Just Another Day At The Office: "The Spirit Of Capitalism"

By Rich McLean: Not all erotic manga is created equally. Sometimes the focus is on taboo feelings, like we saw last week with Taro Shinonome's "Swing Out Sisters". Other times the focus is on straight-up eroticism, like with this week's title, "The Spirit of Capitalism". So let's get right into the weird and wild world of office ladies whose sole purpose is to pleasure their professional colleagues, shall we? It might take place in a business environment, but I don't see how these people manage to do any work ... More »

All In The Family: Taro Shinonome's "Swing Out Sisters"

By Rich McLean: Incest fantasies aren't easy to tackle in porn. In just about every porn video that's attempted to address the subject, you're acutely aware that you're watching actors, that the bed they're banging on is just a part of the set that they're on, and that whatever brother/sister roles the actors might be playing are inherently fake. But when you move into comics, it all becomes real. You're no longer dealing with actors or sets – the manga (Japanese comic) becomes its own contained universe, where these people, their feelings, and the situations become real. This is why I love hentai, what we've come to know as Japanese “cartoon porn.” More »