Japanese Fetish Club Tour

We've always admired the Japanese genius for all things perverse here at Fleshbot, but our respect and wonder have reached new levels after reading this illustrated report at the newly resuscitated Radar Online about some of the more esoteric Japanese fetish clubs, which include "Queen Soapland" (where hostesses dress up as sexy latex-clad race queens and presumably get busy with, er, soap) and "Club Mammoth" (which is exactly what it sounds like). And we're hoping things like Tokyo's "mermaid hostess bar" Fusion—where salary men "pay a 40,000 yen entrance fee to drink and watch foreign women float around in a tank"—attract the attention of some savvy investors with an eye towards franchising the concept here in the US. Sure beats spending all our happy hours at Hooters. (No matter how good their wings are.)

· "Fantasy Island" (radaronline.com)
· See also: "Pink Box Japan: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs" by Joan Sinclair (book info @ pinkboxjapan.com, via Boing Boing)

Previously: Tokyo Undressed, Fetish Guide to Berlin, World's Sexiest Cities, Sexy Japanese Idols, Japanese Panty School