Japanese adult video parodies Indonesian sex tourism scandal

A few weeks ago, controversy erupted over a Japanese man’s posts on social media boasting about paying for sex from underage sex workers in Indonesia.

In posts going back to at least 2024, he brazenly wrote about how he was looking forward to having sex with these “living onaholes” aged 16 or 17, and was going to “creampie” them.

It inevitably led to outrage online last month. Angry Indonesians found further examples of other Japanese men boasting about their supposed exploits. Warnings were issued by the Japanese embassy and government that child prostitution is illegal. Police in Jakarta have launched an investigation into Japanese citizens exploiting underage locals.

And now we get the inevitable adult video parody, which is likely to stoke the flames of controversy yet further.

Given the cooling-off period that new porn legislation demands, it is harder for the industry to respond quickly to such controversial and topical subjects.

The reaction to the Jakarta-themed 3D virtual reality porn release from SOD has been febrile, particularly from Indonesians. It was announced on May 28 (suggesting that it was already in development, since the legally necessary cooling-off period would make a release in the same month as the original controversy unlikely).

SOD Create blithely announced the start of streaming with the suggestive statement that “things in Jakarta are hot right now.”

The AV is a POV-shot VR release with a storyline in which the viewer is a man who pays for sex with a young, very small local in Jakarta. The action takes place in a sordid room in a hut. Given the sensitive nature of this release, we have refrained from posting explicit preview images (though it should go without saying that SOD Create would have made the production in Japan, not Jakarta, and with performers above the legal age).

However, the original link to the streaming release has disappeared, suggesting it has been permanently pulled from circulation, or at least taken offline temporarily while the controversy abates. It would not be the first time that a porn parody went too far and was cancelled. A similar fate befell SOD Create’s porn based on the DJ Soda groping incident.

Though there is concern about sex tourism in Japan with the prominence of young streetwalkers in Okubo Park in Kabukicho, Tokyo, the issue has usually been the other way around, with Japanese male sex tourists first frequenting places like South Korea decades ago, and then Southeast Asia. Corporate business trips or “golf vacations” was a common euphemism for salarymen behaving badly abroad.

Given the historical context of Japanese’s wartime invasion of the region and the sexual exploitation that accompanied the military takeover of territories, this is an especially sensitive issue for Indonesians as well as Japanese anti-porn and anti-prostitution campaigners.

And while the cheap yen has likely impacted the numbers of such male sex tourists in Jakarta, they clearly still exist. As does an apparent audience for a porn parody of this sad situation.