Sex Industry
Adult businesses, their trade vocabulary, and the regulatory backdrop they operate within.
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Fantia
Fantia is a Japanese creator-support platform launched in 2016 by the Toranoana …
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Adult Goods (Sex Toys and Intimate Products)
Adult goods are products designed for sexual pleasure and stimulation, spanning …
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Enjo Kosai (Compensated Dating)
Enjo kosai is the Japanese term for a woman receiving money from a man for compa…
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Fashion Health (Store-Based Adult Service)
Fashion health is a Japanese store-based adult service established after the 198…
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Gyaku-nan (Reverse Pickup)
Gyaku-nan is the Japanese slang for a woman approaching an unknown man in public…
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DLsitePR
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Shirouto (Amateur Genre, Japanese AV)
Shirouto (amateur) is a Japanese AV genre thematising ordinary women who are not…
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BOOTH
BOOTH is the e-commerce and mail-order platform pixiv launched in 2013 for indiv…
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Cam Girl
A cam girl is a female performer providing sexual content via webcam live-stream…
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pixivFANBOX
pixivFANBOX is the monthly creator-support platform pixiv launched in 2018. This…
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G-Collection
G-Collection is a domestic platform selling individually filmed adult video and …
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H!NEXT
H!NEXT is the former name of the monthly flat-rate AV streaming service run by F…
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AV Actress Branding
AV actress branding is the Japanese adult-video practice of building and managin…
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Melonbooks
Melonbooks is a doujinshi specialty-store chain founded in 1998 in Sapporo. With…
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Patreon
Patreon is a creator monthly-support platform founded in the United States in 20…
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Setto-zai (Set Stain Remover)
Setto-zai is the industry nickname for the commercial stain remover used on AV s…
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SOD (Soft On Demand)
SOD is the group name for the AV studio Soft On Demand, founded in 1995, and its…
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Toranoana
Toranoana (Comic Toranoana) is one of Japan's largest doujinshi specialty stores…
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Soapland
Soapland is the Japanese sex-industry category of private-room bath establishmen…
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Underground Porn (Japan)
Underground porn in Japan covers material that circumvents AV self-regulation an…
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Ura-aka (Burner Account)
Ura-aka is the Japanese term for an anonymous secondary social-media account for…
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AV kantoku (AV director)
AV kantoku is the Japanese AV industry's directorial role. Established in the 19…
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AV production company
AV production company is the Japanese AV industry's talent-management agency. Ma…
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Hamedori
Hamedori is the Japanese AV term for first-person, participant-operated camera w…
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Happening bar
A happening bar is a Japanese membership bar where consensual sexual contact bet…
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Honban (full-service in Japanese sex work)
Honban is the Japanese sex-work industry term for full-service penetrative sex. …
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Live chat (adult webcam streaming)
Live chat is real-time interactive adult-streaming where viewers tip performers …
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Love hotel
A love hotel is a Japan-specific short-stay accommodation for couples. Operates …
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OnlyFans
OnlyFans is the British subscription content platform that became the leading in…
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Mistress Referral Service (Aijin Haken)
Aijin haken is a Japanese service in which an agency introduces affluent men to …
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Companion (Banquet / Hot-Spring)
A companion is a female worker dispatched to banquet halls and hot-spring inns t…
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Exiting Sex Work (Datsu-Fuzoku)
Datsu-fuzoku is the concept and support movement around leaving the sex industry…
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Dekasegi sex work
Dekasegi sex work is short stints in which provincial women travel to urban sex …
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Sex Doll Brothel (Doll Fuzoku)
Doll fuzoku is a trade offering private-room sessions with a silicone love doll …
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Foreign-national sex work in Japan
Foreign-national sex work in Japan is sex work by non-citizen women, from the 19…
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Gyara-nomi (paid drinking)
Gyara-nomi is an app-mediated trade where men pay an hourly fee to share a few h…
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Kojin AV (Independent Adult Video)
Kojin AV is independent adult video planned, shot, edited, and sold end to end b…
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Kousai Club (Introduction Club)
Kousai club is a membership business introducing women one-to-one to vetted, fee…
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Offpako
Offpako is Japanese internet slang for a sexual encounter arising from an offlin…
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Philippine Pub
A Philippine pub is a Japanese hostess-bar type staffed mainly by Filipina women…
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Peep Show
A peep show is a Japanese sex-industry form in which a customer views a woman th…
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Refre (reflexology shop)
Refre is a Japanese name for a trade that advertises reflexology but mixes conve…
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Sex Workers' Rights
Sex workers' rights is the movement and concept holding that sex workers should …
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Snack-Bar Culture
Snack-bar culture is the trade in which a 'mama' serves regulars drinks and conv…
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Terekura (Telephone Club)
Terekura is a meeting trade, born in 1985, in which a male customer waits in a b…
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AV Production Set
The AV production set is the filming space and the work of the crew and performe…
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Sex Therapy
