Unveiling Secrets, From Massage to Masked Escort Service

On May 29, the manager of a men’s esthetic salon “Private Villa” in Fukui City and five female employees were arrested by the Fukui Prefectural Police for violating the Entertainment Establishments Control Law. The arrests were for providing “sexual services” to customers. This is the first such arrest in Fukui Prefecture, but there has been no shortage of such arrests throughout Japan. In Tokyo, too, there has been no announcement by the police, but in late May, a well-known men-esu restaurant in Ikebukuro suddenly closed its doors, creating a buzz on the Internet.

 

Men’s esthetic salons (Men’s Esthe or Men’s Esthetic) operate under the guise of not being “adult entertainment” establishments, and almost all of their websites include a disclaimer stating, “We are not a brothel.” However, the reason they face frequent crackdowns is that many of these establishments actually provide “sexual services.” Users perceive men’s esthetic salons as places where such activities are permissible and often visit with expectations of such services.

On the other hand, when you think about massage, chiropractic care, personal training, head spa, and body scrub services. What do you imagine about these professions? Unlike men’s esthetic salons (Men’s Esthe or Men’s Esthetic), where you would expect various methods of body maintenance, you probably think of them as places that provide different ways to take care of your body.

However, recently, it has been a hot topic on the internet that in some of these types of shops, apart from the regular fees, people pay extra money for extreme services. 

The background is that with increasing participation in healthcare-related industries, competition has intensified. Especially in individually-run shops, financial difficulties have become apparent. It’s noted that such establishments mainly rely on options for regular customers to earn income. Of course, providing such extreme services is illegal. It’s important to note that the majority of shops operate legitimately and provide only their intended services, which contributes to their popularity, as explained by knowledgeable adult entertainment writers.

“In reality, I never expected an ordinary shop to do anything extreme,” is the kind of thing you’d only hear about in erotic novels or adult videos. It seems many people get excited about such situations, as this type of information often goes viral.

One source of this information is online postings. Forums like ‘5ch’ and ‘Bakusai’ have had such discussions for a long time, but their accuracy is highly questionable due to frequent falsehoods.

Recently, there are popular portal sites where people sell their experiences visiting shops as information. While these sites cover mostly men’s esthetics and adult entertainment venues, they also feature quite a bit of information about ‘ordinary shops.’”

There are also YouTube channels that share such information.

 

“Creators who call themselves Adult Entertainment YouTubers visit these shops and share their reviews in videos. Since YouTube is free and accessible to everyone, they often conceal the shop names and blur out the buildings, so detailed information about the shops is not readily available to most viewers.

 

However, some YouTubers sell paid videos where they reveal specific details including shop names. Buyers of these videos then share their experiences on portal sites where they sell this information further, leading to the rapid spread of such details.” 

In the past, this kind of information would have remained relatively unknown, passed around as insider gossip among a few. However, nowadays, users who see the information online continue to share it, causing it to spread endlessly.

One acupuncture clinic in Tokyo was featured as a “place with extreme services” in a certain YouTuber’s video, which garnered over 100,000 views. On social media, there were posts from men who visited the clinic after watching the video, saying things like, “I was able to get everything for an extra 10,000 yen on top of the regular fee!” Seeing such posts might encourage even more people to visit.

But remember, these are just “online posts.” It’s unclear how reliable this information is, and sometimes, there may even be elements of harassment towards the shop to consider.

In the paid edition “FRIDAY GOLD,” the magazine has conducted an undercover investigation into this acupuncture clinic where “extreme service information” was found, detailing the specifics of the clinic, treatments offered, and more.