August 2009

Auction house for ‘desperate housewives’ a big turnoff for bidders

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 15, 2009

Club customers paid 5,000 yen for admission to bid on a married woman

Dolls or dildos no assurance of safe sex

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 11, 2009

Wanking has caught on in a big way, observes Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 7). Across the street from JR Akihabara station the 10-story Otona no Omocha (adult toy) Building brims with autoerotic gadgets, attracting throngs of customers of numerous nationalities and both sexes.

Long-term lip service gets geezer off

By Mieko Shimizu • August 8, 2009

“When I first opened up my snack shop, an ojisama in his 60s came to help out. Then one day, he came on to me in expectation of payback. “This anonymous excerpt from the August issue of “Amour Urajoho” appears in Shukan Bunshun’s (Aug. 13-20) weekly column, “From the ladies’ magazines.”

Civil servant’s cybersexing results in six-month suspension

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 7, 2009

Suspended from work for engaging in moonlighting

Lactating ladies nurse customers at Kabukicho milk bar

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 6, 2009

A way to take pub-crawling to a whole new dimension

Feisty females find cherry boys’ defloration a one-time affair

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 5, 2009

Seduction techniques used by mature gals to initiate innocent young fellows into the rites of manhood

Shunned customer stabs Akihabara ‘ear cleaning’ employee

By Amy Takahashi • August 5, 2009

Seventy-eight-year-old Yoshie Suzuki was killed and her 21-year-old granddaughter, Miho Ejiri, an worker at Yamamoto Mimi Kaki Ten in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, rendered unconscious following an attack by 41-year-old company employee Koji Hayashi at the family’s private residence.

Subjugated salarymen opt for real sex over staged ‘sekuhara’

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 3, 2009

In its ongoing series about bubble-era sex businesses that went from boom to bust, Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 1) introduces an “image club” (imekura) that opened its doors in the summer of 1993. Billing itself as a sekuhara (sexual harassment) club, it featured female staff, decked out in the spiffy uniforms typically worn by “office ladies,” whose bodies were freely available for such activities as crotch-sniffing and groping from the neck down.