It might sound like a contradiction in terms but Japanese adult video is transnational. By which we mean that Japanese women aren't the only ones working in the industry. There are plenty of foreign performers too, including white women (especially if they look exotic). Though Caucasian and biracial beauties often have the most success, you can also regularly find examples of women from other parts of East Asia. The latest in this long and alluring lineage is Tiny Lu (胎尼), the fun-sized Taiwanese influencer and model who is making her Japanese AV debut this month. Tiny Lu's first ...

Piracy is the bane of porn producers, who wring their hands over their lost profit margins whenever their efforts are illegally uploaded to video sharing sites. This all makes it harder to generate decent money from porn, though the adult video industry in Japan is still reasonably healthy due to DVD and streaming sales. What about elsewhere? It seems that people are looking for new ways to monetize porn. Perhaps it is for that reason that the performers in this Chinese porn have opted to wear, literally, ads on their skin, even when they are going all out doing the sex that the script ...

We normally find ourselves writing with glee about Japanese adult video's penchant for parody, in which the industry often reacts very quickly to events and cultural phenomena with pastiche porn par excellence. But this time, JAV was beaten to the punch by porn makers in Taiwan. Netflix's Korean hit Squid Game, whose sex scenes we have written about, has now inspired a porn rip-off on the East Asian island nation. Details are slim, though news about the upcoming porn release is spreading online for the past week or so. With the original drama's themes of punishment and torture, it's ripe ...