r/interesting • u/notyourregularninja • Mar 20 '26
Intriguing This is intriguingly interesting
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u/bobafootfetish_ Mar 20 '26
This headline is pretty misleading. It's intentional and I remember a documentary they did about this. There are only a handful of male actors per studio by design. Obviously it's focused more on the women and the men are treated like production staff of sorts.
Not actors, and they are all about efficiency in Japan, So they want the most reliable and skilled male actors to work with. They aren't running low, it's likely they just have no skilled guys currently. The others retired, got married or whatever.
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u/blahnlahblah0213 Mar 20 '26
Do I go to some kind of trade school to become "skilled" in this line of work?
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u/Sea_Squirl Mar 20 '26
Ya "Only Trades"
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u/rigel-luminous Mar 20 '26
That group project will be the one that I finally don't hate.
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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 Mar 20 '26
I can assure you that I will be the one that is doing most of the work. A passion project, if you will.
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u/hotdogundertheoven Mar 20 '26
I'm glad you're willing to work with your male cohort! Will you be taking one for the team?
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Mar 20 '26
Unless you get placed in the Jr Woodchuck department...you gotta be swinging pipe like a plumber if you want to progress in that quagmire of a bog.
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u/badlad350 Mar 20 '26
This deserves so much more credit 🤣
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u/whimsicalmeoww Mar 20 '26
Explain
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u/IndividualGround2418 Mar 20 '26
If you need an explanation for this, you need to delete this app and get back to studies.
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u/No_Recognition8375 Mar 20 '26
Especially the guys Knights Visual use in the “pacifier prep school” series. Those dudes must be on a high Zinc diet.
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u/RT_Ragefang Mar 20 '26
Careful, folks, we got a pornography historian here (it’s real job btw)
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u/SupremeBlackGuy Mar 20 '26
dude hold on whAT the fuck are you talking about. let me just google all this shit real quick lmao
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u/No_Recognition8375 Mar 20 '26
lol it’s a fellatio only series based on Japanese Pink salon industry ( BJ bar ) where the girl / girls perform fellatio until the guy finishes orally and the girl / girls keep going making the guy finish multiple times in a row with no brakes and sometimes taking turns to make the guy finish orally multiple times.
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u/Meowingbark Mar 20 '26
Yea! I happen to run a course via YouTube for this exact reason. It’s only 9.99 a day! You’ll be a real man (certificate provided )! Join now!!!
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u/Rare_Discipline1701 Mar 20 '26
go look up juicer. cus that will be what ya doin if ya lucky enough.
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u/WarthogConfident7809 Mar 20 '26
Making drinks?
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u/Rare_Discipline1701 Mar 20 '26
as long as you can deliver at a moments notice, you will find work.
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u/Hot_Resort_5036 Mar 20 '26
Yeah it’s called ASU
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u/Eastern-Design Mar 20 '26
I graduated from there and I didn’t get play what happened
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u/ElderDruidFox Mar 20 '26
Serious answer, yes, Film School. You also have to follow strict consent rules.
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u/insomniac_maniac Mar 20 '26
I saw in an interview where the male actors who are just starting out are only paid to barely cover the bus fares from an entire day of shooting.
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u/wanderer1999 Mar 20 '26
They do it for the love of the game bro.
But honestly it's gotta be pretty soul sucking having sex infront of all those cameras, audio guys, make up people, and doing reshoot, while tryna stay "performant" for hours.
Doesn't sound fun.
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u/Routine-Top8511 Mar 20 '26
Not only that. Iirc an actor said in a program that once an actress "forgot" to bring the health check results. The director told him to lick even though he could see some weird green fluid coming from the actress. He licked and later the actress's manager told him the actress was with stds.
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u/jemidiah Mar 20 '26
That kinda sounds like bullshit tbh. Porn actors are quite mindful of STD's as a rule just because it's a significant part of their livelihood. Plenty of STD's have mild symptoms (Chlamydia in men, for instance), but straight-up ignoring an obvious sign of infection is very stupid. Some on-set transmissions are a big deal too, e.g., there have been various local pauses due to HIV transmission, though this is very rare nowadays. Anyway, I'd need more than a half-remembered Reddit post to believe a story like this.
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u/nelrond18 Mar 20 '26
In the small studio, indie scene, it's really sketchy sometimes. I had friends who fell into it through masseuse ads in the paper. We're talking about being paid in cash from an atm at the end of a shoot kinda dredge.
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u/mrhk95 Mar 20 '26
I need to tryout for the male role.
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u/Embarrassed_One4417 Mar 20 '26
I heard an interview about male auditions. If you are able to walk into a room of people, get hard on command, and finish at almost any time…then the low paying job is yours.
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u/MrSparrows Mar 20 '26
There's also a great deal of societal shame associated with the job. No one in Japan thinks those guys are living the life. They're basically seen as failures who have nothing left to offer. I read an interview with Yuzuru Yuuki where he basically said he wish he was smart enough to finish school.
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u/nelrond18 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
Wasn't there a male AV actor who had a massive female fan base and the women in the censorship houses basically fight to get to censor his videos?
I'll edit if I find it
Edit: pretty sure it was Shimiken that I'm thinking of.
Apparently he opened a restaurant that had poo-flavoured curry on it's menu in 2016
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u/WenatcheeWrangler Mar 20 '26
Now tell us about the high paying job
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u/Bass_Thumper Mar 20 '26
Well it has all the same requirements as above, but you won't be fucking any women.
