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Debate rages among performers over consent in porn
How consensual is porn? The upcoming change to the age of adulthood in Japan and its implications for people signing contracts to do porn has prompted politicians to scramble to make legislation...
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Japanese woman sues employer after boss sends her pornographic images
Here’s a peculiar case. As reported in Bengo4, a woman is suing her employer in Japan for enabling sexual harassment. Her company failed to act after it was alleged the woman’s section chief sent her...
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Japanese politicians finalize legal exemption for teenagers appearing in porn
A cross-party set of Japanese lawmakers succeeded in putting together emergency legislation on March 31 exempting the changes to the age of adulthood for contracts related to adult video. From today,...
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Japanese porn star Julia becomes life-sized realistic sex doll
As one of the most successful performers in the entire industry, Japanese porn star Julia has released a lot of things in her long career, especially bestselling adult videos. She has, of course,...
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Japanese adult industry responds to Ukrainian invasion, with vibrators
Make love, not war. It’s more than a slogan. It’s a cliché. But it’s certainly a policy we embrace here at Tokyo Kinky. The Japanese adult industry has responded to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia by...
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New model kit for making retro porn vending machine in miniature
They say that everything is small in Japan. Small cars. Small homes. Small food portions. Small people. Only kidding about that last one. Sometimes it seems that there really are capsule toys and model...
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Shoko Takahashi announces shock retirement from porn
The high-profile Japanese adult video star Shoko Takahashi has announced on social media on April 1 that she will retire from porn. This news came out a few days ago and somehow slipped under our radar...
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The ancient East Asian secret to longevity: sex
Is it the miso, the seaweed, the tofu, or the fish? Theories abound, but one thing is certain: Japan is a nation with a high life expectancy. The average lifespan is 84 years, several years longer than...
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Horny Easter week sale: 20% off Japanese adult toys
The Easter Bunny is, as everyone knows, a horny creature. He brings sweet chocolate eggs for us to enjoy at this time of year, but his hopping energy also has other outlets. In our world, that includes...
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41-year-old Chiharu Niiyama dating man in his twenties
It’s common enough to read reports about male celebrities dating women a decade or more their junior. What about the ladies? The actress Chiharu Niiyama is now 41. She married a famous baseball coach...
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Nogizaka46 Hina Higuchi releases first photo book, fans go wild
The Nogizaka46 idol Hina Higuchi has released her first photo book and fans are delighted that it’s by far the sexiest shoot she has done to date. It’s not nude, to be precise, but it probably...
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Fewer young people in Japan are having sex, but what does it really mean?
We already know that young people and sexuality claims that they are becoming less interested in sex. A new book, though, attempts to get behind the sensational headlines and probe the real reasons and...
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Kabuki star Ebizo Ichikawa the latest to join in the papakatsu dating craze
After losing his wife, the former TV announcer Mao Kobayashi, to cancer in 2017, the top kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa was reinvented in the public imagination as a sympathetic figure bravely battling on...
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Ayumi Ito and Nanami Kawakami’s nude sex scenes in Tokyo Vice
Loosely adapted from the book by Jake Adelstein, the HBO series Tokyo Vice features nude scenes with several actors, both American and Japanese. Legion and Fargo star Rachel Keller is semi-nude in a...
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Forget used panties. The latest fetish in Japan is used face masks
It was surely inevitable. We all know that used panties is an infamous and genuine fetish in Japan (and elsewhere, of course), whose needs are served by various products sold by major companies as well...
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Yuka Hirata returns with first Weekly Playboy gravure shoot in 14 years
A reader recently chided us for not writing about the Yumi Sugimoto’s return to gravure (though we did post pics on tumblr). The truth is, even with “gravure comebacks,” there are simply too many idols...
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Ex-porn star Kizuna Sakura opens ramen restaurant chain
One of the fascinations of this blog is with the afterlives of idols, whether music, gravure, or porn. What do the hordes of women do after their (frequently brief) moment in the spotlight is over?...
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Police phone app helps foil chikan train groper
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s chikan (molesting) app Digi Police (Digital Police) has won plaudits for recently leading to the arrest of a man in his fifties, who was allegedly groping the body of a...
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Anti-vaxxer and anti-masker Japanese politician fathers child with junior...
A 40-year-old political candidate has allegedly fathered a child with a junior high school second grader. Masayuki Hiratsuka, who is the head of the Popular Sovereignty Party and advocates not wearing...
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Syphilis continues alarming spread in Japan in first quarter of 2022
The growing problem of syphilis in Japan is not new: we’ve been writing about it for years now. But it simples that it won’t get better any time soon. Just when you think cases can’t rise anymore or...
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