It’s a bit of an understatement to say that we live in interesting times, but there we are. And in times of stress we need to acknowledge our bodies and minds need to be taken care of. PornHub is making their Premium service free worldwide for the next month…in case you were feeling of residual guilt, they are donating 85% of their video sales to performers who have had to stop working due to the pandemic. There’s something reassuring to me that the porn industry leader is showing generosity in these difficult times.
If live-action porn isn’t your shtick, there’s always manga. Last week, we looked at Lesbian Fuuzoku Anthology (レズ風俗アンソロジー), an anthology about lesbian health delivery from Ichijinsha. It was successful enough that a few months later they released a sequel, Rezu Fuuzoku Anthology Repeater (レズ風俗アンソロジー リピーター).
While fewer of the stories stuck out for me, the overall sense was stories about women wanting to fix something in themselves with the help of professional. Once again the best in collection from me goes to Iwami Kyouko, whose “My Sugar Cat” hit that note between whimsy and life that makes a throwaway porn piece fun to read.
Ratings:
Overall – 7
These two Rezu Fuuzoku collections were not terrible. They lack the dazzling charm of the old Mist ladies comics, but they start from a place of slightly less delusion, presenting this as the job it is, so I’ll call it a draw. ^_^
Given the mention of PornoHub, I want to ask: is erotic content in these anthologies presented as porn with a plot or as ecchi within reasonable limits? I once heard about josei anthology with straight variations of a similar theme and in that case it was just light erotica.
You must realize that there is no such thing as a generally, much less universally agreed upon criteria for “reasonable limits” when it comes to sex, rendering this a completely unanswerable question. This is an explicit collection.
Well, I mean primarily something “mainstream” and far from “sexual comedies” like Kiss x Sis. However, I think that if it were something like that, then I would hardly have seen this review here. In that case, I suppose my question was really pointless.
The point here is that you are assuming your tastes are in some way general or average. They are your *personal* tastes and as I have repeated pointed out here ad infinitum, this kind of question is not answerable. I do not know – nor do I care – if you would find this acceptable based on your entirely personal standards. Please stop asking for this kind of thing. I will never ever ever have an answer for you and it has become tedious to keep explaining this.
Considering Pornhub has knowingly hosted videos sexual assault of it’s hard to much uplifting about a promotional stunt
*find much uplifting
I understand that pornography is often associated with exploitation. I am finding it positive that PH is paying most of their sales to the actors, since their livelihoods will suffer and no one will particularly care about them. Any industry taking care of its own people is a positive thing.
All entertainment media includes violence against women. Including anime and manga. We pay for those portions of entertainment that serve our needs, without question. But recall that Psycho-Pass and Perfect Blue and many other series include violence against women as part of the plot. Popular series in Shounen Jump regularly exploit women’s emotional states for plot points. Fragtime used sexual assault as a comedic beat.
I’m definitely not handwaving away your objection, just reminding you that I can name many popular, enduring, classic and well-loved books that include sexual assault and exploitation, as well. Let’s be aware of the log in our own eye, before bitching about the mote in our neighbor’s. I’m sure we all have our negative spaces, I freely admit to finding extreme violence and bloodsports entertaining, as long as it lack exploitation…but. Let’s be honest. Do the men who fight in MMA boughts for a few thousand dollars a year….do they really have a “choice?” They can’t negotiate, there’s little competition, the work is brutal and potentially life-threatening. How much freedom do they really have to chose their career? The folks working in hospitals right now, who regularly work unreasonable hours for unreasonable pay under horrific conditions are also being exploited. ER Trauma is likewise presented as entertainment on mainstream television networks.
I’m just asking you to think about the anime you like and look at it objectively. Does it include violence, exploitation or assault? I bet it does.
I’d be careful about the whole “content host has knowingly hosted X thing that I think they should be accountable for” stance. Maybe you’re not making the argument that they should be legally responsible, just that this kind of content should be disallowed by their TOS, but legal responsibility of providers for end-user content is unequivocally bad for free expression on the internet.
This is the crux of the whole SESTA/FOSTA problem where the law’s framing makes it sound like an easy issue for everyone to rally behind (stop “sex trafficking”) where in reality it makes sex workers’ lives immeasurably more dangerous and insecure by eliminating the places where they can safely contact and screen clients and exchange information with other providers. The ripple effects and chilling of speech just by hosts taking draconian precautions to avoid being drawn into legal action for sexual material has been devastating.
And I am not a tube site booster. I don’t talk about this much because frankly, it’s not usually relevant, but many years ago I used to work for an adult video retailer and saw firsthand the way things evolved. There is no question that the rise of the internet and especially tube sites have drastically altered the porn industry economy. In some ways for better – models have switched to doing cam work that is safer for them, more under their control, and where they can keep more of the money. But in other ways dramatically reshaped the kind of content that gets made – no more elaborate movies with a plot and sets and costumes. Even the best tube sites are still largely profiting off of the work of others who will never see a dime. The best you can do is operate under the assumption that the genie is out, we’re not going back to the old system, so you should support the current players who are doing the best they can to offer ways for content creators to get paid.
Exactly so and very well said.