”Sleeping Beauty”, a happening bar in Shibuya, Tokyo, was busted by the Metropolitan Police Department late at night on May 7. A male and female customer who were having sex were arrested for the offense of public indecency, and the proprietor and nine employees were arrested on suspicions of aiding and abetting public indecency.
Happening bars are bars that pose as members-only bars, but in reality, are places where customers with various tastes gather and have sex with each other under the guise of "happening". There are about 100 bars similar to things, mainly in Tokyo and Osaka.
This large-scale store, which claims on its website to be "one of the largest in Japan," is believed to have sold more than 500 million yen ($4 million) in the year and a half since October 2020, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. On the day of the event, about 70 men and women came to the store to shoot each other with lotion in a water gun.
The woman who was at the store at the time said, "I went to the store around 11:00 pm. I was wearing the shirt they handed out with no bra on and just a pair of pants underneath. We were all cackling and shooting lotion squirt guns and having a blast as if we had returned to our childhood. There must have been about 50 people on the floor."
Most of the customers who were playing with the lotion guns were completely naked and covered in lotion. They also began playing with a number of other men lying on their backs in a row on the floor, with men and women sliding on top of them.
Another customer said that about 10 plainclothes police officers rushed into the store with cameras rolling and said, "Police! Don't move!" He remarked.
Various opinions were posted online about this incident.
Response:
Rare proclivities have to be repressed…
What's that? That sounds super fun. Tell me more about it.
If I had known about the event, I would have gone.
I don't really want to imagine the police coming in when a naked woman is sliding over a row of naked men.
Japanese
東京の渋谷にあるハプニングバー「眠れる森の美女」が5月7日、警視庁の摘発を受けた。セックスをしていた客の男女が公然わいせつの現行犯で、経営者の男と従業員9人が公然わいせつ幇助の疑いで逮捕されました。
ハプニングバーとは、会員制バーを装いつつ、実態は様々な嗜好を持った客が集い、ハプニングと称して客同士がセックスを行なう店のことで、日本には東京や大阪を中心に100店舗程度存在しているといいます。この店はホームページで「日本最大級」を謳う大規模店で、警視庁によると2020年10月以降の1年半で5億円以上の売り上げがあったそうです。当日、店内ではローションを水鉄砲に入れて打ち合うイベントが行われており、男女約70人が来店していた当時店いた女は「私が店に行ったのは夜11時頃。配られたシャツをノーブラで着て、下はパンツ1枚。みんなでキャッキャ言いながらローション水鉄砲を撃ちまくって、童心に帰ったようにはしゃいでいました。フロアには50人くらいいたんじゃないかな。」と言っていました。
このときほとんどの人は全裸で、全裸で並んだ男性の列に男女がスライディングする遊びが行われていた模様です。また別の客によると、10人程の私服の警察官がカメラを回しながら店内に突入し、『警察です!動かないで!』と発言し侵入してきたそうです。
Words
ハプニングバー;Happening bar
眠れる森の美女;Sleeping beauty
警視庁;Metropolitan Police Department
摘発;exposed
セックス;sex
公然わいせつ;public indecency
経営者;exective
従業員;employee
幇助;assistance
嗜好;preference
ローション;lotion
水鉄砲;water gun
ノーブラ;braless
童心に帰る;retrieve one's childish innocence
フロア;floor
全裸;completely naked
スライディング;sliding
私服;plain clothes
突入;plunging
侵入:intrusion