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Authors, performers, and thinkers who shaped sexual expression and culture.
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Sora Aoi
Sora Aoi (born 1983) is a former Japanese AV actress who became a cultural pheno…
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Yukiji Asaoka
Yukiji Asaoka (1935-2018) was a Japanese actress, singer, and TV personality. A …
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Kaori Kuroki
Kaori Kuroki is a Japanese AV actress who debuted in 1986. As a university stude…
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Go Nagai
Go Nagai (born 1945) is a Japanese manga artist whose Harenchi Gakuen, Devilman,…
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Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) was an early-Edo haikai poet and ukiyozoshi author who…
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Shungiku Uchida
Shungiku Uchida (born 1959) is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, actor, and sin…
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Naoki Yamamoto
Naoki Yamamoto (born 1960) is a Japanese seinen manga artist whose work BLUE was…
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Yuma Asami
Yuma Asami (born 1987) is a former Japanese AV actress and television personalit…
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Dan Oniroku
Dan Oniroku (1931-2011) was a leading postwar Japanese SM novelist who establish…
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Ai Iijima
Ai Iijima (1972-2008) moved from AV actress to television personality and made h…
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Kimiko Matsuzaka
Kimiko Matsuzaka is a Japanese AV actress who debuted with Diamond Eizo in 1989.…
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OL (Office Lady)
OL (office lady) is a Japanese-English term for a clerical female office worker,…
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Fujoshi
Fujoshi is a self- and other-applied term for women who enjoy BL or yaoi. Coined…
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Bishoujo (Anime/Manga/Game Character Archetype)
Bishoujo is the Japanese fictional young-female character archetype in postwar m…
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Transgender
Transgender names persons whose gender identity differs from sex assigned at bir…
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Bisexual
Bisexual is the sexual-orientation category for sexual or romantic attraction to…
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Gay (Japanese context)
Gay is the orientation category for men whose attraction is toward men. The entr…
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Hentai (the term)
Hentai is a Japanese word with three senses: the early-1900s sexological term fo…
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Jukujo (mature woman)
Jukujo names mature women, late thirties onward, as a character-archetype-and-ge…
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AV Male Performers
AV danyu is the occupational term for male performers in Japanese adult video. I…
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Geigi (geisha)
Geigi (geisha) is the occupational type of women who perform music and dance at …
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Gravure idol
Gravure idol is the general term for female talent appearing in swimwear in phot…
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Josouka (cross-dresser)
Josouka is a general term for a person born male who adopts feminine dress, appe…
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Oiran
Oiran was the highest-ranking courtesan of the Edo-period Yoshiwara quarter. Thi…
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Tayuu
Tayuu was the highest courtesan rank in early-modern Kyoto's Shimabara and Edo's…
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Yuujo (courtesan)
Yuujo is the general term for women whose work was sexual service in pre-modern …
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AV actress (AV joyu)
AV actress is the general term for female performers in Japan's adult video indu…
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Gyaru
Gyaru is a subcultural type and fashion style of young Japanese women from the 1…
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Hitozuma (married woman)
Hitozuma names a woman with a spouse, and in subculture it is a representative h…
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Newhalf
Newhalf is a 1980s Japanese-English coinage for a person registered male at birt…
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Rezu (Lesbian)
Lesbian denotes a woman whose sexual and romantic orientation is toward women; i…
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