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<p>Recently, I have been hooked on TBS Radio&#8217;s podcast program &#8220;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.</p>
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<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;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, &#8220;I am married, but I have been in a physical relationship with my ex-boyfriend for 12 years. Can we continue this?&#8221; And, &#8220;I have fallen in love with a senior in high school who is a senior in my son&#8217;s soccer team. What should I do? And so on. I can&#8217;t believe that things like sensual novels are really happening!</p>
<p>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 &#8220;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.</p>
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<h2>The curious world of women&#8217;s sex services</h2>
<p>One evening, I was home alone. I poured a larger-than-usual cup of my favorite coffee and sat down on the couch. iPhone in hand, I tapped the Google app. I checked to see if the residents of the apartment across the street were peeking at me through the windowpane behind my back, and with a nervous heart, I typed in &#8230;&#8230;″Tokyo Secret Base″.</p>
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<p>Tokyo Secret Base&#8221; is a business trip-type sex store for women that has been in the media for a while now. You choose the type of man you like from among those listed on the website and call him to the place you specify. The service is called &#8220;delivery health service.</p>
<p>In these days when equality between men and women is being called for in terms of work and child rearing, there has been little movement to close the gap in the area of sex services. I have long harbored doubts about this, and have had many discussions with friends. I have concluded that the reason is two-fold: &#8220;The Japanese idea that &#8220;women should be modest&#8221; is fundamentally stuck,&#8221; and &#8220;the male reproductive organs are not structured to handle multiple partners in a day&#8221; (by the way, the sexual intercourse is prohibited at the Tokyo Secret Base).</p>
<p>(Incidentally, the Tokyo Secret Base prohibits sexual intercourse.) So why is the Tokyo Secret Base so popular? Ever since I began to hear its name, I wanted to search to find out the reason, but as a married woman, I was not comfortable typing in the name of the restaurant, so I was unable to do so. That is why I was finally able to take action. Once again, this is my journalistic soul.</p>
<p>I moved my thumb at a very fast pace and checked all the men&#8217;s photos. At first, I was relieved that there were no men who looked like my husband. And eventually I got scared and refrained from playing the video introducing the services. However, I closed the site, feeling that I had been exposed to a trendy female sex service and that I had leveled up to a ″cutting-edge married woman.</p>
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<p>A few days later, I had a chance to have dinner with a married woman active in the entertainment industry, and I said with enthusiasm, &#8220;Hey, hey, have you heard of Tokyo Secret Base?&#8221; I started the conversation. As a cutting-edge married woman with a soul for journalism, I thought I would show off the breadth of my knowledge. But to my surprise, she replied, &#8220;Yes, I know!　My friend said she used it the other day! I was like, &#8220;What?</p>
<p>What?　You have a friend who used it? I asked him what kind of service he had used. He asked me in detail what kind of service was available. There are no users around me yet, and I have only checked the website. According to my friend, &#8220;I thought, &#8216;That&#8217;s going to catch on!　I thought. What&#8217;s with the journalistic spirit, it&#8217;s pathetic. She has more information than I do. My friend, use it fast!</p>
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<p>Aika Kanda was born in 1980 in Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating from Gakushuin University with a degree in mathematics, she joined NHK as an announcer in 2003, and left NHK in 2012 to become a freelance announcer. Since then, she has been active mainly in variety shows, and currently makes regular appearances as the main MC of the daytime TV program &#8220;Poka Poka&#8221; (Fuji Television Network).</p>
<p>From the January 26, 2024 issue of FRIDAY</p>


 Aika Kanda

 By chance, my journalistic spirit toward sexuality, which I had been suppressing, was revived! says Aika Kanda. With a sense of excitement, she typed in "Tokyo Secret Base" and browsed through the site. When she tried to share her knowledge with an acquaintance...

Aika Kanda Explores Sexuality of Married Women with Journalistic Zeal

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