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Playful prankster’s uninhibited prancing provokes prudish front-desk staffer

Editor — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:01:33 +0000

In her latest weekly installment in Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 12) the pseudonymous Shoko Harano, a divorcee who has spent three years working at the front desk of a Tokyo love hotel, relates a wacky incident in which she was involved.

Such hotels do not have restaurants on their premises; but as sexual activity tends to give some people a ravenous appetite, it’s common for customers to phone out for food. So as part of her duties, Harano is required to deliver snacks or meals. (Payment for food is added onto the room bill and usually made at checkout. The hotel then settles with the restaurant when their delivery staff comes to collect the dishes.)

This time, when Harano buzzed the room, a grinning young woman, about age 20, swung the door open. She was naked as a jaybird but shyly used both hands to conceal her secondary sexual characteristics.

“Actually seeing naked customers is not so unusual,” writes Harano. “Maybe three or four times a year it happens that I’d catch a glimpse of a male or female customer in the buff. Well that’s what they’re here for — so it’s nothing to get embarrassed about.

“But this time, the girl had swung the door wide open, and I sensed something suspicious. Standing behind her was a man holding a video camera, recording both of us.”

If such an episode were to take place out on the street, the couple could be charged with public indecency. But their being inside a love hotel, where customer anonymity is the general rule, blurred any legal distinctions.

“In love hotels, sometimes it happens that a woman will open the door undressed to receive a food delivery,” Harano explained. “The daytime staff at our place is all female, but a man handles the front desk after midnight. He told me such things occasionally happen to him sometimes as well. For instance, when you buzz the room, the occupants might just be getting out of the shower at the moment the food arrives. (Or in the middle of having sex.)

“The rooms are provided with bathrobes and normally they will put one before opening the door, but there are times when they don’t.

“But what really teed me off,” fumed the furious Harano, “was that it looked like they intentionally wanted to capture the surprised expression on my face in the video. That’s taking things too far, dammit!” (K.S.)

Source: “Zenra josei no ushiro kara video ga jii,” Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 12, page 19)

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Women flee nursing, insurance trade for ‘pink’ careers

Editor — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:53:56 +0000

Ask a gal working at a “pink” business what she was doing before she went into the life, and you’re likely to be told she had formerly worked as a nurse or an insurance saleslady.

In the latest installment of the long-running series titled “The Dark Side of the Sex Industry,” Nikkan Gendai (July 23) investigates whether there’s any substance to this story.

Apparently, there is.

Nurses’ demanding duties mean they must always on the run, and those with a tendency to take things slowly and calmly tend to receive nasty treatment from their peers. And if an insurance saleslady reports good sales, her envious co-workers will start spreading rumors that she “landed the business by sleeping with customers.”

Life for such women can indeed be hard.

“So after being treated like that, I decided to get even by making as much money as I could,” is how one woman justified her career change.

Another factor in common with these two job categories appears to be that both nurses and insurance salesladies may have less resistance toward the pink profession. In the course of her hospital rounds, nurses frequently wash and otherwise handle men’s genitals.

“Nursing’s a sexy job. Sometimes I had to shave a patient’s groin before surgery,” one relates. “If it was a young guy he’d start getting a hard-on right away. The sight of a boner would get me wet, and after going back to the dormitory I’d masturbate to relieve myself.

“I remember how the other girls at the nurse station were fascinated by a patient who’d arranged to have pearls embedded in his glans.”

“I joined the insurance company at age 20,” a former saleslady, now 23, tells the reporter. “Not long after that, a customer told me, ‘I’ll buy a policy from you if you sleep with me.’ The first year I wound up sleeping with 40 of them!

“The worst thing of all was that many of them severed the contract right after we had sex. The realization that I’d let myself get hoodwinked just to maintain that terrible sales quota system moved me to turn to the sex business.”

Other professions whose workers often wind up working for the pink trade are said to include nursery school aides and department store salesladies. One might think that working pink is stressful, but Nikkan Gendai is surprised to be told, “Compared to a women-only workplace, this job is like heaven.”

Men might be hard on women, but women, it seems, are even harder on each other. (K.S.)

