Love & Sex Slogan Tee

The Love & Sex Slogan Tee features a phrase taken from a piece of street graffiti near Okubo Station in Tokyo: “Love is the side effect of sex.” Unauthorized graffiti is relatively uncommon in Japan, while the Okubo area has long been home to people from a wide range of cultural and national backgrounds, giving its streets a more complex and diverse character than most parts of Tokyo.

UnDeR20 founder TenGuSan photographed the phrase while passing through the area. Written with the detached tone of a medical diagnosis, it frames love as a “side effect” caused by sex. The line is direct, dry, and darkly humorous, making it the central idea behind the design.

The graphic is built with a puff print base, giving the lettering a raised, dimensional surface, then finished with a layer of glitter. From a distance, it resembles pink neon; up close, the surface reveals a grainy texture reminiscent of sugar crystals and visual noise. The sweet color palette contrasts with the sharpness of the statement while preserving the rough, unpolished character of its street origin.