Aika Kanda Explores Sexuality of Married Women with Journalistic Zeal

Recently, I have been hooked on TBS Radio’s podcast program “Kayoko Okubo Torabura LOVE. Whenever I find time to free my ears while cooking or folding laundry, I listen to the past broadcasts, starting with the latest episode.

The personality is Kayoko Okubo, of the comedy duo Oshizu. It is not the usual lukewarm love counseling program for young girls, but rather a program that amusingly addresses the sexual problems of adult women up to their 50s and offers Okubo’s own solutions. Thanks to this program, I have recently become very interested in the real sexual situations of married women. The problems that listeners are asking me about are quite astonishing. I’m newly married and happy, but I want to have physical relations with my old lover again. How many years can I contact him again? Or, “I am married, but I have been in a physical relationship with my ex-boyfriend for 12 years. Can we continue this?” And, “I have fallen in love with a senior in high school who is a senior in my son’s soccer team. What should I do? And so on. I can’t believe that things like sensual novels are really happening!

I have always thought that marriage is a contract to love only the man you are married to for the rest of your life and never to favor any other man. Even feeling “cool! is an act that lacks the dignity and awareness of being a wife. I am not currently interested in any man other than my husband, nor do I want to fall in love with a man other than my husband. However, I began to think that if the married women of the world are living up to their feelings, I might as well revive some of the journalistic spirit about sex that I had suppressed after my marriage.　I began to think.