The controversial adult video law, which requires productions to allow for one-month contract cooling-off periods and gives greater powers to performers to prevent releases even up to four months after completion of a shoot, was introduced in June 2022. These well-meaning measures are meant to curb coercion, which has been a rampant issue in porn, but many insiders say that the new law's restrictive conditions are too harsh and risk killing off the JAV industry.
Some of the most vocal opponents of the law have been porn performers themselves. Several prominent AV stars launched a petition in ...
We've written before about Aya Takanashi and her columns providing her insights on Japanese porn. As a former AV performer herself from 2016 to 2018, she is in the know about such things.
Her latest column for Spa! deals with the question of why so many underground idols (chika aidoru) are seemingly making the switch to porn?
It's true that porn retails sites like Fanza do seem chocker-block with chika idols of late. One example is Ichigo Nekomiya (pictured), who is meant to be a member of an Akihabara underground idol group and is making her debut (4HMN487) this month on the Honnaka ...
We usually report on FetiFes after it happens, but this year we wanted to offer a quick preview of the upcoming edition of Japan's largest fetish event.
Some of the highlights this year are a pole dancing show, booty-tastic performances by four ladies with lovely butts, a gymnastics show by three porn stars, and a shadow play act by male JAV star Riku Mukai.
The upcoming edition of Fetish Festival is the 24th and features booths and attractions over four floors of a building in east Tokyo.
We have noticed that the event's English marketing has been seriously ramped up, and we suspect ...
Misato Maeda (前田美里), a former face of Nippon TV, is to make her porn debut on Soft on Demand.
She will now be performing as Ema Yano (矢埜愛茉) and her first release (1stars984) was announced officially today and is scheduled for release on February 8.
The 27-year-old from Tokyo has already made a nude photo book, released by Kodansha in September.
Here are some highlights (which first appeared in the weekly Friday in August), showing off her D-cup breasts and her curvy body.
Here are some pics from a semi-nude shoot she did for Flash to ...
The top Japanese porn star Minamo has appeared in an advertising campaign for leading Japanese lingerie brand Ravijour.
She is modeling various holidays-themed underwear items that are now available from Ravijour stores and online. She is also holding a promotional meet-and-greet event for the brand in Shinjuku in January, where you even get a signed Minamo-Ravijour mug.
We adore Minamo and she looks ravishing in the Ravijour lingerie, which comes in an erotic red. In keeping with the "holiday collection" theme, the lingerie is festively colored. A Christmas campaign for a ...
Famous (or possibly infamous) Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, has weighed in on the issue of adult video censorship.
Japanese adult video, despite being possibly the biggest porn industry in the world, is censored: no genitals are shown. This is a strange workaround to avoid prosecution under the obscenity law that was introduced to Japan in the Meiji era. The same policy is used in softcore porn and mainstream cinema, even if the nudity is not in a sex scene.
In a Japanese movie, the makers will simply shoot in a way to avoid genitals. If it's a foreign film, they will ...
Tama Toys has already shown us what AI can do to design masturbator toys with the bestselling Artificial Intelligence Vagina onahole series.
Now comes the inevitable next step: AI porn.
An AI-generated adult video produced by h.m.p. stars a digitally created performer called Ai Kihana (木花あい).
The 35-minute video (41AIBV0001) claims to be the world's first such AI porn release. It comes out December 22 on DVD and Blu-ray.
We will have to withhold judgment until we view the actual footage, but the Ai Kihana's face is attractive, yet does have that uncanny valley kind of ...
Former top adult video star Sola (Sora) Aoi has given her first on-camera interview in four years.
Once the most famous Japanese porn star, and popular also in other parts of Asia, Sora Aoi announced her marriage at the start of 2018 to DJ Non.
When she then announced she was pregnant at the end of that year, she experienced quite a lot of abuse on social media. Despite not appearing in porn since 2011, many trolls still criticized her for becoming a mother, saying it was "sad for the children."
Now aged 42, Sola Aoi has two kids with DJ Non. She gave birth to twins in May 2019.
She ...
The former gravure idol Shizuha Takimoto (瀧本雫葉) is making her adult video debut.
The gorgeous, pale-skinned beauty's first porn production comes out via Prestige's Genesis label on November 24.
In addition to the 230-minute release (CTKTGNI-002), the 24-year-old has also just released her first nude photo book in mid-September as a Kindle and on-demand paperback.
If we are honest, we never knew who she was, which left us wondering if her gravure career was very obscure or she worked as a gradol under a totally different name.
It seems that most of the internet ...
Early last year, we wrote about the porn debut of Japanese TikToker Unpai. This was exciting enough in its own right, but seemed to signal something of a trend in Japanese adult video industry at the time, as several TikTokers made the shift to porn after acquiring a fandom on the video platform.
Unpai was followed by biracial beauty Okogetan and Ichika-sensei.
Like a lot of JAV performers, many of these debuts, despite benefiting from extra publicity and interest due to their existing fame and popularity, are destined to have short careers in the highly competitive world of Japanese ...
