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elfsOkay, 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.
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.
