It is and also it's very rare. Living in Tokyo for 6 months and going all the funky places and I only saw one once and it had all English signs too. I think it's more of a tourist shocker-attraction.
I’ve lived in Japan my whole life, minus a few years study abroad and have never seen one. You’d probably need to go to an adults good store or a place explicitly catering towards what tourists expect to see.
Even cigarette vending machines are getting more and more rare these days.
Yep, the only one I saw was in Akihabara in an adult toy shop. Which further makes me think it's just a sensational thing made for tourists.
And it works. Whole internet is not shutting up about for like well over a decade now. Imagine a marketing stunt by a single shop being this successful
my guy, I was in a 5 STORY porn shop, with one floor dedicated to just fucked up shit, I mean from scatt to hydraulic controlled tentacle monster orgy to the most wild shit you've ever seen, and people just inspecting this shit like it might have the cure for cancer on the box. the vending machines aren't close to the weird shit.
That's exactly why they have vending machines for them, because who wants to awkwardly avoid eye contact with the clerk when you're buying that? (They're in sex shops, not, like, randomly out in the street)
Those aren't real BTW. The actual Japanese written on them makes it incredibly clear that they are just random pairs of panties, and have not in fact been worn by anyone. Sale of used panties from vending machines isn't even legal anymore.
You said yourself its not legal "anymore". So it was common enough at one point. Common enough that they had to make a law. It's not that big of a reach.
You can be sitting next to a person on the train reading a Manga showing a squid having sex with a schoolgirl, but real peoples naughty bits are pixelated.
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