Some myths never seem to grow tired or stale, especially when they are this visually appealing.
Although nyotaimori "body sushi" is possibly almost as much a Western fabrication as an actual Japanese cuisine custom or sexual fantasy, it refuses to die. Time after time, you stumble upon depictions of it in popular culture outside Japan.
Perhaps one reason for this is that people locally also like to indulge in nyotaimori imagery at regular intervals -- both seriously and in jest.
This is most interesting, of course, when it's at its erotic best and particularly when it involves hints ...
What do AV actresses do on their days off? This is a question we often ponder. How many of the hot ladies wandering around Shinjuku and Shibuya are actually minor porn stars doing some shopping?
We've searched the archives a bit and found this revealing gem, which offers a tantalizing hint about what some of the more adventurous ladies get up to.
In April 2015, porn performer Sara Shinomiya spent her day off having her lovely body coated in cream and other sweet things -- all for her friends to slowly lick off.
They also used some sort of sweet topping to write insults on her legs in ...
The only officially licensed offshoot of London's original Torture Garden, the world's leading fetish club lands in Tokyo for Torture Garden Japan.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the fetish fantasy party welcomes BSDM and bondage fans of all creeds as well as cyberpunkers, fetishists and extreme cosplayers to Xex Nihonbashi on April 2nd from midnight (natch).
Just make sure you're not wearing casual clothes:
Enforced Fantasy Dress Code (Full Costumes Only / No Half Measures / TG is an Extreme Event for Extreme People!):
Fetish, Body Art, SM, Burlesque, Berlin Kabaret, ...
Nyotaimori is one of those urban myth sex fantasies that only seems to happen in movies or manga. It's not even certain whether it has any real historical basis, though this hasn't stopped foreign movies and TV presenting it as a fundamental example of Japanese kinkiness.
Of course, there are places where you can try eating sushi or sashimi off a naked woman's body.
It has become a rather cheesy ritual that sometimes happens at certain parties, though the aptly named Nyotaimori Tokyo offers a "fashionable" dispatch service where they send a naked female food plate to your ...
Nyotaimori (女体盛り): the practice of eating sushi off a naked woman's body. Does it actually happen? Well, judging by our experiences, probably not -- but it still looks great!
The obscure and likely exaggerated "custom" looks great in porn and probably crops up more in western films set in Japan than in real Japan. Yeah, thanks Rising Sun, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo et al...
However, there have been cases of university students holding nyotaimori events but quite how tongue-in-cheek, we don't know.
This balanced 2009 article describes Nyotaimori as an underground ...
