HotelChatter

Tags: Japanese Love Hotels / Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map / Hotel Woes / → All Tags

Are Japanese Love Hotels Dangerous for Old Guys?

We at HotelChatter are in love with the Japanese Love Hotels. The cheesy kitschy themes ranging from Alcatraz to Hello! Kitty can entertain us hours just reading about them.

But the love hotels have a dark side to them and it has to do with the dreaded V word. No, it's not vampires although they are en vogue these days. It's actually Viagra.

Yes, the drug that you hate to see advertised in your email inbox is being popped by older gentlemen right before they check into these love hotels and sometimes the outcome is not always the desired one. From The Tokyo Reporter:

The anonymous love hotel proprietor tells Nikkan Gendai (Nov. 29) that over the past three years, he’s had to deal with two fatalities. “I guess when men are having affairs, they tend to push themselves beyond their own limits. For an older man to take Viagra and then jump on a young girl’s bones, he’s asking for trouble.”

This love hotel proprietor even details the position that seems to be the most fatal. Adding to the sadness is that love hotels are really small so it's hard for emergency personnel to get in there and um...do what they need to do. Sad. We're guessing that old guys should stay out of the S&M-themed love hotels.

[Photo by Misty Keasler, from the book "Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan"]