April 2009
By Amy Takahashi • April 29, 2009
This month’s arrest of the Korean manager of a transvestite club for employing staff without appropriate visas is evidence of Japan’s increasing interest in surgically alerted men from its nearby neighbor, reports Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 24).
By Amy Takahashi • April 29, 2009
A form of underwear designed to eliminate odor from passed gas is garnering attention, reports Weekly Playboy (May 11). The product line is called Inoidore Shukan Shoshu, a series of deodorized undershorts and t-shirts developed by textile company Seiren, which is based in Fukui Prefecture.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 28, 2009
Writing in Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 28), Kazuo Kajiyama relates his discovery of a “Joso date course,” a sex service where male customers call on the shop, dress up like females and take out another man, also in drag, for a topsy turvy tete-a-tete.
By Amy Takahashi • April 26, 2009
Following this week’s bust of club B in Yokohama for employing female staff in revealing clothing, entertainment site Zakzak (Apr. 22) postulates that such extreme practices is due to growing competition in the industry, with clubs increasingly masking their true intentions to evade strict police enforcement.
By Mieko Shimizu • April 25, 2009
The April edition of the women’s magazine Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, published by Takeshobo, has no lack of explicit personal testimonials. This particular …
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 24, 2009
Available: 70-minute romp in the suds with a lovely soapstress
By Amy Takahashi • April 23, 2009
The Korean manager of a transvestite club in Tokyo was arrested for employing staff without appropriate visas, according to the Sankei Shimbun (Apr. 22).
By Mieko Shimizu • April 23, 2009
The third installment of an ongoing series in Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 23) sheds light on a heretofore unfamiliar topic: that plenty of women are willing to pay big yen for the privilege of getting poked by a sumo wrestler.
By Amy Takahashi • April 22, 2009
Loose-fitting men’s shirts without bras
By CJ • April 21, 2009
A leather-clad female physically punishing a compliant male into erotic bliss is the usual image one conjures for BDSM, or bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. Yet, to spend a Sunday afternoon with the ladies on the roster of La Siora, a high-end club based in Shinjuku, is to realize that the proper delivery of the craft’s techniques involves much more than wanton, grip-it-and-rip-it whipping.