No-pan kissa (Japanese: ノーパン喫茶, Hepburn: Nōpan kissa; pronounced [noːpaŋ kiꜜssa], lit. 'no-panties cafés') are Japanese sex establishments offering food and drinks served by waitresses wearing short skirts with no underwear. The floors, or sections of the floor, are sometimes mirrored.[1] Shops generally operate under a "no-touch" policy.[2] The shops otherwise look like normal coffee shops (kissaten), rather than sex establishments, although they charge a premium price for the coffee.[1]
Previously, most sex establishments, such as soaplands and pink salons, were staffed with professional prostitutes. No-pan kissa were a popular employment choice amongst some women because they paid well and generally required little sexual contact with the customers.[citation needed]
History
editThe first one to open was in Osaka in 1980.[3] Initially, all of them were in remote areas outside the traditional entertainment districts. Within a year, large numbers had opened in many more places, such as major railway stations.[4]
In the 1980s (the peak of the boom in these shops), many started to have topless or bottomless waitresses.[5] However, at this point, the number of such shops started to decline rapidly.[1]
The New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act came into force on February 13, 1985, which further restricted the sex industry and protected the more traditional businesses.[6] Eventually, such coffee shops gave way to fashion health (massage) clubs and few no-pan kissa, if any, remain.[1]
Related establishments
editIn addition to no-pan kissa, there has also been no-pan shabu-shabu[7] and no-pan karaoke.[2][8] In 1998, four officials at the Ministry of Finance were arrested and 112 were disciplined for accepting bribes in the form of visits to a no-pan shabu-shabu restaurant in Shinjuku.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- Citations
- ^ a b c d "No-Pan Kissa (No-Panty Cafes)". Japan for the Uninvited. 23 June 2006. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ a b Allison, Anne (1994). Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-0-226-01487-6.
- ^ Buruma, Ian (1984). Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes. Pantheon Books. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-394-53775-7.
- ^ Bestor, Theodore C. (1989). Neighborhood Tokyo. Studies of the East Asian Institute. Stanford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8047-1797-7.
- ^ Anahori, Tadashi (1 February 2017). "Revisit the Retro Glory of Japan's 1980s No-Pan Kissa (No-Panties Cafes) | Tokyo Kinky Sex, Erotic and Adult Japan". www.tokyokinky.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ Suei, Akira (1990). "Araki – Tokyo Lucky Hole". Michael Hoppen Gallery. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Ministry Officials 'Demanded' Sex Club Entertainment". New Sunday Times. 28 January 1998. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Allison, Anne (2000). Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. University of California Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-520-21990-8.
- ^ "Entertainment at Lurid Shabu-Shabu Establishment Got Bankers, Bureaucrats in Hot Water". Japan Today. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- Further reading
- Suei, Akira (2005). "The Lucky Hole as the Black Hole". In Araki, Nobuyoshi (ed.). Tokyo Lucky Hole. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-4681-0.
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