Couple caught having sex in Japanese Internet cafe

Back in the bad old days before smartphones, we remember our early days in Japan and having to visit Internet cafes to check stuff online or write emails to friends and family.

This was pretty much the same situation as back home, but one key difference was that the Internet cafes were also rigged up as manga libraries. And there were private booths.

These were useful if you rolled out of a club at 3 a.m. but didn’t want to hang around two hours until the first trains started.

But during the other times of the day and night, these booths were mostly used by patrons to watch porn. The sound of their rigorous jerking off could be heard while we typed out innocent emails to our friends and loved ones. Even worse, for them at least, was that the booths are not fully private — the separating wall only goes up to just above eye level. It is perfectly possible to peer over and observe men masturbating.

Or couples having sex.

We never saw this ourselves but we heard that it happened, especially at night.

Hiring out a booth in an Internet cafe is much cheaper than a short stay at a love hotel, though decidedly less private and comfortable, so presumably the couples who do it are very poor or kinky. Or both.

Here is one example of a couple recently caught by someone having sex in an Internet cafe.

The girl was seen sitting in her male partner’s lap, reaching down probably to jerk him off. She is apparently naked as they kiss, while he still has his shirt on.

Now wearing only a t-shirt, he was then snapped or filmed turning her around for some doggy action before he finally spotted that they were being watched. Needless to say, he didn’t look too happy about it.

Come on, guys, get a room (not a booth)! Still, at least they were more discreet than another young couple recently snapped on the verge of having very public sex at Shibuya’s Scramble Crossing.