Sex therapy is professional psychological and medical help for sexual dysfunctio…
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Adult doujin circle
An adult doujin circle is an individual or small group producing and distributin…
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AV actress secret account
An AV actress secret account is the self-run social media plus paid-platform pre…
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Adult Creator Economy
The adult creator economy is the sphere in which individuals combine social medi…
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Personal fan club
A personal fan club is a membership a creator runs under their own name, not thr…
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Monthly subscription sales (gekkaku-uri)
Gekkaku-uri grants access to all of a creator's content for a recurring monthly …
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Influencer-erotica
Influencer-erotica is selling sexual content directly through a paid platform on…
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Independent Adult Content Sales
Independent adult content sales is the form in which an individual or small grou…
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Independent Creator Fan Events
Independent creator fan events are fan-interaction gatherings a solo creator org…
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Ex-Gravure Streamer
Ex-gravure streamer denotes a woman with a gravure-idol or swimsuit-model backgr…
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Ex-Idol Streamer
Ex-idol streamer denotes a woman with an underground-idol, voice-acting, or idol…
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MyFans
MyFans is a Japan-based fan-club content-sales platform by Tokuneko Inc., lettin…
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Tip-Based Erotic Streaming
Tip-based erotic streaming is the revenue form in which a live streamer escalate…
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Selfie Erotica
Selfie erotica is sexual images and video a person shoots of themselves with a s…
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Pay-Per-View (Single Purchase)
Tanpatsu-uri is the model in which video, photo sets, or audio are sold for a on…
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Paid Membership
A model in which fans pay a monthly fee to a creator-run fan club for exclusive …
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Newhalf Pub
Newhalf pub is the Japanese hospitality category in which newhalf performers pro…
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Onakura
Onakura (onanie club) is the Japanese sex-industry form in which a male customer…
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SM Salon
An SM salon is a Japanese sex-industry form offering bondage and dominance-submi…
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Asian Massage Parlour (Asia-Este)
Asia-este is the Japanese category of massage shops staffed by Asian women from …
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AV Scout
An AV scout approaches women on the street or online and refers them to AV produ…
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Deai-kei (online dating)
Deai-kei is the general term for internet matchmaking services in Japan, tracing…
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Fuzoku-jo (sex-industry worker)
Fuzoku-jo is the general term for women working in Japan's sexual-service busine…
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Girls' bar
A girls' bar is a venue where female staff serve drinks across the counter. This…
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Dispatch-type sex work
Dispatch-type sex work sends workers to a customer's chosen location. Classified…
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Host club
A host club is a venue where male staff sit beside female customers to serve dri…
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Hotel health (hoteheru)
Hoteheru (hotel health) is a dispatch sex business using love hotels for service…
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JK Business
JK business is the umbrella term for services that have schoolgirls, or women po…
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Kiban
Kiban is Japanese sex-industry jargon for a venue, or the act itself, in which p…
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Kikaku Actress
Kikaku actress is the Japanese AV-industry category for performers who work acro…
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Kyabakura
Kyabakura is the Japanese hospitality category in which female staff sit beside …
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Men's Esthe
Men's esthe is the Japanese category in which a female therapist gives a male cu…
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Newhalf Health (Transgender Escort Establishment)
Newhalf health is a Japanese store-based and dispatch-type sex business in which…
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NN/NS
NN/NS is sex-industry slang, circulating chiefly around soapland, for condom-fre…
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Papa-Katsu (Sugar Dating)
Papa-katsu is the contemporary Japanese form in which a woman keeps a continuing…
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Seikan Massage (Sensual Massage)
Seikan massage (sensual massage) is the general term for massage businesses whos…
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Exclusive Contract Actress
An exclusive contract actress is an AV performer who signs an exclusive-appearan…
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Dispatch Host
A dispatch host is a male staffer sent to a female customer's location for in-pe…
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SM Club
An SM club is a Japanese sex-industry form specialising in SM and BDSM play. Thi…
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Tachinbo (Street Prostitution)
Tachinbo is the colloquial term for an unlicensed prostitute who waits on the st…
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AV Male-Actor Agency
An AV male-actor agency manages, dispatches, and trains male AV performers. This…
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Single-Title Actress
A single-title actress is the middle of the AV industry's three contract types, …
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Private Booth Video (Koshitsu Video)
The private booth video shop rents lockable rooms by the hour for solo viewing o…
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Deriheru (Delivery Health)
Deriheru (delivery health) is a store-less category of Japanese sex-work busines…
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Fuzoku (sex industry)
Fuzoku is the umbrella term for Japan's regulated adult-entertainment trades, es…
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Kojin Satsuei (Personal Recording)
Kojin satsuei (personal recording) is the umbrella term for adult video shot and…
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Pinsalo (Pink Salon)
Pinsalo (pink salon) is a Japanese sex business providing oral-line services ins…
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