Source: “‘Fuuzokujo ni moto kangoshi ya moto hoken gaikoin ga ooi wake,” Nikkan Gendai (July 22, page 22)

‘Carnivorous women’ with yen for men find licking to their liking

Editor — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:06:35 +0000

With growing numbers of hesitant, herbivorous males matched by more assertive, carnivorous females, sex in Japan has truly turned topsy-turvy. Nikkan Gendai (July 17) reports that increasingly libidinous Japanese women have been flocking to discreet “sensual massage parlors,” where they pay to be pampered by young hunks.

An office worker in her 30s who patronizes such a place in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district tells the tabloid, “The place where I go has a membership system and won’t admit anyone without an introduction. A 90-minute session costs 30,000 yen.”

She describes the shop as one unit in a modern building, which has been partitioned into cubicles that have been well soundproofed.

“After showering, good-looking male esthetician gives me a full-body oil massage, which including stroking my breasts, buttocks and asoko (down there). They’re so skilled in their techniques my butt twitches with pleasure.

“In principle intercourse is not included on the menu, but the esthetician might ask a customer he likes, ‘Do you want to lick me?’ and if you reply ‘yes,’ he’ll whip it out and let me get him hard with my mouth. Then he’ll stick it in — the sensation’s so good I feel faint.

“And there’s no extra charge for the intercourse, even if the time runs over,” she smirks.

The hunks, who appear to be the type one normally finds employed at host clubs, range in age from their 20s to 40s. Many are said to be interested in starting up similar shops and are there to learn the tricks of the trade.

“Those in their 20s earn from 400,000 to 500,000 a month,” says a “pink” journalist. “Those over 30 seem to be more trusted by the women and are requested more often, which of course boosts their income. But even the youngest customers at these places are in their late 30s. And there are plenty of middle aged ladies in their 50s and 60s. Many are women who operate their own businesses, or trophy wives of wealthy businessmen.”

According to the journalist, particularly popular is a certain shop in Tokyo’s upscale suburb of Setagaya, where a lead performer in adult videos moonlights. Many of the women who patronize this place seek anonymity, and arrive at the door wearing sunglasses or surgical masks.

“Some shops will also summon female estheticians, for women who enjoy getting off by lesbian play,” the journalist adds.

Even with new shops springing up, demand at these establishments is said so brisk that customers are obliged to set up a session with their stud a month in advance. (K.S.)

Source: “‘Joseiyo seikan esute’ ni muragaru onnatachi,” Nikkan Gendai (July 17, page 4)

Maria Ozawa’s deri heru debut, popularity of ‘land mine’ gals top sex biz trends

Editor — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:56:01 +0000

For a rundown of the top-ten stories thus far in 2010 in the fuzoku trade — that is, businesses offering sexual services — weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 8) turned to Yoshikazu Murazaki, the editor-in-chief of monthly entertainment guide Manzoku.

“Shaking the industry the most has been the deri heru (out-call sex shop) debuts of big-name AV actresses Mai Nadasaka and Kei Megumi at club Muteki in Shibuya and Maria Ozawa at Club Tora no Ana,” explains the editor.

The magazine adds that AV stars had appeared at such establishments in the past but the recent trend has been with bigger names offering their services. “Over the next three months, we expect that even more girls will make their debut,” says the manager of club Muteki.

Ranking second was the June re-opening of Yoshiwara soapland Kakuebi Honten. The magazine supposes that its closing, occurring one-year ago, was due to Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s crackdown of sex clubs prior to Tokyo’s bid to be the host of the 2016 Olympics.

Amateurs, too, are making an impact, with clubs specializing in university students being among those offering employment. “Most people think that the reason university gals work in the fuzoku industry is because they can’t find a job elsewhere in this difficult economy,” says Murazaki. “But in fact they simply want to buy a nice handbag, and they can make a decent hourly wage working part-time.”

Murazaki says that much of this is due to those belonging to the yutori sedai, or the generation which came of age when educational standards had been lowered — a time generally considered to have begun in the 1980s. “The number of girls thinking like this is increasing,” he says, referring to their interest in material pursuits. “They don’t have any business sense. But their ’slow’ and ‘casual’ approach is appealing to some customers.”

