History & Culture
From the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter to the AV regulation reforms — the historical arc of sexual culture.
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Rule 34 (If It Exists, There Is Porn of It)
Rule 34 is the internet maxim that if something exists, there is porn of it. Tra…
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History of Sentō (Public Bathhouses) in Japan
Sentō culture is the bathing culture built around Japanese public bathhouses fro…
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History of Sex Education in Japan
The history of sex education in Japan runs from Meiji reproductive hygiene throu…
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Sex Symbol
A sex symbol is a figure recognised in twentieth-century mass media as an embodi…
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Sexual Revolution
The sexual revolution was the shift in sexual norms across the West in the 1960s…
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Shimabara
Shimabara was the shogunate-licensed pleasure quarter of Kyoto. Relocated in 164…
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Sexuality Under Allied Occupation in Japan (1945–1952)
Sexuality under the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952) covers the sex work, …
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Shinjū (Lovers' Double Suicide)
Shinjū is the act of a man and woman ending their lives together by consent. In …
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Shishō (Unlicensed Prostitution)
Shishō means women who sold sex without official licence, and the trade itself. …
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History of Shunga
The history of shunga is the arc of Japanese erotic painting from late-Heian car…
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Warai-e (Laughing Pictures)
Warai-e is one of the Edo-period names for shunga. The word shunga spread only f…
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History of Adult Culture in Japan (2000s)
The history of adult culture in 2000s Japan covers the sex industry and erotic m…
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Sexual Culture of the 2000s
The sexual culture of the 2000s names the era when sexual expression's circulati…
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Kawaii
Kawaii is a Japanese aesthetic centred on affection for smallness, youth, and in…
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Otaku
Otaku denotes people deeply devoted to anime, manga, and games. Coined as a slur…
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The AV Bubble (Japanese Adult Video Boom, Late 1980s–1990s)
The AV Bubble is the rapid-growth period of Japan's adult video industry from th…
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Shijuhatte (The Forty-Eight Hands)
Shijuhatte is the Edo-period system of forty-eight-odd named sexual positions an…
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Burusera Shop History
Burusera shop history covers the 1990s Japanese trade in used schoolgirl uniform…
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Kitan Club
Kitan Club was a Japanese SM and fetishism reader-contribution magazine publishe…
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Ohaguro (Tooth Blackening)
Ohaguro is the traditional Japanese custom of dyeing the teeth black: a Heian ar…
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History of the American Pornography Industry
The history of American pornography spans the 1907 stag-film era, the 1970s Porn…
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History of Japanese Adult Video (AV)
The history of Japanese adult video covers the postwar trajectory from the 1981 …
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History of the Condom
The history of the condom runs from early-modern linen sheaths through Goodyear'…
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Strip Show (Japanese Striptease)
Strip show is the postwar Japanese live-stage entertainment genre of staged disr…
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Taisho Roman
Taisho Roman is the cultural current of Japan's Taisho period (1912-1926): the m…
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is the Edo-period genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings on ur…
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Yobai (Night-Crawling)
Yobai was the night-crawling courtship custom of pre-modern Japanese rural commu…
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Yoshiwara
Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, operating 1617-1958. It was …
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Bini-hon (Vinyl-Wrapped Adult Books)
Bini-hon were vinyl-sealed adult photo books popular in Japan from the late 1970…
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Sexuality in Buddhism and Shinto
Sexuality in Buddhism and Shinto covers how Japan's two religions treated sex: B…
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History of Sexuality in East Asia
The history of sexuality in East Asia compares the sexual norms and institutions…
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History of Sexuality in Europe
The history of sexuality in Europe runs from the fall of Rome to the early twent…
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Jihanki-bon (Vending-Machine Adult Magazines)
Jihanki-bon were adult magazines sold from roadside vending machines in late-197…
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Sexuality in Jomon and Yayoi Japan
Sexuality in Jomon and Yayoi Japan covers the artefacts and inferred customs aro…
