The Ann-Project is almost complete with Opera announcing their release for Nanba’s retirement. The DVD is due out February 25.

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“Classy” ladies strutting their stuff on the dancefloor.

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Fans of Sora Aoi can now read her daily encounters in ENGLISH. Sora is trying her best to learn English so what better way than to start a blog.

an excerpt from her blog

I’m AOI SOLA.call me SOLA.

Well,This is a diary written only in English.

Because It’s for study of English.

I’d like to speak English.
But I can’t speak English very well.
My English is not good…SORRY!

I can try.
I’m studying English hard everyday.
I’ll do my best.

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Time to burn more money as Rio returns with a new t-shirt designed by Devilock.

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Come now, come now. Sounds like a call to be reasonable. But actually, it’s an adequate description for the symptoms of iku iku byo (Cum Cum Disease), a potentially deadly affliction suffered by women who orgasm constantly, with Weekly Playboy (2/4) guessing that as many as 120,000 Japanese could have already come down with it.

Though the men’s weekly admits its estimate of those afflicted is backed by nothing better than a questionnaire on sex industry recruitment site Love Bonita, it notes that those with Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), as the disease is called in English, commonly say almost continuously climaxing is cruel.

“Symptoms of iku iku byo are not pleasurable, they’re torture,” Weekly Playboy quotes a 2005 post on Love Bonita from a woman called Mei, a 27-year-old woman who has offered the public domain’s most detailed description of a Japanese woman with PSAS.

“My body reacts to every movement the train makes and I come any number of times with each ride. I’m exhausted by the time I get to work. I orgasmed when a co-worker tapped me on the shoulder and when the mobile phone in my pocket rang, so I thought I had to do something about it and went to see a doctor. I come every time there’s an earthquake and even the vibrations from the music at karaoke or a nightclub will set me off. I’m terrified just to go outside.”

Yokohama psychiatrist Keigo Senda, a specialist in dealing with sex issues, notes that Japan’s response to the threat of PSAS is sadly lacking.

“I still haven’t had anybody with the symptoms come to me for a consultation. I think the condition exists, but because there’s so little data it’s hard to devise treatment standards for it,” Senda tells Weekly Playboy.

“Even though Japan is said to be more open-minded than it used to be, there is still a strong belief that sexual matters are shameful and need to be hidden away and that’s an obstacle to dealing with this.”

Ruriha Iwasaki, a science beat writer well-versed in women’s sexuality matters, guesses that iku iku byo is probably nerve related.

“I’d say that Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome is probably caused by nerves in the brain or spinal cord causing imbalance in the brain’s hormones, which leaves the orgasmic switch on all the time and won’t allow the switch to turn off,” Iwasaki says.

Dr. Sandra Leiblum, the woman attributed with first diagnosing and naming PSAS, writes that learning more about the affliction could prove valuable when it comes to knowing about female sexual response.

But Japanese sex experts do not see much progress being made in this country.

“There aren’t many medical institutions in Japan dealing with sex afflictions like Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome,” a physician member of the Japan Society of Sexual Science tells Weekly Playboy. “Research is progressing on things like male erection dysfunction or women’s difficulties in attaining orgasm, but for ailments where there are few reported cases or the causes are not clearly known, there just aren’t the people out there putting the research in. We’re not helped by the fact that there are no patients out there complaining of suffering from the symptoms, which is one reason why the disease is not being treated seriously at the moment.” (By Ryann Connell)

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Kawaii* have announced new signing, Mizuki Iori, on their website. Mizuki Iori will make her debut February 25′th.

Mizuki Iori’s vital statistics:

Birth Date: March 1’st, 1989
Blood type: O-
Height: 157cm
Size: B: 85cm W: 59cm H:85cm

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A cute clip of gravure idol Akina Minami.

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Real has created some buzz over their upcoming release with an Erika Sawajiri look-a-like. The AV actress named “Erika”, will re-enact scenes such as Sawajiri’s infamous public spat during a press conference. The DVD is due out February 22′nd.

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Ann Nanba takes the role of a rape victim in her upcoming Shark release. The dramatic DVD which is part of the Ann-Project is due out February 7.

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In a Japan where feminine chastity and purity are still widely respected virtues, it’s becoming increasingly common for sexually experienced women to deliberately withhold displaying their carnal knowledge to avoid giving the wrong impression, according to Spa! (1/22).

Though the idea of the fake maguro — the Japanese word for tuna, but also derogatory slang for somebody not particularly active in the sack — is an old one, it’s becoming more prevalent, the men’s weekly argues.

Sanae Ito, 27, a major bank employee, is an unabashed fake maguro.

“It’s a technique I’ve been trying out on boyfriends since my college days and I can attest to its effectiveness,” she tells Spa! “Even back then I’d been around a bit, but every guy I went out with I would tell that I had not been with many other men and then watched him get excited as he promised to teach me what he knew. I just kept on doing it and highly recommend it as a ploy for any who are marriage-minded.”

While dating the man who’s been her husband for the past year or so, Ito refused to go along with any dirty talk and basically just lay down during their more intimate moments.

“We dated for about four years. I had loads of sex friends during that time. I really adore my husband, but just lying there pretending I was a maguro left my sex life a little wanting,” she says. “Not revealing that I’d been playing around is also a form of affection, so I really do my best to make sure he doesn’t find out what’s going on.”

Ito says she religiously removes all records of calls to and from her sex friends, while phone e-mail they exchange is all stored in password-protected folders.

“That’s not all,” she says. “I absolutely refuse to accept any sort of present from a sex friend. Those guys are just basically for sex and nothing else.”

Another woman, a 26-year-old temp worker, says she has a friend who’s also a fake maguro, but says her pal stands out because she actually moonlights in a brothel.

“She’s been working there for the past year and a half and brags about how good her bedroom techniques are. Apparently lots of customers pay extra to request her services,” the woman tells Spa! “She’ll meet a guy at a matchmaking party and tell him she doesn’t have a great deal of experience with men. She does everything in her power to make sure guys don’t find out she does sex work. Her day job is as a regular office worker, but she tells everyone she has to do a lot of overtime. She keeps all her sex work items in a locker at a train station and does all sorts of things to create alibis. To make sure she doesn’t let on that she has sex for a living, every time she makes love to a guy she basically just lies there like a maguro instead of unveiling the techniques she normally uses that always bring men off.” (By Ryann Connell)

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