Also among the non-professionals are housewives, specifically known as hitozuma, who are considered cheap, erotic and relaxing. Legislation effective from June placed added restrictions on the availability of consumer loans. The co-signing by a spouse is one example. This requirement might force housewives to seek employment at fuzoku clubs to pay off debts unknown to their husbands, the editor postulates.

Other notables cracking the top-ten include the popularity of Chinese massage parlors in Shimbashi, Ikebukuro and along the Chuo Line, the busting of a huge high-end deri heru service and the closing of publication Tokyo Manzoku News due to competition from the Internet.

Murazaki ends his roundup with a niche category: the hazure fuzokuten (loser sex clubs). Girls staffed at these establishments have been dubbed jirai, literally “land mines,” and are very unattractive or overweight, perhaps having failed interviews at other places.

No service, no hospitality and “land mine looks” (i.e. handle with care) — the shops are mainly for maniacs who have a fetish for these types of ladies, the editor says of jirai joints. “Some customers will use them to conclude a batsu game,” Murazaki explains, referring to a competition in which the loser must be punished, “and their popularity is on the rise.”

The magazine lists deri heru club Uguisudani Dead Ball in Tokyo’s Taito Ward as one jirai option. (A.T)

Source: “Kyokushiteki 10 dai nyuusu fuzoku hen Manzoku henshucho,” Shukan Asahi Geino (July 8, page 177)

Tokyo college seniors expelled over project ‘to protect ugly women’

Editor — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:04:13 +0000

Tokyo Metropolitan University, or TMU, was formed in 2005 by the merger of four public institutions of higher learning in the Tokyo area. The institution was in the headlines recently when two of its seniors majoring in system design were summarily expelled.

The two had come up with a project they named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women).

“They went around on the street accosting women, saying they were ‘researching an article,’” a source at TMU tells Shukan Shincho (July 8). “Later it was determined that the video, showing the faces of certain women, had been posted on YouTube without the subjects’ permission.”

The school’s investigation found that on three occasions the pair had gone to Shibuya, Shinjuku, Tachikawa and other places in Tokyo and filmed a total of six female subjects “on location.” At least two of the six had data posted in a manner that enabled them to be identified by name.

The one shot at Tachikawa, filmed on June 12, ran for about six minutes in length. Its opening included this introduction by the producers: “Presently in Japan, dobusu (ugly girls) are endangered with extinction a possibility. Through dissemination of information more women are finding it easy to improve their appearance through cosmetics, fashion and hair styling, and in addition thanks to advancements in cosmetic surgery they are able to boost their appearance to the minimum level.”

The producers of this goofy video were actually dumb enough to include their own names in the credits at the end.

“After they submitted the video a friend who saw it chewed them out, and they deleted it, but the next day it was resubmitted,” the aforementioned school source relates.

By June 17, copies of the video had been spreading like wildfire all over the Web, and the following day TMU’s home page posted an apology from the president.

Then on June 24, the school announced that the two would be expelled from the institution. A third student who had provided the background music for the video was suspended from attending classes for one month.

The reasons given for the expulsion were for having made persons’ images public without permission; causing psychological harm to said persons; and damaging the university’s public image.

Shukan Shincho reports that the families of the students involved have been subjected to abusive telephone calls. From his home in Tottori Prefecture, father of one of the two told the magazine, “I saw the offending video. It was done in the humorous style of a TV variety show, but was lacking in morality and was cruel to the persons involved.

“I first learned about it in late June,” the father continues. “A complete stranger called me up at work, telling me she was in the process of organizing a protest and saying, ‘Do you know what your son’s been up to?’ Why didn’t he drop out of the university of his own volition?’”

Both students were in the process of job seeking, but their future prospects with employers appear to be in doubt. (C.J.)

Source: “‘Dobusu wo mamoru kai’ de shutodaigaku wo taigaku ‘bakatare daigakusei’ oya ga naiteita!” Shukan Shincho (July 8, page 40)

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