62 - Just In Tokyo
slideshows of hot anime sex action. There is sex software featuring
male models; typically in its own much smaller section.
Prostitution
Prostitution is supposedly illegal in Japan. You wouldn't know it from
walking certain neighborhoods. In places like Shinbashi, Kabukicho
near Shinjuku, or Uguisudani near Ueno, sex certainly seems to be
for sale. There are straightforward streetwalkers, often located near
love hotels so you can readily shack up with Japanese ladies and
women from Southeast Asia and China. There are home delivery
services as well; in Tokyo you can order a wicked wife or soiled
schoolgirl to come to your house or hotel room for different sex acts.
These are often advertised by small salacious paper flyers decorat-
ing phone booths and adhered to signposts at night. There are also
"image clubs" places where you can have a fantasy performed for
you. Fancy sex in a schoolroom? An enema from a naughty nurse?
How about breaking and entering to molest a sleeping woman?
If you prefer some bit of discretion there are telephone clubs, places
where men arrange dates with young ladies. If the date arrangement
goes well over the phone, men can purchase affection and the
young ladies can make a good bundle. If you believe the weekly
tabloids, young girls sell sex to afford expensive accessories in a
vicious fashion race. All these sorts of services are available to
someone who has particular fantasies, can afford paid sex pleasure,
and can read and speak enough Japanese to arrange it and con-
vince the pimping people that you are not a dodgy foreigner.
Massaji?
The commercial sex most foreign men will be offered in Japan is
"massaji?" Ladies in padded overcoats will call out and occasionally
grab your arm, offering to take you somewhere for some physical
contact. What exactly that contact entails and how much it should
cost are fluid things. Once I was lonely and looking for a place to
stay; one young Chinese woman made a rather persistent offer and I
was slightly dismayed to discover that she was really only selling a
back massage. Afterwards I was allowed to sleep on her massage
table until noon. Total for an oily back rub and seven hours sleeping:
6500 yen ($50).
There are around 400,000 non-Asian foreigners living
in Japan. The bulk of these are from South America.