Women’s support group Colabo parodied in upcoming porn release

Japanese adult video studio Faleno is to release a porn parody of Colabo, an organization that helps women in need.

This has ignited a huge amount of attention this week, but the context requires some explanation for the uninitiated.

Colabo runs a shelter for victims of sexual and domestic violence called the Tsubomi Cafe, which is effectively a large pink bus. It can often be found in Kabukicho, which attracts young runaways and desperate women who may be drawn into prostitution or compensated dating.

In a very bizarre turn of events, the organization and its activities found themselves at the center of a campaign of harassment by anti-feminist netizens. This even extended offline, with certain YouTubers turning up in downtown Tokyo to harass the Tsubomi Cafe’s volunteers in person. Quite why Colabo became such a lodestone for such harassment is a mystery (at least to us), but the harassment seemed to work.

Amid a campaign of distortion and attack, Colabo was accused by its enemies of fraud, which initiated an audit, though no substantial wrongdoing was ever found. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government essentially refused to help protect the group from these attacks and has withdrawn its funding from future projects, leaving the group now solely dependent on donors.

Colabo is run by Yumeno Nito, who has previous with the porn industry. During the debate over the recent porn law, which was introduced to address issues of coercion in AV, Nito was a vocal opponent (like many feminists), not because she was against legislating porn but because she believed the new law did not go far enough. In fact, it was de facto legimitizing selling sex for money.

However, this only triggered more online harassment and fabrications about her last year.

Many top JAV performers were very vocal too, though about their outright opposition to the law and its impact on the way in which the industry could operate.

Nito found herself under attack online for her stance. This porn parody of Colabo is, in a sense, the industry taking revenge on her and making a quick yen too.

As we have often said, parody is a central element of JAV and there are often quite provocative and very timely parodic productions, including one actually about the new porn law itself released earlier in the year.

In the upcoming 170-minute production (in Japanese: 一般社団法人女性代表 似非フェミニストの闇堕ち快楽性交!!～現役AV女優に起こった惨劇～) by Faleno, which it is releasing on its Faleno Tube label on November 9, a “fake feminist group” called Connbe, clearly modeled on Colabo (or how its opponents saw it), that is meant to help women in poverty finds itself in trouble over alleged financial misdoings. Things then take a sexual turn and a threesome results.

The production (code FTHTD-039) stars Sakura Tsukishima and Miyu Inamori (who were two of the performers at the center of the Sexual Lives Matter pro-porn campaign). Tsukishima is, of course, an industry veteran. Inamori is a former cosplayer who made her debut in porn in 2021.

Somewhat surprisingly, Faleno seems to have removed the production from its website following the release announcement earlier this week, a timid decision perhaps motivated by fears that Nito and her supporters might complain (or even take legal action — the right to parody is not protected in Japan as strongly as elsewhere).

However, the video is still available on other major online sellers and understandably outraged response of Nito has only served to fuel interest in it, sending the DVD version shooting up the sales rankings.