Fucking Club Bunnies

How did bunny girls escape into raunchy porn from the comparatively-chaste Playboy Clubs of my youth? How did that familiar club-bunny costume morph into a standard set of feminine fashion accessories in Japanese anime, and thus also into raunchy Japanese manga and doujinshi art?

You rely on ErosBlog to grapple with your important questions like this. If you need porn reviews, a site like RabbitsReviews.com is a lot more likely to answer your detailed questions. But quirky questions about strange porn phenomena? That’s right up in my wheelhouse, just like these 1970s Playboy Club bunnies steering a United States warship in 1971:

Moving on: what exactly is the club bunny costume anyway? Wikipedia explains that the famous Playboy Club cocktail waitress costumes consisted of “a strapless corset teddy, bunny ears, black sheer-to-waist pantyhose, a bow tie, a collar, cuffs and a fluffy cottontail.” In Japan, this outfit is called a “bunny suit” or “banī sūtsu” and has mostly lost its association with Playboy. It is, per Wikipedia and the evidence I’m presently setting before your eyes, “frequently featured” in manga, anime, fan art, and merchandise.

In truth I don’t actually have a great explanation for how the bunny suit became a brandless icon, a signifier for sexy and submissive women in Japanese popular entertainment. If you’ve tooled around the internet a few times, you’ll probably already be aware that this is one of the lesser mysteries of Japanese porn. I mean, bukkake, really? Or tentacle sex? To fully explain the vast assimilative melting pot that is the Japanese porn psyche is a challenge far above my pay grade. But I’m happy to document some of its more colorful quirks and surprising excursions.

You might not have guessed, but it’s true: to write this blog post, I had to learn some more lingerie vocabulary. Men typically aren’t raised to understand the proper words for each of the four hundred and thirty two official types of fancy undies. That sleeveless and strapless tits-to-butt body suit thing the bunnies wear is a “strapless corset teddy.”

Men aren’t socialized to know specifically what a teddy is, even if we like to see a woman wearing them and can visualize in exquisite detail the process of stripping one off of her while kissing. It’s not like women’s lingerie terms are included in vocabulary drills in middle school, either. Thus I would have assumed those ludicrous stripper cuffs that don’t have any sleeves attached would also have some mysterious lingerie-name, but apparently no, those are just cuffs. I took a poll; we men are universally willing to promise we won’t call them ludicrous (or “stripper cuffs”) while the person wearing them is touching our dicks.

Image credits, top to bottom: The two club bunnies about to be gangbanged are by Borscht. The pair in bunny suits flashing bills as they smear their lipstick on a man’s cock are by Pechka-UwU. The photo of three Playboy bunnies at the wheel of a guided missile cruiser is an official US Department of Defense photograph. The bunny-suited casino croupiers spread wide open and on display on a gaming table are by Janong. The pair in the latex bunny suits getting fucked by two dudes in a fancy casino suite are by Catmixon. The pussy-licking bunnies are by John Zhang. And the horny salarymen getting full-service “extras” from the bunny-suited lap dancers are by Isako.

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Maniac JAV From ZENRA

As a horny young man, I was an avid porn consumer — but I was limited in what I could find. Generally, that was formulaic American stuff, with a few expensive (and much dirtier) European imports. If you didn’t have access to a porn shop in a very large city, back then, you might never become aware of the gloriously perverted universe of porn from Japan. In my case, the first eye-opening encounter was hentai manga panels trickling in via dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS) in 1990 or so. And then, for me, came the encounter so hair-raising that I nearly sprained my scalp! Walking past the open door of a small viewing room at the BayCon 92 science fiction convention in San Jose, I caught a glimpse of a grainy, subtitled, multiply-copied VHS video tape presentation of Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. Bondage tentacle sex? Yes!

I’ve seen weirder stuff from Japan since. (Do you doubt me? Type “Genki” into the ErosBlog search box and tremble in your renewed belief!) With the rise of the internet, the amazing breadth and dynamic range of Japanese porn became clearer to me every year. Manga, erotic anime, idols, the whole universe of JAV porn, funky game shows and game-show-inspired porn movies, every fetish and perversion you could imagine. The bottom line: no culture in the world offers a more breath-taking diversity of dirty movies, photos, animations, and comics.

With the rise of the internet, all this pornographic goodness became widely available. But “available” is a slippery word. The Pacific is a big ocean, the language barrier is vast, and often, even the best Japanese porn to arrive on these shores was poorly copied, badly labeled, indifferently subtitled, and stripped of its metadata. It was a thing you could watch, but getting a good copy that was connected to its cultural context always took extra work. For this reason, I’ve long treasured the sites that do the work of offering and presenting JAV in decent quality, with good subtitles, reviews, and (when available) uncensored no-mosaic versions. One such site is ZENRA, the home of “Subtitled Japanese Maniac AV”.

ZENRA movies are legally licensed with high-quality English subtitles. The content is as diverse and eclectic as you would expect from a site with “maniac JAV” right there on the logo, plus more than 1000 titles to choose from. You won’t find a lot of traditional (boring) porn at JENRA; it’s more about exploring fetishes and fantasies that are at least somewhat bizarre. Think unusual erotic setups like porny game shows, orgies, cheating wives, bathhouses, even medical settings gone badly wrong.

Better yet, all the movies are presented with lengthy and detailed reviews, plus screen caps, trailers, and unique supercuts that show several short clips simultaneously. It’s a great way to become familiar with the huge JAV universe.

No single example could be truly representative, but let me point you for illustrative purposes at The Private Parts Guessing Game — Extreme Barrel Challenge 2 (First Half). Most of the screenshots illustrating this post come from that movie. And here’s a fragment of one paragraph from the five-paragraph review, to give you a sense of the detail in these things:

Like the first one, the biggest issue Japanese reviewers found with this series was the “geezer host”. I agree — almost wholeheartedly — that RIRI KOUDA or any other slightly mature and commanding woman would have done a better job. The fact that they could hire five actresses and not an extra one (who would remain clothed thus not needing to be paid as much) is perplexing. On one hand, the male host isn’t bad. I haven’t seen him in other titles, but he did what he had to do OK.

If you love your quirky Japanese porn, you’ll enjoy this site. Have fun checking it out!