All comments of User ZENRA

In response to Anon 's comment

These are pretty solid takes though I may not agree with them all. You're welcome to share your own if you can keep it civil.

In response to drk 's comment

I wasn't aware she bowed out again! Talk about how much she has fallen from her peak.

In response to asianl 's comment

Don't under-estimate just how incredibly self-regulated mainstream JAV is (basically anything with an IPPA watermark). The system has worked very well until this Law was passed in lighting time with extremely minimal insights from the industry.

Per alternative payments: not needed in Japan. If card payments ever became an issue, bank transfer and other non-card methods exist and can be easily integrated.

Per public: the real golden age of public nudity JAV was the early to mid 2000's. Studio self-regulation has made real deal public shooting a thing of the past.

Per Fetish-Japan: not shooting nudity probably is not related to any laws, but $$$ and what their fans want.

When in doubt, it's not the law or regulations that change things, but money.

In response to asianl 's comment

Excellent reply!

Allow me to comment on your statements.

1: Mainstream, Doujin, UC, and all forms of ‘night work’ almost always shy away from anyone under 20. No need to cement the age of ‘21’ for doing this type of work as that would probably lead to many legal headaches for all parties.

2. Point of the law in its initial form I believe. Was modified to cover all performers which is where issues have cropped up. And of course, YMMV how this is being followed outside of mainstream JAV (and this doesn’t mean UC, for example, is full of bad guys out to deceive naive women. From what I have seen it’s more of “actor/directors who don’t bother and women who know darn well what they’re getting into and don’t want to sit around waiting).

3. In mainstream at least, this has been standard since 2016.

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5. Will never happen in this generation at least due to industry self-regulation.

6. Many factors make this easier said than done. Quickly: lack of IT knowledge, lack of English skills, tons of potentially NG content (see my R18 post regarding JCB on this). On the flip side, due to mosaic and the language barrier, it remains questionable just how popular JAV actually is outside of Asian countries. JAV fans—myself included—may have a slightly warped view of this.


Per more uncensored coming out, this is already been happening. I’ve noted here and there that we’re living in an UC golden age. There has never been more UC appearing on FC2 than right now for example. I will give you that in terms of ‘professional’ quality UC, things have seemed pretty flatlined forever. There may be a small subset of producers who have that skillset and are fine with sticking with UC when they can probably find little issues with going ‘legal’ and working with established mainstream studios.

In response to drk 's comment

Yup, not easy to fly abroad to do something like this.