June 2009
By Mieko Shimizu • June 29, 2009
“I’m having an affair with my cousin,” the anonymous female writer confesses in the reader’s column of the June issue of the woman’s magazine Renai Tengoku, introduced in Shukan Bunshun (July 2) “We know it’s wrong, but have continued the relationship while taking extra precautions. When we go out on ordinary dates, I’m excited. But recently when the family got together for memorial rites for our grandfather, we really got it on.”
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 28, 2009
In the summer of 1994, Ero Dokusho Fuzoku opened for business in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district. Its methodology was unique: male customers, who paid 20,000 yen for a 60-minute session, were sexually stimulated as they observed expressions of embarrassment or consternation on the faces of a young female as she read aloud to them from a pornographic novel.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 26, 2009
December 19 will mark a quarter century since operators of the erotic bathhouses became known as soaplands
By Kenji Nakano • June 26, 2009
Cops raid gambling dens in Kabukicho
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 24, 2009
Another sex aid being sold online, as reported in Nikkan Gendai (June 24), is the Sex Counter. Fitted onto the phallus, the device features a motion sensor and digital readout. Functioning according to the same principle as a pedometer, the LCD display advances by one digit with each thrust of the hips.
By CJ • June 24, 2009
A 35-year-old designer attempts to make the subway experience more pleasant
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 23, 2009
Weekly Playboy (July 6) reports an outfit named SunWorld Inc. has developed what might be described as the ultimate masturbation machine. This amazing device, sold as an ensemble called SOMCON, requires neither physical exertion nor imagination on the part of the practitioner, as both are provided.
By Mieko Shimizu • June 18, 2009
“The other day, a neighbor who my husband and I have known for about 20 years dropped by our place for a drink,” writes an anonymous female contributor in the June issue of Takeshobo’s Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (June 25).
By Kenji Nakano • June 16, 2009
Evening tabloid Nagai Times has reversed a measure put in place by a new management team that removed adult content from its paper — a move reported in these pages — and will now resume such coverage, says J-cast. On the first of this month, the tabloid hosted an unconventional funeral that effectively buried its non-smut mandate, whose intent will be to bring back “a paper that is a pleasure to read.”
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 14, 2009
One of the growing pangs of gender equality in the workplace was that quite a few male employees didn’t take kindly to being browbeaten by bossy bitches. In fact they found it humiliating. In the short term, reports Nikkan Gendai (June 13), that was good news indeed for SM establishments like Itaburi Club, a shop that opened for business in Tokyo’s Gotanda district in January 1995.
