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Let's not forget that in general, Europeans are way less repressed sexually than us north americans.
Sex is much more widely accepted in their culture(s). Best example is that "non-porn" films in Europe are more likely to feature nonchallant nudity without any artifices. Here in North America, a film will get an R-rating if it shows a woman nude, but only a PG-13 if a guy shoots dozens of people with a machine gun with blood splattering everywhere.
The Rocco-Rosa situation is fairly simple: Rosa always knew Rocco was a pornstar and that it was his profession/job/vocation. She dabbled a bit in porn exclusively with him for a while but it wasn't her bag. Like I said: in Europe they aren't as closed-minded in terms of their sexuality as North America... in general.
the stigma of being a porn performer: it's a sign of true hypocrisy when male pornstars aren't as "harshly judged" as female pornstars. Again, this may mostly come from the North American puritanical hypocrisy subconscious mindframe that no self-respecting woman would "degrade" herself to being fucked on camera by any old tom dick harry. The male star is a "stud" and guys look up to him, but the females are called "sluts". Something absolutely wrong with that, especially if we are to allow both sexes to be open and able to explore whatever they wish, sexually.
Sidenote: Dutch ex-porn performer Zara Whites once said that one of the main reasons she wanted to do porn in the 1st place was because it was easier to do girl on girl in porn than in real life. In reality she wanted to explore her bisexuality but found it rather hard to approach women to explore sex with her. In porn, well if she was scheduled to do a lesbian scene, there it was, no fuss, no hassle!
Also rather intriguing is how we North Americans will automatically label a female performer as a pornstar even decades after she retired. It's like for example if you worked at McDonald's for a summer, then got a job at a law firm. Would people say "there goes Such-And-Such, the McDonald's employee" even if such-and-such has been working in the law firm for 5-10 years?
Like I said, a LOT of stigma surrounding porn performers...
butter_bbb, yeah i agree to a certain extend that male pornstars are harshly judged compared to female, it's a bit of unfairness but then again in centuries passed, sex and fucking around has been a mens world, look at kings and rules and people of power, no one says that because he has been sleeping with many girls or women he is broken and be called a whore but on the other hand if you know a girl or women that has been sleeping around, more often labelled as a whore. As a guy since I started fucking at the early age of 17 till now mid forties, probably 70 over girls/women incl of prostitures, escorts, girlfriends and etc. couldn't bother to count after I pass my thirty, in away my job travelling around as a businessman played a role for me to also sleep around, and do i judge myself?
You're right too about culture, but even in european or american culture there is a certain extend the girl/women is judge as i said, labelled as a whore but in Asia, it is bad. so for JAV actress if they retire and you have them as your girlfriend or a wife, you have to put their past behind, it is easy to say I want eg. maria ozawa as my girlfriend or wife but in reality if you know they are JAV actress, you'll probably think twice and maybe just have a night sex with them, thats all.
While others like Akari Asahina, just imagine after she shot the scene where there was this movie for 2 hours she goes room to room, floor to floor, jerking of guys, blowing them, having them fucked and sprayed all their gunk on her non stop, and once she finish her job, you go pick her up as your girlfriend and asked how her day went and you decide to have sex with your girlfriend that night? ahmmmmm well, knowing so much spunk was on her, what's your thougths? this question is for this forum topic. To me certainly I will need to have a very strong mindset that my girlfriend or wife just got fucked, so many cocks were in her and such.