Japan’s male AV actors: A rare and special breed

[prophetomega]

Few words are as evocative and provoking as “porn”. Just saying it seems dirty somehow, and yet there aren’t many people who could truthfully say that they didn’t enjoy it at least a little. Especially when it comes to the gentlemen, for whom being a porn star seems like one of the most coveted occupations ever.

But is it really that great? A book released in Japan this year explores the Japanese AV (adult video) industry from the male perspective and reveals some surprising information.

Titled The “Male AV Actor” Occupation: the Reality of the Sex Cyborgs, the book puts forward some some shocking truths about professional male AV actors in Japan.

Perhaps the most surprising things is their numbers.

There are about 10,000 women acting in the Japanese AV industry now, putting out around 4,500 titles a month. And how many men do you think there are? You’d probably expect quite a few. After all, sex is all men think about, right? Getting paid big bucks to sleep with countless women? The directors must be beating off potential applicants with a stick!

Well, not quite. For all the daydreams and endless fantasies, most men simply can’t hack it in the Japanese AV world. For the majority, it’s simply a lack the necessary, ahem, “skills.” After all, can you perform multiple times a day? (Remember, those 4,500 titles a month!) Can you follow directions and assume the positions? Can you “work” in front of a group? Even if they’re taking photos, adjusting lights, making calls to impatient distributors, and criticizing your technique? And, perhaps most importantly, can you get in the mood regardless of who your partner or partners may be? We mean, it’s not always Tsubomi…

Even if you say yes, there’s another issue: are you willing to be a social pariah? Have your “oh!” face seen by millions of fapping men? Once you’ve made a film, it’s a permanent part of your record—even if you don’t put it on a resume, it won’t be hard for someone armed with a picture of your face and Google Image Search to uncover your dirty deeds.

Despite all that, there still has to be a few hundred professional male Japanese AV actors, right? Try 70.

Bear in mind, of course, that this does not count “amateur” actors, so it’s likely that the exact number of men who have acted in a pornographic film in any given month is much more than 70. However, that doesn’t change the fact that there are only around 70 professional male AV actors.

▼Taka Kato: Legendary Japanese AV actor

As unbelievable as it may be, those 70 actors “take care” of the 10,000 women in the Japanese AV industry. Or, to put it another way, if there are 4,500 films produced a month, that means that about 150 are made a day—so one actor is making around two pornographic films a day, at least according to The “Male AV Actor” Occupation.

That’s got to be exhausting! But on the other hand, if you assume a pay out of about 50,000 yen (US$506) per film, these studs, in every sense of the word, are making 100,000 yen ($1,012) a day. They’re at the same level, physically and financially, as some professional athletes!

But our AV stars face an altogether different predicament: the emotional impact of performing so many insanely intimate acts with veritable strangers.

When asked if they felt like they understood women, the 19 men interviewed for the book all expressed a similar sentiment of either not trusting or not understanding women in the slightest. One actor even said, “It’s because I don’t understand women that I can do this job. I think the more I do it, the less I understand them.”

Japanese commenters responded to the news:

So you have to have complete control over you ability to rise and ejactulate? Well, I’m out.

Seems like it’s really harsh for the male actors.

Looks like it’s much harder on the male actors than the female actors. Those men are on the bottom of the social ladder, and while the women get to shower, the guys just have one towel to wipe with.

No matter how pretty the ladies are, it’s no good when the guy looks like crap.

I bet there aren’t not even 70 guys.

Hmmm…maybe I’ll give it a shot!

This isn’t a job that anyone can do. Even if you say you’re jealous of them, once you try it, you’ll get fed up with it pretty quickly.

Maybe there’s just too many women?

So, what do you think, dear reader? Still wish you could be a porn star??

Source : rocketnews24.com

 

[wotakaskus]

There are about 10,000 women acting in the Japanese AV industry now, putting out around 4,500 titles a month. And how many men do you think there are? You’d probably expect quite a few. After all, sex is all men think about, right? Getting paid big bucks to sleep with countless women? The directors must be beating off potential applicants with a stick!

Well, not quite. For all the daydreams and endless fantasies, most men simply can’t hack it in the Japanese AV world. For the majority, it’s simply a lack the necessary, ahem, “skills.” After all, can you perform multiple times a day? (Remember, those 4,500 titles a month!) Can you follow directions and assume the positions? Can you “work” in front of a group? Even if they’re taking photos, adjusting lights, making calls to impatient distributors, and criticizing your technique? And, perhaps most importantly, can you get in the mood regardless of who your partner or partners may be? We mean, it’s not always Tsubomi…

Bear in mind, of course, that this does not count “amateur” actors, so it’s likely that the exact number of men who have acted in a pornographic film in any given month is much more than 70. However, that doesn’t change the fact that there are only around 70 professional male AV actors.

