We stumbled upon this confessional post on Amina du Jean's Substack, billed as "a digital temple for positive femininity." The title, "Crazy Sexy Tokyo," is provocative and sounds like another "wacky Japan" story at first, but we were especially intrigued to read the author's insights into compensated dating (enjo kosai).
Writing about her personal experiences of participating in this social "custom" of young women, in which they go on dates with (older) men and receive monetary "compensation" for their troubles, the author is very candid and doesn't resort to the more obvious ...
At a point when the sex industry in Japan is under economic and social pressure -- demonized by politicians and the media for spreading the coronavirus, deserted by customers -- comes a timely reminder of the "healing" and affective nature of sex work, and its curious status in society.
Recently reviewed in the Japan Times, Gabriele Koch's book Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy (2020, Stanford University Press) argues that Japanese sex workers regard their work as necessary to the social and economic well-being of society.
The book is the result of nearly two years of ...
Soft on Demand (SOD) are some of our favorite people in the world.
Not only do they make fantastic Japanese porn, they are also a retailer who sells and distributes other production companies' products.
Kaku-Butsu is SOD's incredible fuzoku (sex club) web portal, providing information and rankings on hundreds of clubs in Japan.
The name literally means "every thing" and it lives up to its boasts of comprehensiveness.
You can see the club's prices, their area, their services (i.e., can the girl be "delivered" to your love hotel or apartment, or do you pick her up at the club?), and the ...
It's one of the Japanese entertainment world's worst-kept secrets that minor music and gravure idols moonlight as prostitutes for various kinds of sex shops or services.
Sometimes this precedes their more mainstream bikini modeling careers; sometimes it comes after, when they get too "old" to attract offers of photo books and magazine shoots. And often it runs parallel and you get some very, very lucky customers indeed.
It has come to light that minor pop idol Kokoro Haruno has been one of the notorious moonlighters, the revelation of which possibly caused her agency to sack her and ...
