SM

Tallying the bottom line for Tokyo women in the sex trade

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 9, 2009

Some soaplands have begun offering an increasingly rough-and-tumble range of services

Sex workers bite the bullet with stinky, kinky customers

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 19, 2009

It goes without saying that the life of a fuzoku-jo (female sex worker) is no bowl of cherries. On top of the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, a lot of clients they service are disgusting, scary or just plain weird. Shukan Asahi Geino (Aug. 27) gets some of the gals to open up about their more unpleasant experiences.

SM excesses lead to tragic consequences

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.

Housewives hoppin’ in daytime at Kabukicho ‘happening bar’

By CJ • March 13, 2009

Amateur men and women come together to socialize and engage in SM activities

Workplace washouts seek humiliation at the hands (and feet) of domineering damsels

By CJ • February 24, 2009

The story of a male tennis coach, arrested two weeks ago in the city of Saitama after arranging for a high school girl he met on a Web dating site to watch him masturbate inside his car for a fee of 10,000 yen, might at first seem a bit odd. But according to a report in Nikkan Gendai (Feb. 18), this behavior instead simply reflects a growing response to the presently tough times.