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{{Short description|Japanese sex club}}
A {{nihongo|'''happening bar'''|ハプニングバー}} or {{nihongo|'''couple kissa'''|カップル喫茶|kappuru kissa}} is a Japanese [[sex club]].  In both, prospective customers pass an initial vetting to become members, then pay an entrance fee to enter the club.  The club will provide drinks at a bar (often for free), rooms for sex and typically shower facilities.  Entrance to couple kissa is limited to male-female couples and single women, while a happening bar will also allow single men to enter, although typically at a steep surcharge (as much as ¥25,000, whereas a woman might enter for free).  Entry is denied to the underaged (under 20), male groups, drunk or intoxicated people and, in some establishments, foreigners.

Happening bars and couple kissas skirt [[Prostitution in Japan|Japanese prostitution laws]] by neither providing nor promising actual sex on premises, instead stressing that what may or may not happen is entirely up to customers.  In a high-profile incident in 2004, after porn star and wrestler [[Chocoball Mukai]] advertised on his website that he would be performing, the happening bar "Rock" in [[Tokyo]]'s [[Roppongi]] district was raided by police.<ref name="mainichi1">''[[Mainichi Shimbun|Mainichi Daily News]]'', "Porn king Chocoball rocks happening bar's raunchy reputation", [http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2004/04/20040402p2g00m0dm998000c.html]{{dead link|date=September 2018}}</ref>  Chocoball, who had been caught in the act with another porn star, was later convicted for [[public indecency]] and sentenced to a five-month jail term, and the club was forced to shut down.<ref name="mainichi2">''[[Mainichi Shimbun|Mainichi Daily News]]'', "Chocoball cleans up ring act", [http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2004/08/20040805p2g00m0dm999000c.html]{{dead link|date=September 2018}}</ref>

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{{Prostitution in Japan |state=expanded}}

[[Category:Sexuality in Japan]]
[[Category:Sex clubs]]


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