S&X (aka S to X) is a new Japanese Netflix drama about Ichito Shimotori, a sex therapist who sees patients facing intimate issues they can't talk about with anyone else. Ignoring the ridicule and prejudice he receives for his chosen profession, he treats each patient with utmost sincerity and respect. But little do the people around him know that he hides an anxiety of his own.
It is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Kisei Tada subtitled "confessions of a therapist." Kento Nakajima plays the lead role.
According to Netflix:
Rooted in the idea that everyone carries private sexual ...
A sweet romance or a queasy tale of grooming?
The July 31 edition of Abema's Women Who Can't Keep Quiet (season 3) featured a love story in which a former music idol pursued her high school homeroom teacher for three years, eventually leading to marriage.
There is a 16-year age gap between 25-year-old Aki and the 41-year-old Shinichi, though they are now happily married and have a child together.
The unusual story has attracted widespread reporting from news outlets and social media.
Aki pursued him relentlessly, even going so as to write "I love you, Teach" in the class attendance ...
The gravure idol and actress Nana Asakawa has a sex scene toward the end of the third episode of Netflix drama Viral Hit, which recently started streaming globally.
The show is known as Kenka Dokugaku in Japanese and based on a hit anime series, itself based on the popular webtoon created by Park Tae-jun and Kim Jung-hyun.
Kota Shimura is a bullied high school student struggling under the weight of his mother’s medical bills and constant abuse from school bullies. His life couldn’t be more bleak… Until one day, an opportunity suddenly falls his way. When a fight with a classmate is ...
Two of our favorite ladies in gravure, together in one shoot.
Former AKB48 idol Mariya Nagao and model Yume Hayashi recently appeared together in an alluring lingerie shoot, which appeared in Friday just before Golden Week.
Such shoots with two gradols invariably have a lesbian undertone, even (or perhaps especially) when it's two sisters.
The 32-year-old Mariyagi has done these kinds of "joint" shoots before with her friend, Jun Amaki, who is set to retire from gravure this summer, sparking a million male fantasies of a threesome with them. Mariyagi also photographed one of ...
A college student. A pachinko parlor worker. A hostess. An influencer. What do all these young Japanese women have in common?
While not as famous (or perhaps infamous) as a place like South Korea, plastic surgery is not uncommon in Japan among models, idols, and porn stars, and also sex workers and social media influencers.
Some female celebrities spend millions of yen on multiple surgeries, though few admit it.
Which is why it tends to make the news when someone does break the taboo and talk about this industry secret.
On a recent edition of the Abema TV show Hyena of Love Season 5, ...
Ex-E-girls member Anna Ishii has a sex scene in the TV show Saint Love Survivors. She is shown having sex on all fours with her lover pounding her from behind as she grips the bed sheets. She is also shown enjoying her partner's embrace from behind while lying on her side.
This being mainstream Japanese TV, though, both actors are fully clothed throughout, which is about as realistic as it sounds. Nonetheless, the lingering closeups of Ishii's face as she feels her lover's thrusts into her body are very, very nice to watch. She has to cover her mouth to muffle her moans. Oh, we can imagine. ...
We all know the image of flight attendants: they're hot and sexy, and have got men eating out of their hands. But stereotypes are one thing and reality is quite another.
The comedian Crazy Coco used to work at a flight attendant for a foreign airline. While she probably had more than a few dalliances with hunky pilots and swanky execs flying in first class during her career, it seems that romance has been a rare thing in recent years.
On an edition of TV Asahi's The Hell I Loved that aired late at night on November 20, Crazy Coco confessed the sad state of her love life.
During a segment ...
According to a spot on a recent TV show, personal self-defense sprays like mace are selling well in Japan among young woman as people begin to feel unsafe in their lives.
"I keep reading people online talk about how it's getting more dangerous, so I'm thinking about getting one," remarks one teenaged girl who was interviewed.
"I think just carrying it will give you peace of mind," said another female teenager.
Such sprays, known variously as mace or pepper spray, contain a type of tear gas that temporarily blinds an assailant.
The TV report was hardly scientific and did not give any ...
The new Taiga drama Unbound has started on public broadcaster NHK. The period drama is an institution on Japanese TV, running for a whole year and always attracting a lot of attention.
It typically broadcasts in the early evening and is pretty tame in terms of content (don't expect blood in the fight scenes, for instance).
As such, viewers were surprised to see nudity in the very first episode last Sunday. Japanese TV drama shows on the established linear channels generally features no nudity, even for late-night shows, though there are sometimes bizarrely non-nude sex scenes.
The nude ...
The television announcer and model Kasumi Mori has become a high-class hostess.
Well, kinda. She pretended to be one to film a TV show.
Mori is riding high now from lots of media appearances and exposure as she tries to follow the likes of announcer-turned-actress Minami Tanaka and break out into the mainstream as a model and general celebrity.
The 28-year-old recently released her debut photo book that featured some pretty sexy shots and has been a minor hit, it seems.
In the show, which was broadcast on TV Asahi (and with the full version available on Abema), Mori wore an alluring ...
