The world media has once again taken an interest in Japanese pornography -- in particular, porn made for and starring seniors. We previously noted the press attention lavished on silver porn star Yasue Tomita and veteran male performer Shigeo Tokuda. Doing the rounds of various overseas media outlets this time is an Associated Foreign Press article about the retirement of Maori Tezuka. After a decade of peeling off for X-rated movies, a Japanese porn actress famous for being the country's oldest has called it quits -- at the ripe old age of 80. Maori Tezuka, a former opera ...

Another week, another sex-themed article about Japan gets written and hawked around. AFP has written an article about Japan's "silver porn" industry and the wire service has sold it to countless other publications around the world. We've seen these pieces before, such as in The Guardian. And of course, it's hardly news. There has been a vibrant silver porn for a long time, featuring a host of stars like Yumi Kazama and Shigeo Tokuda. And it's not just performers: the over-sixty crowd is very active in watching porn, frequenting love hotels, and also visiting soaplands and ...

We just spotted this interview with Shigeo Tokuda in the Guardian. Tokuda-san is 77 and has starred in over 350 JAV flicks, making even veterans like Maria Ozawa seem like newbies. But he hasn't just been in so many because he is a long-timer. No, he only started when he was 60 and so in fact he has starred only in films made for Japan's rapidly aging population's tastes. That this has spawned such a vast library of titles shows the thirst the oldies have for watching someone their own age going at it. Tokuda is a grandfather -- his name is a stage name but his daughter apparently ...