A few weeks ago, controversy erupted over a Japanese man's posts on social media boasting about paying for sex from underage sex workers in Indonesia.
In posts going back to at least 2024, he brazenly wrote about how he was looking forward to having sex with these "living onaholes" aged 16 or 17, and was going to "creampie" them.
It inevitably led to outrage online last month. Angry Indonesians found further examples of other Japanese men boasting about their supposed exploits. Warnings were issued by the Japanese embassy and government that child prostitution is illegal. Police in ...
We are in June, which means we are in Pride month, which means we should expect to see a lot more stories like this rolling through the media.
A new survey has found that 10.6% of people in Japan identify as LGBTQ+. The poll asked 46,658 individuals aged 20 to 59.
The survey was run by advertising giant Dentsu, whose interest in the subject perhaps shows how important and potentially lucrative the LGBTQ+ yen is to corporate brands.
Dentsu has previously carried out similar surveys, the last one of which was in 2023, which found that 9.7% self-identify as LGBTQ+. Presumably, greater ...
The Japanese porn star Yui Hatano celebrated her 18th anniversary in the industry this week.
In that time, countless other performers have fallen by the wayside and most have been forgotten, Hatano has not only retained her popularity, but kept up an enviable rate of releases and also seemingly not grown jaded as she got older.
It is estimated that the award-winning performer, known affectionately to fans as Hata-chan or Yui-chan, has appeared in more than 3,000 porn titles since her debut way back in 2008.
Of course, such a long career has a downside. You feel old compared to your ...
Ai Sayama is a fantastically curvy, veteran Japanese porn star. Now 37 years old, she also works at the "night culture salon" hostess club Red Dragon in Roppongi.
She debuted in the adult video industry in 2007 and has diversified by forming a vocal group with two other porn stars, Anri Okita and Mary Tachibana, and occasional appears in movies.
These tend to be erotic movies or softcore porn (sexploitation). Maniac Driver (2021) is probably the best known among her credits, and stars a number of other leading Japanese porn stars, including Saryu Usui, Ayumi Kimito, and Iori Kogawa.
We're ...
A pink companion is an old-fashioned term for a cross between a hostess, stripper, and sex worker at a hot spring resort.
Hot spring (onsen) resorts are now places for wellness and luxury, but traditionally were closely associated with erotic pleasures, either for newly married couples or guys looking for a good time with geisha, hostesses, and sex workers. It's also why sex museums were often at such resorts.
Pink companions (sometimes called super companions) will officially stop short of providing actual sex to guests, but they wear provocative clothing or nothing but underwear while ...
Everyone is at compensated dating. Even the taxman. Or rather, the tax woman.
The Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau has imposed a 20% pay cut on a female employee working at a tax office in Saitama Prefecture for working at adult entertainment establishments without permission and receiving payment for it.
This is a moot point, though, since the employee in question has since resigned.
According to the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau, the female employee in her twenties worked at five adult entertainment establishments without permission between October of last year and March ...
Retired porn stars tend to disappear into the oblivion of regular employment after retirement, with only a few seeking out the limelight by launching other public-facing careers. But this is the first time that we have heard of a porn star switching gears into charity work.
Eimi Fukada was one of the biggest names in the Japanese adult video industry but she seemed to quietly retire last year. As far as we know, she didn't realize any new productions and, while we didn't seem a formal announcement, she is now described in the media as a "former" porn star (or, as the Japanese media always ...
Tenga is here to make summer more tolerable.
Some people find summer so hot and sweaty that just the thought of getting intimate with themselves or a partner is too much.
Others (and we count ourselves among them) welcome all the sweat, which seems to take us back to something more primal. And there's nothing more primal than sexual pleasure.
But Tenga isn't promoting a special summer sex toy (though that would be fun). After all, it's just released the Flip Flexy designer male masturbator, which is enough of a treat already.
No, the designer adult brand has teamed up with Earth ...
The online version of monthly magazine Spa! recently published a two-part interview with the Japanese porn star Sora Amakawa, describing her early career and experience with management agencies that didn't pay her fees.
We've translated and edited some highlights from the two interviews.
You debuted in the porn industry in 2019. What led you to join a talent agency that represents adult film performers?
Sora Amakawa: I needed to earn money to support my family, so a friend introduced me to a talent agency that specializes in adult film actresses. However, that friend was receiving a ...
Ayame Misaki is back with a new digital photo book. Shot by ND Chow, wet moon came out via Shueisha and Weekly Playboy on May 18.
Living up to its title, it features a sweaty Misaki showing off her shapely body in a bikini.
Misaki is now 37 years old and seems set to replicate the success of Kyoko Fukada and continue such gravure beach shoots into her late thirties and even forties.
Like the voice actress Yuka Iguchi, Misaki reinvented her in her thirties with an athletic look boasting muscular curves and a sun-kissed body.
Beginning in 2021, her comeback has reaped dividends for ...