▼Taka Kato: Legendary Japanese AV actor

As unbelievable as it may be, those 70 actors “take care” of the 10,000 women in the Japanese AV industry. Or, to put it another way, if there are 4,500 films produced a month, that means that about 150 are made a day—so one actor is making around two pornographic films a day, at least according to The “Male AV Actor” Occupation.

That’s got to be exhausting! But on the other hand, if you assume a pay out of about 50,000 yen (US$506) per film, these studs, in every sense of the word, are making 100,000 yen ($1,012) a day. They’re at the same level, physically and financially, as some professional athletes!

So, what do you think, dear reader? Still wish you could be a porn star??

yeah just the same information with a western male pornstar that i got.( sorry a little "out of topic " but i just wanna compare a japanese male pornstar with western male pornstar )

he say ( he didn't tell his real name ) about 7 reason to do not become a male pornstar

this is what he said

Reason #1: You Have To Have Sex: I know it sounds kind of crazy – that’s what you’re there for – but it’s true. Think about it: Maybe you’re horny all the time (as I generally am) but that doesn’t mean you want to actually “do it” every second of the day. We guys want to fuck when we want to fuck, right? Not when it’s “time to fuck”. Say it’s two o’clock in the afternoon. There are eight people in the room – you, the director, the girl you’re “working with”, the cameraman, the lighting guy, the makeup artist and some dude you don’t even know why he’s there – and suddenly it’s time to fuck. GO! Um, okay…

Reason #2: You Can’t Get It Up: Every man’s nightmare is just an ordinary problem on a porn set. Sure, there’s Viagra and Cialis galore and you can pop ‘em by the dozen. But there are side effects to taking that medication so frequently, and the biggest one (no pun intended) is tolerance. In other words, your body actually builds up a resistance to the medication if you take it too much. So, after awhile, you can swallow handfuls of those little blue pills and they have zero effect (other than headaches and the possible loss of vision). What to do? Inject your dick (yes, with a needle) with a more intense liquid medication that works instantly – and leaves the underside of your cock filled with needle holes. God knows what else it’s doing to your body but hey, we have to get the shot, right? And what if you have an aversion to needles (or injecting some weird goop directly into your prick)? Well, there’s always someone (usually a dude) there to help. Ouch and Yuk!

Reason #3: Male Porn Stars Make Much Less Than Female Porn Stars: The usual rate of pay for a girl in the porn business can run anywhere from $800 a scene to $2,000 per scene, depending on the number of male performers she’s “accommodating”, and what the sex act actually is (like Double Penetration, threesomes, anal, creampie, etc). How much do we guys make? On average: $200!! True, sometimes we can earn as much as $500 for a scene (and more, of course, if you’re a “name” star, like Ron Jeremy or Vince Voyeur). The thinking goes: Hey, you’re getting to fuck a gorgeous porn star so be happy you’re getting paid at all. But male porn actors have bills like car payments and rent, too, so we often have “day jobs” (or, “night gigs”, like waiters and parking lot attendants). After the cumshot you feel great but when you leave the shoot and realize you can’t pay your mortgage and have to do another shoot, right away maybe that day just to keep the creditors off your back, it’s not as much fun.

Reason #4: You have To Have ‘Good Aim’: When it’s time for “the Money Shot” – the cumshot – the director almost always wants you to hit the female in the face with your jism. There’s nothing worse than shooting a hot scene and then, at the very end, with the girl on her knees, mouth wide open, waiting for your sperm, to shoot a giant load across the room barely getting a drop on her face! The director yells ‘CUT!” and sometimes they want you to do it again - and if you can’t they bring in another cock for the splooge. Talk about ego crushing.

Reason #5: You’re Not Attracted To Your On-Screen Partner: Maybe you’re not into breast implants (all that bouncing around can really hurt, especially if one of those silicone pumpkins accidentally whacks you in the head). Maybe you only like redheads, or blondes, and the girl you’re fucking is a brunette and reminds you of your sister. Maybe she’s a little too fat, or skinny, or tall, or – you get the idea. It doesn’t matter if you HATE her or the way she looks, or smells, or tastes – you have to fuck her otherwise you’ll be replaced. Okay, so perhaps you take a pass on this one – you end up getting a reputation that you’re “difficult to work with” or “too picky” and slowly the casting calls stop coming. It’s a real issue, and you have to be mentally strong (and real good at fantasizing and visualizing someone else) to overcome this common problem.