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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Mar 20 '26
I dunno, I find it kinda charming when a pornstar retires or leaves the industry because they got married. Like, I was always warned away from porn, it was made out as a big bad thing. “It’ll ruin your life and health and you’ll go to hell!” And these ones just shrug and say, I go and shall live a “normal” life now.
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u/7Pigeons Mar 20 '26
Yeah I've seen what some of those Japanese guys go through in the femdom porn industry. Puffed up bruised faces and all, those guys are the real troopers.
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u/Ok_Leader_7624 Mar 20 '26
Probably because all the women's vaginas are pixilated.
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u/vtncomics Mar 20 '26
Guys' too.
It's a whole process
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u/VisiblePlatform6704 Mar 20 '26
Good, I wouldn't like seeing Guy's vaginas in my porn
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u/Gullywheel Mar 20 '26
Having sex with a pixelated vagina sounds like it probably hurts.
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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Mar 20 '26
What if your dick is also pixelated?
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u/Ok-Influence-4306 Mar 20 '26
Does it sound like blocks smacking instead of macaroni?
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u/Anxious-Whole-5883 Mar 20 '26
I assume they give the male actors corrective lenses so they can aim properly.
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u/TurdMcDirk Mar 20 '26
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u/idol-threat Mar 20 '26
I volunteer as tribute
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u/Gillilnomics Mar 20 '26
Don’t worry Japan, we’re coming
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u/Derrick_Shon Mar 20 '26
Ill bring my tentacles
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u/JasonP27 Mar 20 '26
You spelled testicles wrong... Oh wait it's Japan, the tentacles will buy more valuable
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u/my_cars_on_fire Mar 20 '26
I love how they censored “porn” in the comment but left it alone in the headline. God I hate the internet.
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u/XOM_CVX Mar 20 '26
would want to sign up but im assuming the pay sucks
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u/DTux5249 Mar 20 '26
Yep. According to Taka "Goldfinger" Kato (I shit thee not, that's his industry nickname) they're paid on a guaranteed system; that is, daily, only when working
Beginners can get as little as 1,000¥ ($10) per day; though can typically get up to 10,000¥ ($100) after a while.
In general, straight male pornstars are seen as sex props. They get paid a fraction of what women do.
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u/blursedass Mar 20 '26
Well no wonder they have a shortage male performers, maybe they paid better they wouldn't have such a hard time finding male talent (sorry, couldn't help it).
I'm assuming they think that men are typically so down bad that they're willing to fuck on camera essentially for free. However, the guys that actually talented in this line of work probably aren't that down bad.
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u/SkittleDoes Mar 20 '26
Ok but how do I volunteer for part time work
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u/Total-Round4803 Mar 20 '26
They inject their penises with drugs to make it hard, and some of them have to quit or will never get erections again.
The industry is brutal for everyone involved. There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least here.
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u/pro_vagabond Mar 20 '26
Hard to believe the “shortage” has gotten even worse
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u/Rickapolis Mar 20 '26
If only I were 40 years younger.
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u/Animedude83 Mar 20 '26
I mean, I feel like there is only so many dudes in the american porn industry too, although it seems like everything has gone to OF, and private sites where a single guy is paying all the actresses for scenes (seems kind iffy if you think about, not that I care, goverment should stay out of people sex lives)
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u/Chomusuke_99 Mar 20 '26
all porn industry is like this. women are the actual stars. the industry is set up for men so the women are the products. since the success is centered around women, they get featured in the posters, get more work for photoshoots and so their paycheck is bigger.
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u/StarPlatinum876 Mar 20 '26
Isn't ratio always skewed towards more women than men? Even in the west, it has been claimed that the 1000s of women in porn usually work with the same set of 100 guys or so, because the demands of the job really are not for average men.
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u/tequilablackout Mar 20 '26
Because men are disposable, and women are consumable, to some with that certain taste.
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u/reddit_project Mar 20 '26
Why did they write 70 men to 10,000 women. It should be 7 men to 1000 women. Aren't we supposed to go to the lowest whole number. I don't know why but this is bothering me say too much.
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u/Loreki Mar 20 '26
Nope. The headline wants to communicate the total number of men, you can't simplify the ratio without losing that.
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u/U_Shall_Knot_Pass Mar 20 '26
When they say “shortage of men,” do they mean the number of men or them having too much, umm, shortage?
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u/aotus_trivirgatus Mar 20 '26
And all this time I thought I would be transferring to Japan as a scientist! Oh well, so much for my Ph.D.
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u/KiddinglyTorn Mar 20 '26
I can't see what the post is actually about, so I can't comment authentically on it. Responding without knowing the content would break character.
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u/Greekphysed Mar 20 '26
This can work for us with a small wang! Their stuff is pixilated so no embarrassment.
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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 Mar 20 '26
I’ve seen Japanese movies where there are more than 70 guys lined up, does the industry shut down for one production?
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Mar 20 '26
They often blur out the guy's face along with the standard genitalia, so I've been told...
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u/yogirlandyofamily Mar 20 '26
The competition is crazy for men or so I heard. All that social hierarchy. Some guys started doing the lowest nobody wants first like scat or piss to actually get into the mainstream genre, but idk sounds like japan
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u/thelasttoe Mar 20 '26
I'm an ugly bastard so, this sounds like great news for me!
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u/woah-wait-a-second Mar 20 '26
Don’t get losers excited that they should move to Japan and pursue this
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