Japanese sex industry slump?

by Lee on 1/23/2009

The strong yen and sluggish sales have, understandably, caused massive damage to Japan’s main car manufacturers, with a new round of temporary closures and large job losses hinting at further hardships on the horizon.

But that’s not say that the current crisis is confined to car makers of course, and rather surprisingly the nation’s usually far from flaccid sex industry seems to be suffering too, resulting in that veritable mainstay of many merchants, the vibrator, being sold at apparently preposterously low prices.

Tokyo sex shop

Which, as stimulus packages go, is novel to say the least.

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{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Paul January 23, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Ha ha ha! Best advert ever.

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2 yonasu January 23, 2009 at 10:22 pm

Well sex is probably the last thing you look for during an economic crisis. That ad is awesome though, and insanely cheap :D

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3 koy January 23, 2009 at 10:49 pm

heh, I took a very similar picture.

Was that picture taken somewhere in Shibuya?

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4 Lee January 23, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Yeah, it was in Shibuya koy. Took it last week.

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5 John January 24, 2009 at 11:25 pm

Now I am really upset. I paid a full 280 yen just about 2 months ago for my wife’s rotor!!

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6 phossil January 25, 2009 at 2:49 am

100 yens difference I think its like 1 dollar…

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7 jurgen January 27, 2009 at 5:15 pm

judging by the sign I’m sure quality isn’t a factor in regard to the price.

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8 ThreeHeartsFarm January 28, 2009 at 2:51 am

ROFL @ ‘stimulus package’

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9 japanese March 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm

180 yens is much ? or no ? for rotar
p.s. nice pic

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10 jaber April 28, 2009 at 10:33 pm

iwant si oll of sex any own iwant sex jabanis

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