Reason #6: You’re Expected To Have Zero Hang-ups: Maybe the scene is a threesome – with another guy and one girl! Or it’s a double penetration scene where it’s guaranteed your dick will at least touch another dude. Or perhaps you just find it uncomfortable to have a cameraman lean on your shoulders while he’s trying to get that close up of her sucking your balls. Don’t like anal? Too bad. Don’t like eating pussy? Tough. Hate it when you’re expected to fling her around like Superman (against the wall, on the sink, over a couch, on a ladder…)? They don’t want to hear it. Just do it or get lost, we’ll find someone else!

Reason #7: She Hurts Your Dick: Remember, your female porn partner is also trying to give a heated, passionate performance (her career and earning potential is on the line, too). So she bites your cock, jerks it really hard and fast, sucks those balls a little too intensely, moves her hips like she’s grinding raw meat trying to turn it into a hamburger. The list goes on and on. It’s nearly impossible to tell your partner to stop doing something that hurts, or just feels uncomfortable because it probably hurts her, too. Or she might not “get it” or just not give a fuck.. And you won’t get any sympathy from the director, or anyone on the set (at least it’s your dick that’s getting crushed so shut up). Then there’s the angles. Oh the angles!! Extreme sideways, extreme bending this way and that, all so the camera can get what people are paying for: the cock going in the pussy. What feels good and “natural” in normal life often doesn’t cut it on film so you almost have to be a gymnast to get the shot, and lots of times it’s painful. Sometimes it even feels like your dick is going to break off! But you gotta keep going, and going, no matter what. No wonder so many ‘stunt cocks’ look bent and disjointed!

source : http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/useless-blabber/267794-7-reasons-why-sucks-male-pornstar.html

ok,back to topic,i just compare it ( a japanese male pornstar with a western male porsntar )

reason 1 -> for this statement a western pornstar and japanese male pornstar was the same

reason 2 -> in western when your dick cannot "standup" your penis will be injected so your dick can stand up well.but in some of jav movie i see a "not" stand up dick so my opinion was jav didn't think about the it.just make a movie ( so in this case if i compare with western,jav movie is more loosely about this )

see reason 3 - > western just get paid $200 and japanese male pornstar get paid $ 1,012 a day ( so i think the japanese male porsntar salary was bigger )

reason 4 -> i cannot make a comment or a statement about this one because the japanese pornstar male actor didn't telling a story about this.

reason 5 -> and this why get a carrier in JAV was better.in western you'll see a lot of tities with a silicon but in japan you'll not see a tities with a silicon ( maybe just an implan not a silicon such as tsubasa amami and azumi mizushima )

reason 6 -> again for this statement a western pornstar and japanese male pornstar was the same

reason 7 -> so this is why i was like to watch a JAV than a western.the female JAV artist will be directed by the director to do a action that you are a "victim" we can see it during the fuck scene.but in western the female pornstar act like mmmm,let say it just act like a lion or tiger that ready to pounce you

so a male japanese pornstar get paid bigger than a western male pornstar.and a male japanese pornstar ( in some movie )doing more a easy work than a western male pornstar. i watched in hotaru akane movie,the male pornstar just hold the squirter in the hotaru akane vagina,so the male pornstar *in this movie* doing a simple and easier job ( maybe the male pornstar paid lower than a sex scene )

but if i must to choose what i gonna choose a western porn or jav ( if i must to choose one of this two option ) i'll choose the JAV ( the reason why ? because japan male pornstar paid bigger than a western ) but i don't want to be a pornstar at all.i just say if i must to choose ( this mean i didn't have another option )

and i didn't want to say JAV is better than western or the opposite.

this is just my opinion,"different people,different culture,different country,different opinion"

i like JAV because JAV movie have a lot fetish variation ( bukkake,gokkun,news reporter fuck,news reporter fuck bukkake,etc )

ok,what i got from this thread was ,being or involved in porn industry was bad its not as happy as you seen in the movie,it's just a movie.it was had a lot of fake ( just like when we see a male pornstar he seem very happy,but the fact was he wasn't )

and about the last question
i didn't want to be a male pornstar ( even before i read this thread ) because i wanna have a happy life and happy sex with my wife.involved in this industry ,i think it was terrible.maybe someday you'll get HIV/AIDS because you involved with this industry or maybe sipilis too.

