Anybody familiar with porno video in non-US countries? Or is it all about the same? Does each country that produces it have some sort of that-country-only fetish or style?
Uh, I could be wrong on this, but IIRC in Japan you’re not allowed to show any pubic hair in porn. ::shrug::
British porn is absolutely pathetic. And that’s all I’m gonna say.
Some countries produce porn that is illegal to make or distribute in the USA, either due to age of consent differences or obscenity laws (you won’t find bestiality videos at your local porn shot, and it’s not because they wouldn’t sell).
That should be ‘shop’, not ‘shot’.
All the porn videos I see in Australia at the video store are all rated R, so I doubt they’d show everything.
IIRC, this law changed in 1994, and now pubic hair is allowed.
China Guy is correct about the law (don’t know if the year is correct, but probably is). You can see pubic hair (briefly) in the non-porn japanese film Non Stop (Dangan ranna). Now some Japanese porn on the other hand…:eek:
I’ve only seen R-rated (ie, restricted to 18+) porn too.
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Lately, I’ve noticed that Blockbuster et al like to scatter their porn amongst the new releases. In the old days (read: 80s :)), I remember porn had it’s own shelving - or even a separate room. Now, it lurks innocuous amongst the other videos. So next to *Shrek *(G) and *Toy Story 2 *(G) might be Hidden Desires (R18, warning: contains high level scenes). Bizarre!
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Well, I can say that in a lot of Japanese porn it seems the women don’t do much sex wise. It seems that the directors do not want to portray strong and agressive women. So the money shot typically has them laying on their back with their eyes closed with very little acknowledgement of the shot itself.
Plus the Japanese make these interesting things called AV movies where they spend a whole video on one girl who lookslike a typical girl next door type. It builds slowly looking like a Playboy video in the beginning. They walk around parks in school girl outfits. Answer questions which I can’t understand. Then maybe they frolick naked in some garden. They interview them. And then they have the sex at the end.
my :eek: covered the Japanese films where women pour something on themselves (honey?) and a dog licks it off. I don’t know who that turns on, nor do i want to know them.
From what I was able to find on the Net, the law wasn’t actually changed. It was simply the interpretation of the law that changed when a magazine started publishing “hair nude” (nude photos with pubic hair visible) in 1994 and no legal action was taken against them. Now everyone publishes them. I believe anything more explicit than a superficial view of pubic hair is still considered illegal.
Allow me to name myself the resident Japanese porn expert.
Fortunately for porn lovers all along the archipelago, pubic hair is now kosher in Japanese porn, and has been for a number of years. When it first became legal, magazines specializing in pictures of it invented a new genre: “Hair Nude.” No kidding.
Unfortunately, penetration, beaver shots, and pictures of erect penises are a no-no. All mainstream porn videos are covered in “mosaic,” and annoying computer-produced blur that covers all the important parts.
HOWEVER, if you can locate some of the seedy underground porno shops, they sell un-adulterated porn videos. But they’ll make you pay. Or at the very least, they’ll make you buy 10 at a time. Most of these places deliver though.
Since there are some mainstream foreign porno mags that feature beaver shots and penetration (Hustler, Penthouse, etc.), there are people whose job it is to use a razor blade to scratch out the naughty parts before the magazines are displayed in stores.
The latest in Japanese porn crazes include golden showers and rape. The golden shower thing is so widespread that it will pop up in non-fetish videos as well. The rape scenes are all staged, but no less disturbing.
That is all I know. More info than you wanted, maybe, but it’s all pretty interesting, huh?
Here in Hungary, it’s on your normal cable (which pretty much everyone has, since the aerial TV is pretty lame) after 11. And it’s your run-of-the-mill X-rated porn (visible penetration, all the trimmings.) It’s not terribly fetish-based, and my general feeling for the culture here is that it’s certainly not terribly into fetishes. (Not that they don’t exist, of course.) We have the Austrians and Germans next door for that. 
“Do you enjoy taking a razor blade to pictures of a woman’s vagina? If so, you can make BIG MONEY!!!”
That sounds like it would be a fun crew to hang out with. :eek:
–Cliffy
Well, that’s at least mildly reassuring. Japanese porn is a horrible waste; the “actresses” are so much more attractive than our boob-jobbed and made-up domestic porn stars, but for some crazy reason I just can’t “grok” simulated rape.
German porn I’ve run across is pretty awful too, because I hate the way it sounds.
Actually, like they say, “90 percent of everything is crap,” and porn is no exception. Maybe more like 95%. The worst thing about the Internet is the easy availability of awful, awful porn, which I would never have seen otherwise. Sometimes it’s good for a laugh, though.
The speckle out thing is hilariously bad and I believe they just have issues with the wang. Whats really off the wall is the sheer stock of porn availible. While in Osaka, I happen to drop by the local video shop about the size of 4 Blockbusters stacked on one another…one floor with regular movies…3 floors for porn (and I am talking stocked to the gills)
And he aint kiddin about the fetish movement over there…everything is availible. Balloon fetish, foot worship, and the ever present and IMHO way off the chart …Bukkake
Now there is one you just have to see to believe
Myself, I always liked the Swedes. They just know how to fuse a perfectly logical explanation for a couple to have sex in the middle of a town square, god bless em.
I recently stumbled upon a site that sells the AV idol VCD/DVD’s (uh, yeah, I stumbled upon it, yeah, that’s the ticket) and must agree. These are some of the most beautiful women I have seen. Which makes it all the more difficult to imagine them doing hardcore porn. I guess it’s the stereotype of the prim and proper Japanese that makes it difficult for me to imagine ANY Japanese woman (or man, for that matter) doing porn.
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At my local DVD rental place I found that some smartass had put “Cum Cocktail” in the children’s section (in proper alphabetical order, next to Cinderella I think). I mean that’s just rude.
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Yeah, well, a quick look around the internet and you’ll see how misguided that idea is. It’s too bad that most of the porn is so awful. Japanese porn that doesn’t look like at least date-rape is a good find; Japanese porn with some semblance of female enthusiasm is like a gift from above.
I would like porn more if more than 1% of it was semi-tasteful and sexy instead of crass and offensive. I guess that’s an impossibility given that the sex trade is pretty much inherently degrading and repulsive. And yet I keep looking. Curse you, Internet.