These are stunning erotic images from Peep Document, a classic voyeuristic photography magazine published in Japan in the 1980s. Like with our previous showcase of 1980s Japanese voyeurism fetish photography, the images were originally shared by fintan (pinakotheca), taken from his incredible collection of Japanese subculture and erotica, which he scans and puts online, and typically offers the original publication for sale. The 1980s was a decade of supreme confidence in Japan, with the bubble economy giving corporations huge bargaining power abroad and workers enjoying wild parties and ...

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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 ...

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We've showcased the incredible work by fintan (pinakotheca) before. He finds often obscure and esoterica Japanese erotica, such as old magazines and photo books, scans them, shares them online, and then sells the original print copies to anyone interested. Anyone with an interest in Japanese erotica, especially vintage erotica, should follow him on X or Instagram. We've previously showcased the amazing images from a 1990 photo book called Binding Force: Japan’s First Facial Restraint Photo Book, shared by fintan in March. More recently, he has explored the veritable gold mine that is ...

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The ever-reliable and diligent fintan (pinakotheca) has done it again. He assiduously seeks out old erotic art and photography books, buys them, scans them, resells the books, and then shares select highlights online. Whether due to personal preference or the quality of the material, he frequently features Japanese publications. After our previous showcase of some of these last month, we cannot resist another set of images from obscure 1980s Japanese voyeur photography books and magazines. If you're into voyeur fetish stuff or even a practicing Peeping Tom, this is surely pure catnip. ...

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These are some remarkable erotic images from Peep Focus and Peep Document, two 1980s voyeuristic photography magazines from Japan. The fetish images were shared by fintan (pinakotheca), who nobly finds old erotic art and photography books, scans, resells the books, and then shares highlights online. He often features Japanese publications. He also shared scans from an incredible 1990 photo book called Binding Force: Japan’s First Facial Restraint Photo Book, which we wrote about in March. The most famous Japanese photographer associated with voyeurism is Kohei Yoshiyuki, whose 19702 ...

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A former love hotel in Hokkaido is available to rent for the princely sum of ¥29,000 a month. Apartment Odaiba, as the hotel is now branded, was recently spotted by retro locale fan Hopigon, whose posts about it went viral. While the owners require a month's deposit and key month up front, you can move in right away. Though we expect the property is pretty basic and remote by Tokyo standards, you can essentially live permanently in a love hotel for a fee that's not much higher than the short-term stay fee at an urban love hotel (in other words, a month here costs only a bit more than ...

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Today, we are sharing some amazing images from Binding Force: Japan's First Facial Restraint Photo Book. This is a 1990 photo book by Masatoshi Osanai that explores restraint fetish with lots of fantastically kinky portraits of women wearing BDSM gear like gimp hoods, ball gags, and even gas masks. Some of the more extreme images feature nose and mouth hooks. All the photos are black and white and mostly just of the models' faces, but some are full-body shots (nude but with the bush airbrushed out, as is typical except for "hair nude" full-frontal nude books). In the words of ...

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Rui Sakuragi was one of the biggest adult video stars in Japan in the first half of the 1990s. She made her debut in 1989 and then left the industry in 1996 at the peak of her popularity. In her subsequent career, she was a stripper until the year 2000, and did some acting on TV during those years. But in the past quarter-century, fans didn't know what she was up to and rumors swirled that she had passed away. That silence ended recently. So what is the now 56-year-old Rui Sakuragi doing today? She's working as a hostess at a club in Ginza run by another top ex-porn star, Hitomi ...

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The internet has had an immeasurable impact on sex, from providing access to invaluable advice and information, to enabling people to watch hardcore porn at just the click of a button or swipe and tape of a phone screen. Some argue that having such easy access to porn all the time is unhealthy, especially at a very young and impressionable age. Some blame the ubiquity of porn for the rise of certain violent sexual preferences, like choking. In Japan, porn has long been ubiquitous since the emergence of the adult video industry in the 1980s, though porn magazines and books were already big ...

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The photographer Beniko has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up photo book to her 2023 publication about Japan's disappearing old red-light districts (yukaku, akasen). Beniko is herself a former sex worker at a soapland in Yoshiwara, the famous red-light district in east Tokyo that was a booming licensed pleasure quarter during the Edo period. A single mother in her early fifties, she taught herself to use a camera from the age of 48. She has given guided tours of Yoshiwara and taken portraits of porn stars, strippers, and Yoshiwara soaplands. Her photography project has ...

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