Japan's "Happening Bar" is Exposed.

”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

東京とうきょうの渋谷しぶやにあるハプニングバー「眠ねむれる森もりの美女びじょ」が5月がつ7日にち、警視庁けいしちょうの摘発てきはつを受うけた。セックスをしていた客きゃくの男女だんじょが公然こうぜんわいせつの現行犯げんこうはんで、経営者けいえいしゃの男おとこと従業じゅうぎょう員いん9人にんが公然こうぜんわいせつ幇助ほうじょの疑うたがいで逮捕たいほされました。ハプニングバーとは、会員かいいん制せいバーを装よそおいつつ、実態じったいは様々さまざまな嗜好しこうを持もった客きゃくが集つどい、ハプニングと称しょうして客同士きゃくどうしがセックスを行おこなう店みせのことで、日本にほんには東京とうきょうや大阪おおさかを中心ちゅうしんに100店舗てんぽ程度ていど存在そんざいしているといいます。この店みせはホームページで「日本にほん最大級さいだいきゅう」を謳うたう大規模だいきぼ店てんで、警視庁けいしちょうによると2020年ねん10月がつ以降いこうの1年ねん半はんで5億おく円えん以上いじょうの売うり上あげがあったそうです。当日とうじつ、店内てんないではローションを水鉄砲みずでっぽうに入いれて打うち合あうイベントが行おこなわれており、男女だんじょ約やく70人にんが来店らいてんしていた当時とうじ店てんいた女おんなは「私わたしが店みせに行いったのは夜よる11時じ頃ごろ。配くばられたシャツをノーブラで着きて、下したはパンツ1枚まい。みんなでキャッキャ言いいながらローション水みず鉄砲てっぽうを撃うちまくって、童心どうしんに帰かえったようにはしゃいでいました。フロアには50人にんくらいいたんじゃないかな。」と言いっていました。このときほとんどの人ひとは全裸ぜんらで、全裸ぜんらで並ならんだ男性だんせいの列れつに男女だんじょがスライディングする遊あそびが行おこなわれていた模様もようです。また別べつの客きゃくによると、10人にん程ほどの私服しふくの警察官けいさつかんがカメラを回まわしながら店内てんないに突入とつにゅうし、『警察けいさつです！動うごかないで！』と発言はつげんし侵入しんにゅうしてきたそうです。

Words

ハプニングバー；Happening bar

眠ねむれる森もりの美女びじょ；Sleeping beauty

警視庁けいしちょう；Metropolitan Police Department

摘発てきはつ；exposed

セックス；sex

公然こうぜんわいせつ；public indecency

経営者けいえいしゃ；exective

従業じゅうぎょう員いん；employee

幇助ほうじょ；assistance

嗜好しこう；preference

ローション；lotion

水鉄砲みずでっぽう；water gun

ノーブラ；braless

童心どうしんに帰かえる；retrieve one's childish innocence

フロア；floor

全裸ぜんら；completely naked

スライディング；sliding

私服しふく；plain clothes

突入とつにゅう；plunging

侵入しんにゅう：intrusion