The high-profile Japanese adult video star Shoko Takahashi has announced on social media on April 1 that she will retire from porn.
This news came out a few days ago and somehow slipped under our radar until last night. Despite the timing of the announcement, Takahashi emphasized that it's not an April Fool's joke. She has also shot down rumors that she is pregnant or getting married. Instead, she says, her motivation for retiring was the health risk that a long porn career entails.
Her official retirement release (MIDV-099) was shot at the end of last year and will come out on May ...
They say that everything is small in Japan. Small cars. Small homes. Small food portions. Small people. Only kidding about that last one.
Sometimes it seems that there really are capsule toys and model kits for everything.
In the latest evidence of this, renowned plastic model kit maker Hasegawa is set to release another miniature "retro vending machine" this July. And the fifth iteration (FA13) of the series of kits, following versions for ramen and udon noodles, is a porn vending machine.
It's not explicitly stated as such, but the weirdly anonymous-looking design and the conspicuous, ...
A cross-party set of Japanese lawmakers succeeded in putting together emergency legislation on March 31 exempting the changes to the age of adulthood for contracts related to adult video.
From today, April 1, the age of majority becomes 18 in Japan, though people are still unable to drink or smoke until 20. The voting age was already lowered a while ago. Perhaps the biggest effect of this change is that 18- and 19-year-old can now sign fully binding contracts with employers without the consent of a legal guardian. Previously, they retained the right to cancel a contract.
This was seen as a ...
How consensual is porn?
The upcoming change to the age of adulthood in Japan and its implications for people signing contracts to do porn has prompted politicians to scramble to make legislation protecting teenagers from embarking upon an adult video career. (Opposition lawmaker Ayaka Shiomura, however, has faced male laughter when addressing the issue in the Diet.)
The situation has reignited the issue of consent and coercion in porn, with some arguing that women as young as 18 or 19 shouldn't be allowed to sign contracts independently due to the complex nature of the legal clauses and ...
As reported before on this blog, the implications of the change in the age of legal adulthood in Japan from 20 to 18 for the adult industry are attracted negative attention.
There are fears that teenagers will be forced into contracts and productions they don't want to make, especially as it comes in the relatively recent wake of coercion scandals in the industry.
The change comes into effect from April 1, the start of the new fiscal year in Japan. Women (and men) aged 18 and 19 will now be able to make contracts without parental consent, which includes contracts to appear in adult content ...
Okogetan (おこげたん。) is a popular TikToker with (as of writing) almost 105,000 followers on the video platform.
She has now cemented her status by making her porn debut under the performer name Roze Kato (加藤ロゼ).
The half-Japanese, half-Black star has an incredible H-cup bust that is exploited fully in the 174-minute release (EBOD00901) from E-Body in which Okogetan basically plays herself. It came out on digital release on March 11. We have yet to see the actual video but the preview images really show off Okogetan's amazing bakunyu breasts, especially her enlarged ...
How much do porn stars earn? It's a gray area, though JAV is a huge industry and clearly the main stars do well for themselves.
There are often rumors about exceptional fees when high-profile women from other industries make the crossover into porn. Some of these are no doubt are just conjecture.
Back in 2013, the actress Yoko Kamon made her porn debut after a career of acting in the 1990s and then hair nude full-frontal shoots (not one but two nude photo books) in the early 2010s.
Then in her early thirties, Kamon was not a huge star but there was a fair amount of interest in her adult ...
April marks the start of the 2022 fiscal and academic years in Japan. It also brings with a major change for young people: the age of adulthood will come down from 20 to 18.
Eighteen- and 19-year-olds can already vote, so this change has already been in the works for a while. One of the major consequences of this is regards contracts (somewhat strangely, the age for smoking, drinking, and gambling -- all the good things about being an adult -- will remain 20). In the past, they needed parental consent to sign a commercial contract until they reached the age of majority.
Given that a lot of ...
Probably the most highly anticipated (and hyped) porn debut in the industry right now is that of Unpai, the wildly popular Japanese TikToker.
Known for her bust, "duck mouth," and sexy videos, Unpai is making a (supposedly) one-off foray into adult video with a release from S1 No. 1 Style.
The 171-minute video (SSIS-00312) by the 27-year-old, whose real name is Sayaka Ito, came out digitally last week and on physical formats yesterday.
From the look of the first images we have seen, it seems pretty conventional. But then, who needs gimmicks and flashy locations when you have a body (and ...
Former porn star Saki Otsuka has reached a settlement with an adult toys maker over the sale of products featuring her.
Though seven years have now passed since Otsuka -- once a top performer in the JAV industry -- retired, "new works" continued to appear on the market and be sold without her consent. Otsuka had sued, seeking damages (and, of course, to set a precedent for other ex-performers).
The legal challenge has taken two and a half years, but was apparently concluded in January, reports Bengo 4.
Otsuki first learned that "new" products were being released with her name and image in ...
