Tenga makes summer masturbation cooler with new toys
July 7, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
The Japanese summer is long and brutal: once the cooler, somewhat sticky rainy season ends in July, the weather is scorching through September, coupled with intense humidity.
The temperatures mean ...
Summer full-frontal photo books suggest return of the hair nude shoot
July 6, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
The photo book market in Japan can sometimes seem like a tame one. Sure, we harp on about the latest semi-nude shoots featuring various music idols, actresses, models, and so on, but, as lovely those ...
2000s gravure and TV star Yinling makes comeback at age 47
July 5, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
There are blasts from the past, and then there are blasts from the past.
If you are long-term fan of gravure, then you will know of Yinling (Yan Yinling), a major force in the industry in the late ...
Riko Matsudaira hopes to cement post-Keyakizaka46 career with semi-nude first photo book
July 4, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
We recently wrote about ex-AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko's retirement, noting how she had carved out quite a striking career as a sexploitation actress and nude model after her brief stint with the ...
Ex-porn star Ai Uehara releases AI photo book with digitally generated version of herself
July 4, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
Last month, we reported on the controversy over a new gravure idol who was supposedly AI-generated but seemed to be just a slightly different version of a flesh-and-blood gradol. The publisher ...
Fictosexuals in Japan band together fight discrimination
July 3, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
Over four years ago, the media in Japan and globally went bananas about a Japanese man who "married" a virtual character.
These stories are catnip to editors who love "sexless Japan" and "wacky ...
Twitter users arrested for selling uncensored selfies and videos
July 3, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
Japan's obscenity laws about not showing genitalia apply to you, even if you are supposedly an amateur and not a professional porn production company churning out DVDs and streaming releases.
On ...
Ex-AKB48 idol and nude model Satomi Kaneko to retire
June 30, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
We recently wrote about AKB48 idol Mion Mukaichi's somewhat surprising decision to do a semi-nude photo book while still a member of the supergroup.
As we mentioned in our post, most music idols ...
Japan approves access to morning-after pill without doctor’s prescription
June 29, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
Everything changes, except the avant-garde, or so the saying goes. Now in Japan, perhaps it's rather nothing changes, except for sexual mores.
For years, Japan seemed to lag behind other major ...
Mion Mukaichi (AKB48) debut photo book is semi-nude
June 28, 2023
/Tadashi Anahori
With music sales down, fewer meet-and-greet events like before, and far less general public interest in its current members (which means fewer TV appearances and fewer lucrative advertising campaign ...