Skirts are left on”… “Unexpected measures” initiated by the adult entertainment industry in the wake of the exposé of the largest pin salon in the Shibuya industry.

The Impact of the Industry’s Largest Exposure

The year 2022 was marked by a number of large-scale sex-related exposures, including orgies and happening bars. All of them resulted in the arrest of the perpetrators on charges of public indecency, but did you know that a major group in the adult entertainment industry was also exposed?

On November 5, 2022, the pink salon “Sukkiri” in Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, was exposed. According to investigators, “a female staff member in her 20s was raiding the very place where she was providing sexual services to a male customer in his 30s. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested the two men, as well as the manager and eight others, on suspicion of public indecency.

About a month after the store was uncovered, the chairman and president of “Komei,” the corporation that ran “Sukkiri,” were also arrested on suspicion of public indecency and other charges. Komei” operates more than 20 pin salons mainly in Tokyo. The company claimed to be the largest in the industry.

In the adult entertainment industry, it is a common practice for customers and female staff to engage in indecent acts as a “natural course of events. However, at “Sukkiri,” the box seats are semi-private rooms. The situation was such that the play was visible to an unspecified number of people.

Pinsaro is a type of adult entertainment establishment that provides sexual services by hand or mouth, and is known as a low-priced adult entertainment establishment compared to other types of establishments such as soapland, with prices ranging from several thousand yen for 30 minutes. After paying the fee in advance, customers are guided to a semi-private box seat in the store. A female staff member arrives and sexual services begin. …… is the basic flow of the service.