Somebody sent me this picture of a vending machine serving Japanese porn magazines. Notice that to buy the material it is required to introduce a driving license in the slot that is just above the coin slot. I have never seen one of these, I think they are not very common; however I have lately [...]
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Shigeo Tokuda worked all his life for a travel agency until he retired when he was 60 years old. When he retired he realized that he had too much free time and decided to become an actor for the adult film industry. Being 73 years old he has appeared in more than 350 porn movies, [...]
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My friends Xavi and Noe were recently in a ramen restaurant near Shinjuku, and what they will not forget about the restaurant is not the food. Suddenly, the restaurant owner showed them with pride a newspaper article about one of his friends who had just broken the male masturbation world record. The author of such [...]
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Yesterday I went with my friends Ignacio and Take to the Kanamara traditional festival near Kawasaki. The wikipedia translates it as the Festival of the Steel Phallus. It is Shinto fertility festival dedicated to the penis celebrated every year at Kawasakidaishi.
It was so fun, estrange and surrealistic… I don’t know how to explain it in [...]
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Four years ago one of the first presents I brought back from Japan for my Spanish friends was this:
In the middle it is written: 四十八手 (48 arms-hands)
These are the illustrations of 48 Japanese sexual positions, let’s say that it is the Japanese kamasutra. Four years ago I did not think about the origins of these [...]
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In Japan there are mascot characters everywhere and people love cute stuff. There are even condoms who became cute mascot characters!
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Yesterday, talking with Ale, he said to me: “Have you realized that DVD is a synonym for porn in Japan?”. And yes, it is a synonym, at list in a “street” context. If you walking around in any Japan city streets and you see a sign that says only “DVD”, then it is for sure [...]
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“Bento” in Japanese means “lunchbox”. “Bento” can be prepared by oneself at home or you can buy it already prepared in “bento” shops or in convinience stores. A typical “bento” has a white rice, pickles and a “main dish”. The way you fit the food inside the “bento” is very important and some people take [...]
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20-30 years ago there were many trash bins called “Shiroi Posto” (白いポスト - White mailbox). Nowadays you can still found some “Shiroi Posto” in little villages around Japan, but they are not very common.
These trash cans/mailboxes are used to dispose magazines, films, or whatever erotic/pornographic good that you don’t want to have at home in [...]
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The weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in Akihabara are used panties vending machines. But Dannychoo found something even more weird, a place where you can buy pretty realistic dolls with big boobs. If you want one of these “beautiful android women” it will cost you more than 500.000 yen. Usually these dolls are sold on [...]
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