# Do Asian countries have "American fetish" porn?
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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 6, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389 "2011-04-06T13:48:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/21 "2011-04-06T20:01:44Z")
In the days when I knew a few young ladies who supplemented their incomes/bought tons of cocaine by tasteful dancing exhibitions, I learned that one of the options they also had was to do a brief stint in Japan, where they said they could make several thousands of bucks in a few weeks, due to the novelty. Blondes were naturally in highest demand, and a number of my business counterparts have what you could fairly call a kinpatsu (blonde) fetish.
I will make a half-hearted argument too that much of hentai anime is indirect Western-fetish, because of the notion that big round eyes are desirable (I know it’s also meant to make the characters look young and just generally cuter).
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/22 "2011-04-06T20:08:50Z")
> [@Huerta88](#):
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> I will make a half-hearted argument too that much of hentai anime is indirect Western-fetish, because of the notion that big round eyes are desirable (I know it’s also meant to make the characters look young and just generally cuter).
I thought it was to imitate Mickey Mouse. And doubtless there’s some mouse porn out there, for those special Disney fans.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/23 "2011-04-06T20:48:01Z")
> [@dhkendall](#):
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> Even though this is the Onion (another excellent article on their part), due to the existence of Rule 34, those searches are something I do _not_ want to try at home - or anywhere.
You could invite your friends to watch and have a party. With lemon meringue.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/24 "2011-04-06T20:51:47Z")
> [@Enright3](#):
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> Just so you know… The Germans LOVE David Hasselhoff
And the French love Jerry Lewis.
Now that’s a really wierd fetish!
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/25 "2011-04-07T00:58:29Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> This information is almost 15 years old, so take it FWIW, but…
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> When I lived in Japan I checked out a video store or two and found their porn sections had a small handful of titles featuring Caucasian women.
I think the OP is asking about “American fetish” porn, not Caucasian fetish porn.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/26 "2011-04-07T01:33:19Z")
A friend pointed out to me that white people in China are often subject to roughly the same stereotypes that American have for black people: good at dancing and the less refined sports, sort of crude and certainly not very smart or refined but good enough at stuff that requires a ruthless instinct or raw charisma, and having of a legendarily gifted sexual apetite and anatomy to match- which is intriguing, dangerous, exciting but also kind of repulsive.
One thing that really stuck out to me was I once watched an anti-AIDS commercial featuring a prostitute. It was a cartoon, and everyone in it was clearly drawn to be Asian, except the blonde-haired blue-eyed prostitute.
I think people had a sexual curiosity about white women, and the impression that they are open to things that Chinese women probably would not do, but you almost certainly wouldn’t want to take one home to mom. Men might brag in bars that they once had one, but serious dating was unlikely (and every American girl I knew who had a Chinese boyfriend eventually found a Chinese fiancee in the picture) except among the most cosmopolitan people. There are certainly “America-philes” there just like there are Japanophiles here, but not that many.
So yeah, I’m sure specialized porn exists, but it is probably more equivalent of the social position of “ebony” porn than “asian” porn.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/27 "2011-04-07T01:35:16Z")
It probably also wouldn’t be America specific. It all kind of blends together- I mean, we don’t usually disaggregate our “Asia” porn into specific countries.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/28 "2011-04-07T03:34:28Z")
> [@even\_sven](#):
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> It probably also wouldn’t be America specific. It all kind of blends together- I mean, we don’t usually disaggregate our “Asia” porn into specific countries.
Who do you mean by _we_, keemosabe?
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### Author:  [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/29 "2011-04-07T04:37:23Z")
Koreans do watch Western porn, but I’ve never heard of any Korean porn that caters to a Western girl fetish. All the Korean porn I’ve seen is full of Korean people. Dunno about other Asian countries.
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/30 "2011-04-07T06:49:00Z")
Do they still have to make that damn annoying dog-toy squeaking sounds like the other asian chicks do?
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/31 "2011-04-07T06:56:42Z")
I’m by far the expert in this field, but a couple of points.
As Japanese law does not allow the naughty bits to be shown\*, this limits the legal availability of uncensored Western porn.
I would guess that there are limited options for producing porn in with Western actresses.
Japanese males tend to feel self conscious around Western women (not all obviously, but many if not most).
The market for huge breasts seems to be filled by surgically enhanced Japanese, rather than surgically enhanced Caucasians.
\*note:
Previously pubic hair could not be shown, and after the court rulings allowed this, it created a new market for what is called “hair nude.”
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/32 "2011-04-07T07:00:11Z")
> [@Huerta88](#):
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> I will make a half-hearted argument too that much of hentai anime is indirect Western-fetish, because of the notion that big round eyes are desirable (I know it’s also meant to make the characters look young and just generally cuter).
> [@Giles](#):
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> I thought it was to imitate Mickey Mouse.
No; both are going for a natural tendency to equate “big eyes” with “cute”. Mickey didn’t start out with big eyes, he got them as he evolved towards cuteness. Stephen Jay Gould wrote a neat essay on the Evolution of Mickey Mouse years ago, I recall…
> [@Huerta88](#):
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> And doubtless there’s some mouse porn out there, for those special Disney fans.
Naturally; rule 34 in action. Mickey (and Minnie!) specific, other cartoon mice, original porn-mouse characters…
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/33 "2011-04-07T07:46:03Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> What would porn be like if the Axis had won WWII? :eek:
The actresses would probably be slave labor
Declan
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/34 "2011-04-07T12:03:52Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#):
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> It’s common for American porn websites to advertise that they have “Hot Asian Chicks” for American guys who like looking at naked Japanese/Chinese/Koreans, etc. But does it go the other way? Are there websites in Japan (for example) that advertise that they have “Hot American Chicks” for Japanese guys who like looking at naked girls of European ancestry?
If there is, would the Hot American Chicks squeak and cry like the women normally seen in Japanese porn?
EDIT: beaten by **EvilTOJ**
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### Author:  [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/35 "2011-04-07T20:05:27Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> And doubtless there’s some mouse porn out there, for those special Disney fans.
Well, Nazrin is a mouse…
But as to the OP, I don’t know about porn as such, but the anime/manga type images on the booru type boards have a _massive_ preponderance of western type girls who could never have been born racially in old Japan — and not often in modern Japan since they really don’t go in for race-mixing a lot — wearing western maids’ outfits, 1930s schoolgirl outfits, gothic lolita outfits and other such typical womenswear they suppose are normally seen on European sidewalks.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/36 "2011-04-08T03:12:36Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> No; both are going for a natural tendency to equate “big eyes” with “cute”. Mickey didn’t start out with big eyes, he got them as he evolved towards cuteness. Stephen Jay Gould wrote a neat essay on the Evolution of Mickey Mouse years ago, I recall…
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> Naturally; rule 34 in action. Mickey (and Minnie!) specific, other cartoon mice, original porn-mouse characters…
[Furry porn](http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/WikiFur_Furry_Central)ers unite!
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/37 "2011-04-08T03:14:08Z")
hi guys, filipino here. what is porn?
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/38 "2011-04-08T06:16:58Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> hi guys, filipino here. what is porn?
It’s a type of jam.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/39 "2011-04-08T06:23:10Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> hi guys, filipino here. what is porn?
I donno, have you tried googling for it?
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-asian-countries-have-american-fetish-porn/577389/40 "2011-04-08T06:26:19Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> It’s a type of jam.
What’s the difference between jam and marmalade?
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