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Hentai pretty much killed Arty Farty porn. If anything, Hentai hurts the American adult porn industry more than manga hurts American comic books.
Hentai didn't do shit besides fill in a dead niche. Those artsy fartsy films were already on the way out once everyone started getting them for free. What hentai really killed was the Western 2d scene. I can't think of anybody who's seen the old serial magazines they used to put out. You have to go out of your way and head to exhentai now.
 
Hentai didn't do shit besides fill in a dead niche. Those artsy fartsy films were already on the way out once everyone started getting them for free. What hentai really killed was the Western 2d scene. I can't think of anybody who's seen the old serial magazines they used to put out. You have to go out of your way and head to exhentai now.
Hentai pretty much killed Arty Farty porn. If anything, Hentai hurts the American adult porn industry more than manga hurts American comic books.
Was it worth it to concede this niche to Japan?
 
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Was it worth it to concede this niche to Japan?
I wasn't arguing in favor of it. The Japanese seem to only use the cheapest cameras around and the sex sounds take a lot of getting used to. Western porn really nails the rough bits by comparison and hentai is better on the comics page than animated imo.
 
Hentai fills the "impossible fantasies" niche, depicting situations and sex acts that are literally impossible IRL (blemish-free beautiful women of all shapes & sizes, naughty tentacles, absurdly disproportionately-sized partners, monsters, etc.) and covering topics you can't really touch with live actors (and that SFX can't quite pull off yet). Of course there's plenty of vanilla stuff too. Keep in mind as well when you're animating, you don't have actors to deal with, any imaginable position is possible, you don't have to worry about makeup or lighting, etc.

I don't think it "killed" western 2D art. It's just doing different stuff. But if it makes anyone feel better, hentai's overall quality is also declining pretty badly too. There's only a few studios still doing any OVA releases, and fewer still that release anything approaching competence. I'm astonished Queen Bee has survived -- their animation is the worst I've ever seen. Like 2-3 FPS. People who buy their shit are idiots.
 
The Japanese sex sounds
I came across this piece on "forced affection" in jap literature which might explain their weird rapey porn.
"Forced Affection: Rape as the First Act of Romance in Heian Japan
by Anthony J Bryant"
This passage, especially the use of the phrase “the sight of her, aghast with terror, was very fetching and pretty” (Note 9) certainly must strike the unsuspecting Western reader with distaste for Genji's manner and morality. We would expect him—if he truly cared about people—to have pity on her, to refrain from his actions. Followed with his bold claim that whatever he wants to do he is allowed so she should “just be quiet,” Genji loses his “shining” appeal in modern eyes. But in the terms of Heian morality, is Genji in the wrong? Of course not, for his actions are his actions, and as the author Lady Muraski herself tells us, Genji is “not a man to do anything improper.” (Note 10)



TL;DR is the woman is supposed to struggle to show her purity and the men get off on it. I don't know how applicable it really is to porn 1000 years later though.
 
No, French 90's content. If you're into nazi's there's also Italian 90's content. Avoid Germany.

Part of the allure of the old ones was that the sex scenes weren't all a mandatory 23 minutes on a sound stage. The old ones were more interesting visually and moved faster. There were also 99% less trashy tattoos on everyone involved.
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TL;DR is the woman is supposed to struggle to show her purity and the men get off on it. I don't know how applicable it really is to porn 1000 years later though.
Don't care; Jap porn to me sounds like a grade schooler getting molested by her uncle. I'm not degenerate enough to get off of that.
 
I came across this piece on "forced affection" in jap literature which might explain their weird rapey porn.
"Forced Affection: Rape as the First Act of Romance in Heian Japan
by Anthony J Bryant"
This passage, especially the use of the phrase “the sight of her, aghast with terror, was very fetching and pretty” (Note 9) certainly must strike the unsuspecting Western reader with distaste for Genji's manner and morality. We would expect him—if he truly cared about people—to have pity on her, to refrain from his actions. Followed with his bold claim that whatever he wants to do he is allowed so she should “just be quiet,” Genji loses his “shining” appeal in modern eyes. But in the terms of Heian morality, is Genji in the wrong? Of course not, for his actions are his actions, and as the author Lady Muraski herself tells us, Genji is “not a man to do anything improper.” (Note 10)



TL;DR is the woman is supposed to struggle to show her purity and the men get off on it. I don't know how applicable it really is to porn 1000 years later though.
I'm sure that the continuing enforcement of genital censorship in Jap porn is a factor here as well. When every actual sex act is made near incomprehensible you need to appeal to some other kind of horny-ness. If you've ever looked at a list of JAV titles you quickly notice that they sort into very specific niches in terms of fetish / type of actress.
 
I'm sure that the continuing enforcement of genital censorship in Jap porn is a factor here as well. When every actual sex act is made near incomprehensible you need to appeal to some other kind of horny-ness.
It's always such a fun scandal when there are "leaks" of the original uncensored footage. They're also not too happy with AI-powered decensoring tools being so easy to get now either.

The censorship itself is also so bizarre. It goes in waves for one thing, based on the industry's current impression of law enforcement's "mood" concerning censorship. During periods where they're really worried about enforcement, the pixels are so big you can count them on one hand. At other times, it's just enough to hide the genitalia while not blurring pubic hair or even buttholes (unless there's anal sex happening on-screen, which makes it even funnier -- a butthole is only censor-worthy when stuff's getting shoved into it).

So stupid in the grand scheme of things, though. It's not like people don't know what's going on down there or what it looks like anyway.
 
You know, as much as I miss the '90s when pornstars pretended they were actual actors, it's regretful that every scene had to be so short in order to fit into a movie. I would have loved modern-style 40 minute scenes of Taylor Hayes and company instead of the cut-to-hell 7 minute crap they churned out.

I find it hard to believe there's nobody left who would want to make porn movies with actual plots, that are actually enjoyable as movies in addition to the fucking. There's clearly a market for it, why does nobody capitalize on it? People want to be entertained AND get their rocks off.
I still dream of a hardcore adaptation of Emma, but there's nobody alive to make it. The porn industry is run by degenerate drug addicts with zero work ethic. The last industry regular who cared was probably Michael Raven and he was a goofy hack.

Endless condoms and horrific fake tits as far as the eye can see?

No thanks.
Don't forget the extreme focus on the men because every male involved is gay, so long blowjob scenes where you see the girl maybe half the time if you're really lucky while the cameraman is nearly breaking his shoulders swinging that camera up to capture the dude's glistening pecks and goofy O-face.


Speaking of actual porn movies, it's time for the obligatory Jewel Raider mention:

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Came out in 2001 and was supposed to be the start of a trilogy. It was just okay, but only had four sex scenes, two of which didn't involve the main actress Venus (who hadn't got her huge implants yet) and were super vanilla. The big deal was that the company that made it was owned by stuntmen who had worked in Hollywood, so there was going to be a big focus on cool action scenes. I think they only made around three movies before Bang Bus showed up and ruined porn forever.

Here's a couple pixels that may or may not be from the movie.

 
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I just saw this in Articles & News, posted yesterday:

Porn Star Ron Jeremy's 34 Criminal Counts Have Officially Been Dismissed​

All 34 criminal counts have been officially dismissed.
The long list of charges that have been dropped include, but aren't limited to; Forcible Rape, Sexual Penetration With Force, Sexual Battery, Lewd Act upon a Child 14 of 15 by Person 10 Years Older, Forcible Oral Copulation, Sex Penetration: Foreign Object, and Victim Unconscious/Asleep.

 
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