We've all seen those pop-ups that sometimes appear on particularly dodgy sites, demanding that you pay a ridiculous amount of money. Most of the time, you can click away and rest easy that it's a bluff. But sometimes people do pay. Spare a thought for this Japanese man in his fifties, living in the frigid northernly city of Sapporo. He kept himself warm by watching some porn online. But then he got a text to his phone in October from someone claiming to be NTT Finance, which is a genuine company (a subsidiary of the telecommunications giant). He duly rang the number in the message, only ...

These days, we aren't going out much, but we might be persuaded to make an exception here. Tokyo Weekender published a photo report on the recently opened SOD Land, which is publicized as a porn theme park. As previously reported, the complex opened in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku in central Tokyo back in October, and features five floors devoted to adult video. Tokyo Weekender's report emphasizes the "safety" aspect of the visit, in how the site has adapted to the risk of the coronavirus through face masks, disinfecting visitors from head to foot, and a special UV filter in the ...

Top Japanese porn producer Soft on Demand has opened its mini theme park complex in Kabukicho, Tokyo, which, despite recent gentrification, remains one of the centers of the adult and sex industry. As previously reported, SOD Land is five floors devoted to porn. Visitors can get food and drink served by actual adult video stars or sex workers in several different types of establishments. Here are some pictures from when the site opened to the public on October 10. People were lining to get in, despite the pre-typhoon rainy weather. The "silent bar" on the top floor is the ...

Porn workers of the world, unite! Do Japan’s porn actresses and actors have labor rights? This was the question asked in a recent feature in the Japan Times. Ostensibly a report on a May 4th talk at a Koenji cafe, it was about the AV industry's response to Human Rights Now (HRN), which had issued a damning report about the local AV industry. The international NGO, which is based in Tokyo and has U.N. special consultative status, reported the results of an in-depth investigation into the pornography business in Japan. The report concluded that the industry had violated the human ...

An AFP article doing the rounds on sites like Japan Today and Mail Online has some bad things to say about Japanese porn. The headline blasts: "Japan's porn industry preys on young women, say rights advocates". Well, not an unfamiliar topic, we hear you say. Japanese women are being exploited and abused in Japan’s multi-billion dollar pornographic film industry, rights advocates said on Thursday, calling on authorities to strengthen laws to protect them. Pornography is widely available in Japan, where some actresses become well known enough to appear on mainstream TV chat ...

You couldn't make it up! This is a juicy story that's almost too good to be true. Kyodo News is reporting an amazing international faux pas involving kindergarten kids in Japan, an educational video maker in Taiwan, and... porn! Educational videos a Taiwanese company manufactured for kindergarten children in Japan based on an order from the Japanese government included pornographic films, Taiwan media has reported. The Apple Daily, Liberty Times and Next Magazine reported in their Thursday editions that the Japanese government awarded a Japanese firm a contract to manufacture ...

Across the water in the Korean peninsular, it seems that even in the world's most secretive state eros is playing her part in the revolution. In some North Korean cities there are bars for leading labor and public safety body officials. However, these aren't just any boring drinkery. The female staff strip for the chiefs and recently there are even female university students who are willing to sell themselves so that they have the money to afford mobile phones. According to informed sources north of the border, last year in Pyongyang, a man took marijuana and then had group sex ...