predecessors, the former Fuji TV announcer Nagisa Watanabe has made her first foray into gravure in the current issue of Weekly Post. The 27-year-old left the channel at the end of August after a period of illness suffering from PTSD. A graduate ...

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We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols? In a case that recalls Kensuke Miyazaki, who had advocated for fathers to take paternity leave but was caught having an affair with a gravure model while his wife (another lawmaker) was giving birth, a tabloid has broken a scoop on Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, who is alleged to have been having an affair with a former gradol. Flash has revealed that the 55-year-old Tamaki has been ...

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The founder of Japanese video hosting site FC2, Riyo Takahashi, once ran unsuccessfully for election in Japan's upper house. His campaign platform was to "crush mosaic censorship," referring to the pixellation that covers genitalia in Japanese porn to protect producers and retailers from prosecution under Japan's obscenity law, which is usually interpreted as drawing the line at showing a penis or vagina. (This same logic is applied to nudity in mainstream movies too.) Now Takahashi has been arrested by police in Japan when he returned to the country. The 51-year-old was arrested on ...

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The photographer Beniko has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up photo book to her 2023 publication about Japan's disappearing old red-light districts (yukaku, akasen). Beniko is herself a former sex worker at a soapland in Yoshiwara, the famous red-light district in east Tokyo that was a booming licensed pleasure quarter during the Edo period. A single mother in her early fifties, she taught herself to use a camera from the age of 48. She has given guided tours of Yoshiwara and taken portraits of porn stars, strippers, and Yoshiwara soaplands. Her photography project has ...

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In a recent interview with Spa!, Japanese porn star Marina Shiraishi (白石茉莉奈) discussed some of the background to her highly successful career. Shiraishi made her debut back in 2013 and is now 38 years old, making her a jukujo mature performer. But many people are not perhaps aware that she is married and has a child, both from before her entry in the industry. It's more common for JAV performers to marry after they retire and those who do marry during their careers can end in divorce. "I thought I was an unusual case," she admits. Her son is now 15 years old -- and we truly ...

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We already wrote about this story back in September but now the mainstream foreign media is starting to pick up the survey by the Japanese Association for Sex Education, which examines the rate of sex and other forms of intimacy among junior and senior high school students. Perhaps prompted by the publication of the full version of the survey and new reports about it in the Japanese media, liberal bastion the Guardian recently ran an article bemoaning the falling numbers of male Japanese school students who had never kissed. As noted in September, the survey results indicate that only one ...

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Koki (sometimes weirdly stylized with a comma as Koki,) is a 21-year-old Japanese model who is making her first forays into acting. Her actual name is Mitsuki Kimura. She is the daughter of famous Japanese singers Takuya Kimura and Shizuka Kudo. As with a lot of celebrity's children, she attended international school and can speak fluent English. She has a role in the 2024 international film Touch filmed partly in Britain about an Icelandic man and his past relationship with a Japanese woman. Koki plays the woman in 1960s flashbacks, which includes a brief sex scene. As an early ...

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Most of us can only dream of dating a Japanese model. Usually, only actors, singers, sports players, or other male celebrities get to live out that fantasy. Recent examples include the boyfriends of hotties Risa Yukihira and Miyu Murashima. So if you were lucky enough to be dating a Japanese fashion model or gravure idol, you'd be crazy to throw it away, right? Well, it happens. Perhaps after a while, you taken it for granted. Gravure idol Sena Natsuki recently revealed on a late-night TV show that she was single again, having broken up with her boyfriend of five years. She met him ...

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Here's a case that ticks all the boxes about the current moral panic. A concafe ("concept cafe") staffed by men in Kabukicho, Tokyo, is accused of exploiting vulnerable female customers. Concafes can be innocuous themed cafes but are often staffed only by men, making them essentially a kind of host club (similar to how girls' bars are like a cheap hostess club). The customers come for the fantasy created by theme (butlers, doctors, private boys' boarding school students, etc.) and the men who work there. At this one, 32-year-old Takuma Ono is alleged to have tried to force a 20-year-old ...

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