Abandoned Pr0n Genre: Anything "made in Japan."

[elfs]

Okay, that does it. I give up on any porn "made in Japan." In the past week I've watched two porn "movies" (more like shorts, each about 45 minutes long). One was called "Red Hot Fetish," and the other of which I couldn't even read the title. The cases on the shelves were both covered in kanji, meaning that I was going to get a lot of digital mosaic body parts. I can live with that. (The smallest of the three "adult" stores in West Seattle specializes in fetishy video, and "fetishy" includes "made on the other side of the Pacific.")

The first was male/female, and the "fetish" is basically that the woman (same woman, lots of different guys) wears librarian glasses throughout the movie. That's it. Other than that, it's a series of degrading fuck scenes where the woman makes noises that to my western ear sound like distress and complaint, but she seems helpless to stop herself or the others from finishing out the act.

That seemed to be the common thread of all straight Jporn: that the woman, while participating in the fuck, is powerless to stop it even though her face, body, and voice all communicate distress and discomfort, and even though her partner's interest in her seems even more objectified and impersonal than it is even in western porn.

The second I had more hope for. It was all-male. Sadly, I was disappointed even there. It was a "prison setting" porn film. Now, in Western "prison setting" gay porn, the "prisoner" always gets to turn the tables on the "guard," and the fuck scenes are almost always about exchanges of power. Not so in this film. Like the woman in the previous one, in this one the bottom is "the bottom," and stays there throughout the movie, mistreated, used, and discarded. He doesn't even seem to be enjoying himself and his "captors" eagerly hold a bottle of amyl nitrite under his nose, not that being stoned diminishes his whimpers during anal intercourse.

Now, I like power-play during sex. One of my lovers and I describe our get-togethers as "throwing power around." But it's an equitable arrangement between equals, eroticizing both a willingness to submit and an ability to turn the tables at any moment. But the fact that this degrading and impersonal stuff is, as far as I can tell, the mainstream of Jporn, just turns me off completely.

Comments

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

Hmm... "...degrading fuck scenes... distress and discomfort... objectified and impersonal... mistreated, used, and discarded...."

So, uh, where exactly is this store?

Cheers,
- Eddie

[elfs.livejournal.com]

White Center, on 16th Ave SW, between 98th and 100th Streets. There are two adult "bookstores" there, and one more a little further north on the other side of 16th. The smaller of the two side-by-side is the one with the, er, interesting stuff. Be wary of your own instincts: I once picked one out only to discover that it was a scat film. For me, the definitive That Kink Is Okay With Me Only Out Of My Sight Or Smell.

[(Anonymous)]

I've wondered for some time, why the Japanese porn I've seen has the women seem very uncomfortable. They will pull up their legs or try to push hands/members away from their genitals, rarely look back at their lovers, and almost never smile... But I suspect there is something cultural there, many of their responses are so consistent accross many women that it seems programmed, a strange twist to body shame where they can't be seen to enjoy anything.

....Jeff

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Have you ever shopped J-list?

I've only bought shirts there, but they do advertise Japanese porn as well.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

I think that in the west, the deal is "we're doing all this degrading shit to the bitch, and the dumb slut likes it!" Alternatively, there may be a sort of "we like girls who are into the kinky shit we're into", which might smack of some kind of equality, but how often do you see dominant women in mainstream porn? Oh yeah, never.

Over there, if I'm not mistaken, sex is *supposed* to be painful/uncomfortable/unpleasant for women, and they only do it for the benefit of us men. Not as a porn turn-on, but as a general rule. Sort of a Japanese version of "just lay back and think of England", if you will.

As for the gay porn? Same shit, really. Just different players.