Is Japan's naughty knotty BDSM scene too dangerous? This was the question asked recently by Jake Adelstein, the Tokyo-based reporter who has made a career out of being the foreign media's go-to ...

There are more than a few bars and hostess clubs where you can have your drinks poured for you by AV actresses. There is also a new bar in Kabukicho by Weekly Playboy, where patrons are served by ...

Earlier in the year we wrote about the upcoming porn debut of NMB48 idol Risako Okada. The 21-year-old did a full-frontal photo shoot to celebrate her AV release on the Muteki label under a new ...

Every few months along comes another one: a sensationalist English-language news wire article about Japanese sex dolls that appears everywhere, eager for clicks and comments. This time it's an ...

Once again we have been trawling some of Japan's postwar history for insights about the sexual development of the nation. Here are some awesome vintage images of classic love hotels. Fans of love ...

This video by i-D features interviews with young people who identity as genderless. The makers say that this "hypnotic youth movement are [sic] rejecting ideas of fashion defining sexuality" and ...

Shocking. Fluorescent. Gaudy. Loud. Vular. Neon. Flashy. Tacky. There's a lot of epithets that can be applied to this new cosplay style that is like body art on psychedelic drugs, though none of ...

We're suckers for combos. Put two things that we like together and we get a "double-like" feeling. And so it is with the lovely idol Erina Mano and Tenga. What more is there to say? We've once ...

These days, the delightfully curvy Mitsu Dan is pretty mainstream and often appears on regular TV shows and commercials. However, we still vividly remember the bad old days when she first burst on ...

Another week, another idol photo book or major weekly magazine photo shoot. What's special this time? It's not the latest release from the ranks of AKB48 or Nogizaka46 trying to break out (though ...