It's probably uncontroversial to say that Japan is a culture in which more men use professional sex services than in many other countries. Japanese men have few qualms about using call girls and prostitutes. Japan is also a country with a vast porn industry.
All in all, this creates men less embarrassed by their liking for porn stars or pictures of naked, or semi-naked, women.
Some men even customize their own loafers so they can have such images on their feet!
Take this anonymous netizen who has apparently created these shoes. Can you tell what the pictures are?
They are ...
We've just heard of this new documentary which takes a look at one of our favorite places, the love hotel.
While we don't like the preview's slightly cheap pandering to exoticism and stereotypes about Japan ("in a society where conformity is everything and public affection cannot be shown..." -- really?) that just aren't the whole truth, we shouldn't judge it solely by the trailer.
The visuals are interesting, at any rate, promising some nice kinky scenes of S&M inside a love hotel room, by the looks of things. Check out the nurse asking her "patient" if his cock has a ...
Artist and manga-ka Megumi Igarashi is not afraid to shock, in spite of her innocent smiles. After all, this is a young woman whose artist name is Rokudenashi-ko (Good-for-nothing girl) and who calls herself a "deko-man" (decorated pussy) artist, a "pussy columnist" and who is a member of the "Japan Genitalia Art Association".
She held a solo show in May in Shinjuku that was a quite a talking point online, not least for its colorful pictures of vaginas with faces. She also claims to have made the world's first 3D "pussy boat" (or is it a kayak?).
And this is where the trouble ...
SDN48 was the short-lived "sexy" version of AKB48. Although the smaller sister group had its fans, it ultimately only lasted three years perhaps because, with so many regular gravure idols out there, it didn't seem to have a point.
The popularity of AKB48 et al with a certain demographic rests on how they are "innocently" sexy and not so overt, making SDN48 just seem like a cheap gravure group.
SDN48's members have gone on to have varied careers but their initial entry into a more overtly sexy idol group at least prepared some for future naked photo shoots. Machiko Tezuka, for example, had ...
We know this is going to be a divisive release -- and that's why we're blogging about it.
Over at Kanojo Toys, they have a JAV porn DVD for sale called "Rina-chan Best".
"Rina-chan Best" is a long 480-minute double-disc fetish DVD porn set for the audiences who love eight-hour paipan schoolgirl fantasies. And that's quite a big audience in Japan, it seems.
Rina is a sweet little girl who measures a mere 147 cm (4.8 ft) in height. Like small girls with flat chests? She's the one for you. (After all, there's no shortage of them in Japan.)
In the series of films in this set Rina is put ...
There's no getting around it: Japanese girls don't have the largest breasts in the world. In fact, many are very petite in the bust department and some are just ...
We love a sexy older Japanese woman and Kumiko Takeda is one of the best. Curvy, with a fantastic pair of breasts, and a beautifully round ass, Kumiko's body is one of the reasons we thank the Shinto gods daily that we were put on this Earth.
Even better, she goes interracial -- she married an American.
However, she has now announced that she is getting divorced!
She married back in 1999 and is the mother of a daughter (she also looked VERY sexy when she was pregnant). She moved to San Diego, California, and was rarely seen back in Japan.
She was born in 1968 and made her debut in ...
As promised to an enthusiast last week, here is a run-down of some hot Japanese girls with boyish haircuts!
Yu Aoi
Moe Arai
Maki Horikita
Rina Ikoma
Aki Kondo
Okay, you probably don't know this girl (she's an artist) -- but she's super cute!
Kaoru Mitsumune
Mao Miyaji
Natsuna
Yurika Narahara (aka Yurika Kubo)
Nocchi
Rena Nounen
Nanami Sakuraba
Mikako Tabe
Do you have any other ...
The first meet-and-greet so-called "handshaking" event for fans to meet their AKB48 idols has been held since the May saw attack that injured Rina Kawaei and Anna Iriyama, and a male member of staff.
Billed as "the idols that you can meet", AKB48 haven't been within touching distance for fans for 41 days but returned to extend their hands to the "virginal" palms of Japanese men at Tokyo Big Sight at the weekend.
Immediately after the saw attack there was much speculation that it would spell the end of the mega band's infamous mass meet-and-greets. Nogizaka 46, a spin-off group, did continue ...
It's often the case the Japanese porn stars that are huge in China, Taiwan or Korea are not necessarily the biggest stars back home in Japan. Sora Aoi is one famous example -- a star at home but a mega-star abroad.
Yet it's rare for any gravure idol or porn star to make it big in Europe or America beyond the radar of hardcore Japanese or Yellow Fever fans.
But one lady is bucking the trend.
Marica Hase (or Marika Hase) (長谷真理香) made the leap over the waters to America in 2012 and hasn't looked back since. She appeared in Penthouse in January 2013 and now makes around 15 ...
