Japanese porn sex encompasses a diverse array of sexual acts as well as various fetishes and paraphilias. Originating with stories and wood block prints, the genre has since developed distinct subcategories such as bukkake (group ejaculation), gokkun (consuming semen), omorashi (requiring to urinate), tentacle erotica and tentacle erotica.
Japan’s porn industry is overseen by the Ethics Organization of Video (EOV). They enforce stringent censorship regulations regarding genital displays; most adult content in Japan displays this organization’s logo.
Blurring the Genitals
Japanese porn sex videos often blur the genitals in accordance with Japanese law; this is required as Japanese laws consider such visuals obscene and require that they be hidden away.
Japanese porn movies often include actors with completely hidden genitals to avoid showing any untoward images to viewers.
These movies are subject to additional forms of censorship in order to avoid legal complications; other methods are also employed to limit legal liability.
Censorship of Japanese videos isn’t done solely to protect its citizens; rather, this practice aims to ensure that creators gain maximum profits.
One of the more surreal aspects of Japanese porn is how it often obscures women’s genitalia with pixels, seemingly going against its spirit – but this practice is actually quite popular in their movies.
Reasons behind this phenomenon vary, but one main one is because Japanese porn movies were mostly produced during times where censorship was in force; Tokugawa Shogunate banned any material displaying nudity from being shown or printed.
During this period, many used literature and art as weapons against the increasing censorship that had been implemented, leading to significant social disobedience.
Censorship laws were not only restricted to adult porn, but they were also designed to ensure that manga and video games targeted towards adults did not contain any content that may contain offensive or inappropriate acts.
Some censored films were even sold at stores in Japan and featured an adult man and 10-year-old girl as stars.
Censored videos are usually only seen by Japanese residents; however, uncensored versions of these films may also be found online in order to reach more viewers and gain them as viewers for future productions.
Changing Morality
Japanese porn has revolutionized Japan’s sexual morality. Instead of basing it on traditional social and cultural values, modern ethics education now uses secular methods to educate about ethics – in contrast with past practices where morality was transmitted via religious practices and customs that stressed virtue-based behavior and personal accountability.
One way this has been achieved is through the reduction of Japan’s legal age for adulthood to 18. This was done in April 2017 as part of an attempt to revitalize Japan’s economy by encouraging more young Japanese adults to take on jobs that were once considered too taxing for them.
Young Japanese have recently become legal adults, giving them access to apartments, phone contracts and pornography production without needing parental approval for making such films. Yet this change has raised concerns of increased sexual exploitation of 18 and 19 year-olds who previously needed their parent’s consent before making such films.
Consider also how stigma plays into ethical decision-making when selecting and using porn. While stigma and taboo may help to keep certain matters of sex and sexuality out of public discussion, they also limit consumers’ abilities to address these topics openly and critically due to anonymity issues.
Additionally, despite some participants’ best efforts to express their emotions and concerns regarding their tastes in porn, stigma prevents these individuals from having meaningful discussions about its content and ethics with others. Instead, many times these individuals must turn to other resources in order to address such concerns.
Hong Kong model was fortunate enough to seek assistance from a local therapist who helped her address her feelings related to violent images in films and magazines. It proved an extremely positive and beneficial experience which she recalls fondly today.
Censorship
Japan has one of the largest porn industries worldwide, yet due to restrictive censorship laws it can be challenging for them to create content suitable for most of its target audience. Luckily, they have found ways around these restrictions by devising creative workarounds.
One way that they do this is by blurring their genitals with pixels to make them look more realistic – something many may find strange, yet also helps create better selling content.
One way that they censor porn is by changing its morality to make it more suitable for public viewing.
They will also change the sexual content of a video to make it more appealing to viewers, in order to keep their audiences happy – which means more money from sales of that particular video.
Finally, they attempt to make more engaging videos than their competition in order to attract more viewers. This is because many viewers of these videos come from countries other than Japan, looking for entertainment and fun that they cannot find in regular videos.
Censoring is an integral component of Japanese porn industry and they must comply with many different rules to remain legal. Furthermore, they have many people working under them who need to be very cautious.
Prior to the enactment of censorship laws, Japanese porn was similar to what it is today in terms of content; still considered „obscene,” yet less strictly monitored than now.
As soon as censorship laws were put in place, they made it extremely difficult to show graphic depictions of sexually-explicit material such as genitalia or pubic hair.
These laws were implemented for good reason, due to Japan still being embroiled in wartime. To prevent social disobedience from taking place during wartime, Japan decided to institute these regulations and laws.
Tentacles
Tentacle porn is an increasingly popular Japanese fetish subgenre. It combines traditional pornography with bestiality and fantasy/horror/science fiction themes; featuring tentacled creatures which engage in sexual relations with females or to a lesser degree males.
Tentacle erotica can often be found animated, though some live-action films exist as well. One of the earliest examples is Japanese woodblock prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s 1814 edition of „The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”, depicting two octopuses engaging in sexual relations with women.
Masami Teraoka is also famous for his depictions of Tsunamis, often depicted with tentacle-like protuberances that appear similar to those found in Japanese woodblock art known as shunga (Japanese erotic woodblock art). For an example from Masami Teraoka’s 2001 work entitled Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven from his Waves and Plagues collection.
Manga artist Toshido Maeda was another prominent figure during the era of tentacle porn, making headlines with his comic series Demon Beast Invasion that was later made into an anime adaptation. Maeda became increasingly frustrated with Japanese censorship laws which limited his depiction of penises or any other parts of human anatomy with detail; therefore he came up with his creative solution of using tentacles to show penetration without violating any censorship regulations.
Maeda pioneered tentacle porn, becoming its acknowledged master. He also inspired other erotic manga artists and anime directors.
Maeda’s early works were often humorous or sexual in nature, yet some were more serious in tone. His most renowned piece titled Urotsukidoji began publication in 1986 and chronicles an invasion by half-human, half-bestial creatures into Japan.
He eventually expanded the story into a full-length novel and anime series that became an enormously successful effort that has inspired numerous sequels since.
Japan is well known for its unique form of humor involving violence against women; some find this funny while others may find it offensive or dehumanizing.
But still, erotica of this subgenre remains an interesting subject to study, particularly its combination of animalism and sensuality that often go beyond Western expectations of morality.
While its creation may appear peculiar at first, this erotic genre has a very long and logical history in Japan that demonstrates both artistic creativity and rigid conformity.