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Sexuality in Ancient Greece
Sexuality in ancient Greece covers sex in the Hellenic world from the 8th to 4th…
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Sexuality in Ancient Rome
Sexuality in ancient Rome covers the sexual practices and norms from the Republi…
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Maruyama Pleasure Quarter
The Maruyama quarter was the licensed pleasure quarter of Edo-period Nagasaki. C…
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Okabasho (Unlicensed Quarters)
Okabasho were the unauthorised prostitution districts of Edo outside the license…
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Sexuality in the Sengoku Period
Sexuality in the Sengoku period covers warrior society from the Onin War (1467) …
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History of the Vibrator
The history of the vibrator traces a device that moved from medical and househol…
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History of Doujin Events
A history of doujinshi convention culture from the first Comic Market in 1975 to…
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History of Sex Workers in Japan
The history of sex workers in Japan traces women in sexual labour from ancient r…
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Meiji-Period Erotic Literature
Meiji-period erotic literature is the sensual literary expression of Japan's Mei…
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History of Sexology
The history of sexology is the intellectual lineage of the scientific study of h…
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DL Doujin Culture
DL doujin culture is the practice and industry of distributing doujin works as d…
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Hime-hajime
Hime-hajime is a Japanese calendar term for the New Year's first activity. Recor…
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Erotic Content in Youth Manga
Erotic content in youth manga is the sexually suggestive work in non-adult shone…
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Cruising Culture (Hatten-ba)
Hatten-ba culture refers to the urban spaces where gay men in Japan gather for a…
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JAV Genre Classification
JAV genre classification sorts Japanese adult video by performer attributes, set…
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History of Manga Regulation
The history of manga regulation surveys Japanese manga censorship from prewar pu…
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Sexuality in the Kojiki
Sexuality in the Kojiki is the body of statements on sex, the body, and procreat…
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Cabaret Culture in Japan
Cabaret culture in Japan is the large nightlife form combining drink, stage show…
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Edo-Period Sexual Culture
Edo-period sexual culture is the whole of sexual practices and institutions in J…
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Gojo Rakuen
Gojo Rakuen was a former pleasure quarter and red-line district in Kyoto. Rooted…
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Haruhon-shi (History of Japanese Erotic Books)
Haruhon-shi is the history of erotic book media in Japan, from Edo koshoku-bon t…
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Sexuality in Heian Japan
Sexuality in Heian Japan covers sex from 794 to 1185: polygyny on a visiting-mar…
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Iro-otoko and Iro-onna (Lover Archetypes)
Iro-otoko and iro-onna are Japanese archetypes combining physical beauty with ro…
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Kāma Sūtra
The Kāma Sūtra is a Sanskrit classic on sex, love, and conduct, composed in Indi…
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History of Venereal Disease in Modern Japan
The history of venereal disease in modern Japan covers STD epidemics and respons…
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Konyoku (Mixed Bathing)
Konyoku is mixed-sex bathing in a shared bath, the basic form of Japanese bathin…
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Licensed Prostitution System
The licensed prostitution system was modern Japan's state regime for registered …
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Kuruwa (Pleasure Quarter)
Kuruwa is the general term for the shogunate-licensed pleasure quarters of early…
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Erotic Poetry in the Man'yoshu
Erotic poetry in the Man'yoshu is the love and sex poems of Japan's oldest poetr…
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Sexuality in Meiji-Era Japan
Sexuality in Meiji-era Japan covers sexual commerce, expression, and marriage fr…
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Golden Age of Pink Film
The golden age of pink film runs from the 1962 work Flesh Market to the early 19…
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Museum of Sexual Culture
A museum of sexual culture collects and exhibits historical and folkloric materi…
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Postwar Sexual Culture
Postwar sexual culture is the change in sexual custom, media, and law in Japan f…
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Kasutori Magazines
Kasutori magazines were cheap pulp periodicals that flooded postwar Japan, print…
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Pink Film
Pink film is the genre of low-budget independent adult cinema that developed in …
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