if i must choose i'll be happy if i gonna be the director

because i can scream on and on to the male porsntar "hheeeeeeyyyyyyy,fuck her harder " ( it just like .i'm having a mind control that can control another person to do something hahahaha )


CMIIW

 

[Aqua2213]

Thank you Danny Downer... These Pornstar dudes are my personal heroes. They are thee extentions of my dick.
They have lulled me to sleep many a night and have provided quick fix ego boosters for me when needed.​

Actually it was an interesting post. Although not a peep about STDS and HIV fears lingering on a pornstars mind (or his cock).​

Thanks to wotakaskus for the western pornstar input. Some of the women I've seen in porn are pretty unappitizing and I wonder how the guys do it.​

Now I'm going to slip back into my wiggily warm fantasy bubble.​

 

[luvasianass]

I live in California but I could NEVER be a porn actor here. I did do a phone interview about 20 years ago for it, but I decided that if my ex ever found out I'd never get to see my daughter. Aside from that 99.9% of Western women just do nothing for me or are outright repulsive.

I could easily see myself in JAV porn though. True there are some women I see in movies that just do nothing for me, but that is greatly offset by the number of simply stunning women in the industry. So much variety and also so much beauty. For me I don't think it would be a problem to "perform" on demand, especially with the though of the possibilities and fulfilled fantasies - like Uta Kohaku's cute ass and being the first one of fuck it lease:

 

[roulch]

Just wanna add (or answer) what i think wotakaskus don't know.

for reason #4, JAV once again are more loose about it. I've seen lots of movies where the male actor shot a little amount of cum, and it's ok. I mean, if the director wants a LOAD of it, we'll see a LOAD amount of it and not just a tiny drop, right?

and long time ago, i watched, i forgot the title, but i think there's kokomin in it, that's why i watched it. The theme is school, at PE time, and this teacher got caught up peeping, he was dragged, get to do all the girls, anyway the bottom line is, he failed!!!
right when he was supposed to do the cumshot, in that instant, his penis lose its function, sudden wrinkling, and no cumshot at all. (it was the tall, white, slightly boxed face and wavy haired guy)

i think i've seen a couple movies too, that the male actor failed. but, the one that i mentioned above... i don't know i still remember it clearly

 

[lullaby4love]

what a great story, I will consider to be a porn star but only at a tortured scene where a girl get torture without any fuck by a man (involved devices, rope, dildo etc with a mask on) andalaugh:

 

[prophetomega]

I remember an article where the actor use his apartment as a venue for an AV. He gets paid for the place and for performing, plus his face was blurred out too. So i guess you can have it as an option too.

 

[Ashyne]

What about those bukkake scenes with dozens of men?

 

[jihadist]

imagine all the american men flocking to japn to be porno stars! what are you doing behind your computer screens? get your ass to japan!

 

[sabero]

that's a hard job, so many eyes with you:joker::gayprance::gayprance:

 

[Belion]

thats a very tough job for a western porn star the list goes on and on cone to think of it DAMN! thats really TOUGH

 

[holyabdul]

Yeah it sounds great to fuck a hot woman and get paid for it, but if you gotta do it ALL the time, including with those actresses you find fugly, it takes the fun out of sex.

 

[Ceewan]

Mixed blessings. It is one thing to want to fuck, another to enjoy fucking and still another to have to fuck.

 

[WillEater]

Here in Hollywierd, it's the rare man that is able to step up to the job as a "Professional Stud".
As a card carrying stunt double, I have an up close and intimate look at the AV business.
Dream all you want, but the first time "Little Man" fails to squirt, you're out of work..
Yesterday, the Sex Awards was broadcast and only 6 men were regulars..

They had 100 women..

And don't even ask about the "Fluffers"..

 

[HeavyNosebleed]

Well there are already some good points listed in this thread why a job as AV-Actor is not paradise like you would dream of.
For me the most feared thing would be to get used to having sex with beautiful women too much. If it turns into "just another day job" after a while and you don't have a lot of fun anymore, then this is bad. And I think that might happen very quickly.
Maybe you even won't be able to appreciate and enjoy a "normal woman" in your (sex-)life outside the AV-Industry after such a job. Sex just wouldn't be something special anymore.

 

[WillEater]

Most guys close the eyes and think of another gal..