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).
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.
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.
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.
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…
Naturally; rule 34 in action. Mickey (and Minnie!) specific, other cartoon mice, original porn-mouse characters…
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.