Though you wouldn’t think it, Japan has one of the most innovative and exceptionally kinky sex cultures. From pornographic cartoons and comics, to a variety of fantasy love motels, host clubs, bondage venues, sex doll rentals, and S&M, Japan caters to almost every sex fetish.
So, whether you want to get in on the action, want to spice up your sex life, or you’re just plain “curious,” below you will find everything you want to know.
Low Kink
1) Hentai: If explicit animation is you’re thing, you’re in luck. Hentai comics and movies can be purchased in almost every convenience and bookstore throughout Japan. With themes ranging from schoolgirls to intense tentacle sex, it can get pretty kinky.
2) Host Clubs: Host Clubs can be found throughout Japan’s night life districts and cater to both women and men with large disposable incomes. Basically, the client expects their Hosts to show them a good time and the hosts do anything the client wants, all the while encouraging them to buy more champagne. So, if you don’t mind paying for a few 10,000$ bottles of champagne, you may want to give a host club a try.
3) Oshouji: Oshouji is an ancient tradition and refers to the writing of degrading words in calligraphy on your partner. Definitely one of the more artistic fetishes Japan has to offer.
Medium Kink
1) Prostitution: Prostitution is extremely common in Japan. In almost every major city Japanese or foreign prostitutes are abound and obvious to spot. While technically prostitution on the street is illegal, there are a number of places, such as soap land, where one can pay in exchange for sex legally.
2) Love Motels: Practically any scene you can imagine you can find at a Japanese love motel. Rooms can be rented by the hour or night, and some start from as little as 80$ a night. So, if you are only planning to stay one night, and are looking for an experience, you might want to give a love motel a try.
3) Nyotaimori: Nyotaimori connotes the act of eating food, often sushi, off a woman’s naked body. Since this is usually reserved to expensive restaurants, it is often a luxury for high paid salary men.
High Kink
1) Sex Doll Rental: With new advances in silicone technology, sex dolls have become remarkably life like. To own one will set you back around 10,000$ while rental prices cost around 100$ an hour.
2) Bondage: While many of you know what bondage is, you probably didn’t know it was invented in Japan. Bondage is as old as the Geisha and is considered an art form. Like the tea ceremony, attention to detail is paramount and practitioners often conduct bondage with a degree of ritual.
3) Tsubashanpu: In tsubashanpu, one man lies on the ground and has hundreds of girls spit in his face. All I have to say is, to each his own.
4) Bukakke: Literally meaning “Splash,” bukakke is the female incarnation of tsubashanpu. But instead of using spit, another medium is employed. If you feel so inclined, Google it.
5) Unagi: Unagi literally means eel and the same word can be used to order eel sushi. However, for one fetish porn series, unagi refers to the insertion of a live eel into a woman’s vagina. Only a true seafood lover could do that.
3) S&M: Or Sadomasochism is basically torture through pins, whips, clamps or any other pain-inflicting device. And in Japan there are actually businesses that cater specifically to this type of fetish.
So Why Is Japan So Kinky?
Unlike the West, where papal decrees demonized the body and sex as innately sinful, Japan was never exposed to such ideas. In fact, to the ancient Japanese, such a concept would have been looked upon as completely ridiculous.
For them, the pleasure offered through sex was comparable to attaining enlightenment. And every effort was made to prolong the orgasm and maintain a heavenly state. In the result, from dildos to anal beads, a variety of sex toys were pioneered in ancient Japan.
Heightened sexual pleasure wasn’t the only passion of the early Japanese. Like many cultures around the world, an obsession with fertility was also salient. This is best illustrated through the many erotic paintings in which male and female genitalia are epically enlarged.
Accordingly, many of the sexual taboos that have defined western society and law, are non-existent in Japan. These taboos include incest and sodomy to name a few. In some cases, mother’s will fulfill their sons sexual urges in order to ensure that they are not distracted from their studies. While some of these practices are technically defined as illegal in Japan, the government stance is largely one of, what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors.
Due to Japans aversion of western ideologies and policy of Isolationism throughout the ages, the sex culture of modern Japan, as you have probably noticed, is one of the most unique and liberal in the world.
azhan says
I’ll never see intelligent Japanese men the same way again!
The Runaway Guide says
hahaha, they are pretty kinky. Not all of them of course but a lot I think.
Chris Walker-Bush says
Haha, love it. The Japanese obsession with sex and the act being a degrading thing to women really is an interesting insight into their culture as a whole. I noticed similar tastes were common in neighboring South Korea as well.
Ed says
I’m learning a lot from this post man! Ahh, Japan. Haven’t been there yet.
The Runaway Guide says
you should go!
Micamyx|Senyorita says
When I hear Kinky Japan, Maria Ozawa automatically enters my mind LOL!
The Runaway Guide says
Mine too, she is kinky sexy Japan lol.
Sherry says
One other kinky thing I saw in Japan was used female underwear in vending machines. What does one do with those things? Maybe my imagination is not kinky enough. And why’d you have to mention the eels? I can’t eat unagi ever again and they’re so yummy, too.
The Runaway Guide says
Hahah, I know, I feel the same way about unagi now too.
Raymond @ Man On The Lam says
Your Unagi description gave me the willies. Like you said, to each his (or her) own… :)
The Runaway Guide says
haha, me too, funky stuff ><.
Lonraidr says
Imagination… I never wanted to try it before, but knowing that now I have to try it! The lucky life of an eel.
Nomadic Samuel says
I wish more countries/cultures would adapt the Japanese way of thinking with regards to sex. Feeling guilty is just ridiculous – just look at how much fun they have :)
The Runaway Guide says
I hear ya, the Japanese do have a lot of kinky fun.
flipnomad says
i remember when i first went to japan, i was surprised to see (some) manga shops in akihabara also sells porn vids and sex toys :-)
The Runaway Guide says
Hahah, me too. Akihabara was one of the very first places I went when I first when to Japan. And I was amazed at all the anime porn and maids cafes. The Japanese are special people lol.
Robyn says
wow…the whole “mother’s will fulfill their sons sexual urges in order to ensure that they are not distracted from their studies” really caught me off guard. You’d think they would just put out the money and buy the kid a prostitute…
The Runaway Guide says
Yea, it’s hard to fathom cause it’s so taboo in the west with Oedipus and all.
Valerie Hamer says
Having lived in Japan for many years this brought back many memories. (Ha, that sounds kind of wrong!)
I’m surprised you listed prostitution in the mddle, whereas the hentai anime was low! When you’ve had that stuff at eye level when it’s read on the commuter train, well it’s less than pleasant sometimes!
Great read. Thanks. Oh and ‘renting’ a blow up doll? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
The Runaway Guide says
Hahaha, I’m glad it made you natsukashi! You’re right, maybe I should switch up prostitution and hentai. Learning about the dolls, part of me kind of wants to give it a go >< lol. For a 100 bucks though, why wouldn't those lonely otaku and salary men just get a prositute?
Valerie Hamer says
I posted this to Facebook and it definitely attracted a lot of comments, from friends who I met there and others.
I would say that a real woman in any form is too much for the guys who buy/rent those dolls. Major ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww on that one. :)
The Runaway Guide says
I completely agree.
Torre – Fearful Adventurer says
Gulp. I used to love unagi … now I’m not so sure.
The Runaway Guide says
Hahah, you know, I love unagi too and now it will never be the same to me.