According to an article in Weekly Women Prime, Japan is seeing a rapid rise in the number of establishments offering sexual services to women from male "therapists."
The claim is based on extensive research by a manga artist, Yachinatsu (pictured), who has published on the topic of sexual services for women. Her manga Do Women Need Sex Entertainment Prostitution? has sold over 300,000 in Japan and been translated into English.
While the industry has become accessible enough that married people and those even in their sixties and seventies are using the services she says various risks must ...
The tabloid Spa! recently ran an interview with a 33-year-old, heavily tattooed employee in the construction industry who goes by the online name Cyber Lisapi.
Lisapi did compensated dating from junior high school and has also worked at a brothel (fuzoku). Her colorful past also includes addiction to illegal drugs.
In the interview, she shares more about her turbulent life. We've shared some edited highlights below.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, her childhood was unsettled.
"My parents divorced when I was about six years old. My mother worked as a hostess at a club, so I don't think she had ...
An article by former porn star Aya Takanashi (pictured below) in Maidona News recently reported on the Japanese version of the tang ping or "lying flat" trend that originated in China for rejecting overwork and the pressure to achieve.
It is similar to the notion of "quiet quitting" or NEET, a sociological term for people not in full-time work or education/training that became popular as a label in Japan in the years after the bubble economy collapsed.
The article focuses on the nightlife version of this phenomenon, claiming that such "lying flat" people account for 30 or 40 percent of ...
Miporin (Miporin-sama) is known as one of most high-profile dominatrixes in Tokyo. She works for the 11 Channel soapland in Yoshiwara (and claims to be the only latex fetish specialist dom working in that famous district) and the BDSM members' club Dominant Tokyo. Heavily tattooed, the half-Chinese, half-Filipino mistress is also known for her cheerful personality that completely contrasts with the aggressive image of a dominatrix.
The self-professed "rubber queen" gave an interview to Spa! last month and we have translated some of the highlights below.
How did she get her first ...
Given the unregulated nature of the sex industry and the recent proliferation of dodgy, host-addicted young ladies doing tachinbo (streetwalking), it's expected that a client might be on guard, worried about losing his wallet or receiving a visit from the cops because the girl is actually underage.
What they might not expect is for the prostitute to dob you into the cops!
That's what happened at a hotel in Kitakyushu, where an elementary school teacher was arrested after a call girl tipped off police over the presence of weed, which was wrapped in paper and disguised as a ...
It's not a shock to anyone that the officers in the vise squad are probably getting a few freebies. But to see it described in plain print and blunt detail still raises eyebrows.
A former senior police officer in Wakayama received free services at an illegal brothel for eight years. As broken in a scoop from Weekly Bunshun, Yasuhiro Horiuchi allegedly used his power over a soapland and exploit it for freebies, according to testimony from a former operator.
"For eight years, I was extorted by a senior Wakayama Prefectural Police officer. He used his police authority to force me to provide ...
Host and hostess clubs were demonized during the Covid pandemic as superspreaders. Despite the greater need for intimacy among clients, the sex industry also took a big hit but was denied any government handout.
This sparked controversy over perceived discrimination and some fought back: a lawsuit was filed in 2020 over the omission of sex industry businesses like delivery health (outcall escort services) and soaplands from cash relief schemes.
The lawsuit, filed by a call girl service in Kansai and successfully crowdfunded by over 1,000 supporters, was dismissed in 2022 by Tokyo District ...
In recent days, every time we logged onto X (formerly known as Twitter), we were confronted by confronted by the not-unpleasant spectacle of videos of a very busty and sexy personal trainer giving what seemed to be an insanely intimate workshop to a very lucky male patron, whose face would end up in the trainer's barely concealed cleavage or even in her crotch.
We assumed this was essentially a parody or marketing ploy for a freelance model's OnlyFans account, and in fact no such gym existed. However, given the very actual existence of sexy yoga lessons in Tokyo (that certain politicians ...
A recent column in Weekly Playboy explored what ChatGPT tells us about sex workers in Japan.
Procurement and acquisition consultant Takanori Sakaguchi used AI to analyze the sex industry in Japan. With his ChatGPT Pro account, he collected data on 635 sex workers at soaplands and "delivery heath" call girl services: their heights, busts, waists, and hips. The data were taken from high-end services as well as cheaper ones.
The results for height are not surprising: sex workers are essentially as tall as most Japanese women.
What about those all-important breasts? Sex workers almost all have ...
Police have arrested a Vietnamese man living in Hamamatsu for the alleged rape of a sex worker.
According to a report by TV Shizuoka, the unnamed man has admitted having sex with the woman but claims there was consent.
The 28-year-old works in the food and drink industry, and lives in Chuo Ward, Hamamatsu. The allegation relates to an incident at a love hotel in the same ward in late February.
It is unclear why it has taken this long for police to arrest him.
The sex worker is a woman -- presumably Japanese, though not specified in the report -- in her twenties who works for a ...
