Sex & Nightlife Archives

The incident highlights the shift in sex-related businesses in Japan - and the precarious situation of sex workers.

The groups have made a killing by recruiting financially vulnerable women. Ordinary Japanese travelers are feeling the blowback.

Many love hotels don't like it when you leave before your stay is up. Indeed, some older ones make sure you can't.

The company took pains to reassure its Japanese customer base that information about their masturbatory habits was safe.

More Japanese women are going overseas for prostitution. That's leading to women outside the industry being turned back at the border.

Ex-mayor Ogawa Akira insists the 10+ times she went to a love hotel with another city employee were strictly business.

A popular and well-respected girls bar in Ikebukuro was reportedly the scene of a horrific case of abuse and sexual slavery.

Japan's "no-pan kissa" were part of a wave of new sex establishments in the 1980s. They disappeared almost as quickly as they…