Japan's Elder Porn
Gun enthusiasts now have an online dating site.
Maniac Training of Lolitas.
Forbidden Elderly Care.
Congratulations, Japan, you've just won the prize for the country with the greatest pornography titles! And believe it or not, the films mentioned are two hits in an unexpected market that's just burst onto the country: elderly porn. Yup, you heard us right...senior citizen pornography.
But some themes of the vids that Time magazine reports the Japanese AARP is gettin' it on to might surprise you: incest and inter-familial sex. For example, some flicks by the company Glory Quest depict sexual relationships between an older father-in-law and his son's wife. The older generations don't relate to "school dramas," a p.r. flack tells the mag.
I'm sure not all of the elderly porn depicts inter-familial sex, so I'm not judging all the elderly porn with a wide brush. But wives-and-fathers-in-law seems creepily exploitative to me -- and incest porn is really f*****g disgusting. If I were a Japenese woman and found my dad/father-in-law/husband in possession of these kinds of vids, I don't think I would want to be around him anymore.
But on the one hand, I know that society realistically can't control human desire. It mostly shouldn't even attempt to (go Netflix the move "The Notorious Bettie Page," about the S&M pin-up star, if you haven't already seen the flick). I know having a fantasy doesn't always translate into an action, but if we sanction fantasies that allow for innocent people to be exploited, aren't we complicit in the exploitation? Should this kind of porn be outlawed or should the companies be taxed for it, so they do not have the economic incentive to make it?
I really don't know the answer...but reading that Time article gave me the willies.
Discussion
How in blazes can one begin an article with Japanese Senior Citizen porn and segue over to American soft core BDSM of the likes of BettiePage and the Notorious Bettie Page?? NO connection!
Read about Betties background and you'll see how courageously and in an age where everyone doesnt run to a shrink - managed the sexual abuse - as it is referred to today -- She seems to have come out, lived a full life by enjoying herself, her beautiful form, eyes and smile and lived a healthy 85 years!
The Japanese LOVE sex as much as they love bathing -- The bullshit that some Americans dump upon a country with traditions of work ethic, education and skill, physical strength and endurance plus mental acuity beautiful art, architecture, design esthetic and bathing and sex which has been around ten times as long as USA has been a nation, identifies how liberal Americans have too much time on their hands and are so fouled up within themselves that they constantly seek out others "to change" Take your social legalism and stuff it!
That is really a tough call. Porn always presents these ambiguities, because like you said, desire or fantasy doesn't necessarily translate to action. But there is definitely a creep factor if say, the son's wife does end up finding her father-in-law's DVDs.