Real field reports and columns on Japan's adult-entertainment world
Columns
What the 'Yoshiwara age' means in soaplands, and how to deal with being asked your age. Taniguchi, with 20-plus years in Japan's adult-entertainment world, breaks it down from firsthand experience.
Columns
Six gifts fuzoku girls genuinely appreciate, how to give them effectively, and the presents to avoid. Taniguchi, with 20-plus years in Japan's adult-entertainment world, breaks it down from firsthand experience.
Columns
What a soapland guarantee is, the conditions for getting one, and the typical rate levels. Taniguchi, with 20-plus years in Japan's adult-entertainment world, breaks it down from firsthand experience.
News
Crackdowns on prostitution conducted under the guise of 'papa-katsu'—paid companionship involving the exchange of money—are surging. Criminal responses have advanced in particular against cases in which procurers operate through social media, and guilty verdicts have been handed down to multiple operators.
Columns
How to fill in the 'occupation' field while keeping your fuzoku-shop job hidden, plus how to explain things to family — broken down by Taniguchi, who has worked this world for over 20 years, based on firsthand experience.
Field Diary
Explaining what a foam body-wash esthetic actually is takes some work. It isn't soapland, it isn't delivery health. Some things you just have to experience to get. Shinjuku's Gohoubi SPA is the prime example.
News
On May 27, 2022, the Law to Prevent and Remedy Harm From AV Appearances passed a plenary session of the House of Councillors and was enacted. Provisions such as a cooling-off period for appearance contracts (four months) and a right to demand deletion after release were codified, and performers' rights were set out in law for the first time. The law takes effect on June 23 of the same year.
Field Diary
A Fukuoka-area health shop, Hitozuma Senka COTTON CLUB. What kind of time can you spend for ¥25,000 over 60 minutes? I went and found out.
Field Diary
Yancha na Koneko Kobe Sannomiya—a place I'd wanted to visit at least once whenever I came to Kobe. I went and checked it out for real on a 60-minute, 14,000-yen course.