'no-panties cafés') are Japanese sex establishments offering food and drinks served by waitresses wearing short skirts with no underwear.
[1] Previously, most sex establishments, such as soaplands and pink salons, were staffed with professional prostitutes.
No-pan kissa were a popular employment choice amongst some women because they paid well and generally required little sexual contact with the customers.
[1] Eventually, such coffee shops gave way to fashion health (massage) clubs and few no-pan kissa, if any, remain.
[2][8] In 1998, four officials at the Ministry of Finance were arrested and 112 disciplined for accepting bribes in the form of visits to a no-pan shabu-shabu restaurant in Shinjuku.