And kudos to you for preferring porn characters who are consensually on the straight and narrow
... THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN! ...
I thought URE-019 was one of the best JAVs I've seen. ...
... did you not perhaps get carried away a little when you branded these lost souls as "sociopaths"?) ...
... Further: the nebbish character of Woody Allen in his first movies was one all men could appreciate, enjoying as we can the woman-tribulations of one less polished than we.)
I do not believe JAV ... steered clear of the elements you are not enamored of. ...Getting the women via ignoble means in JAV serves as an attraction to most, as it fulfills the fantasy of bedding any woman we desire. (And that's the purpose porn mainly serves: fantasy.).
I'm glad my outrage of a post is triggering some discussion. I just want to throw out a quick reply. And maybe dive into some specific points later... Activate OT mode:
First a critical clarification, I do not hate Losers (in sexual ways, I did qualify as one, I am big enough to admit that), I do not want JAV to
steer clear of any particular elements or genre or kinks. What I am ranting against is the normalization, the mainstreamization, even the glorification of Losers.
I love Woody Allen films and identify with him (his characters) in some small ways, but the post-2010 (perhaps even more recent, post-2015?) trend is not the same as Woody Allen's or Revenge of the Nerds or anything like that. The new trend is the celebration of Loserhood, Loser-Pride, come-out-of-closet Losers. My sexual hero isn't Burt Reynolds (he's a bit before my time) but James Bond. A man who doesn't even need to seduce women, sex and women isn't everything to him, he loves drinks and food and fast cars and saving the world, and if there's a 2-hour wait till the next flight to Prague, a little gymnastic in bed. Notice he's never very selective about women, but he's selective about cars and wine.
I brought up Urotsukidoji because it's a very interesting case. On the surface, it's everything I am ranting against. The protagonist Tatsuo is a Loser (in the era before Herbivore became a hashtag in Japan), he was depressed by his lack of qualities, he was tempted by a demon and because his self-esteem is so deep in the negative, he accepted the demon's proposal: chop off his own penis and accepting a demonic one as replacement (which gives him great power), and he went on to r*** and murder many women, (including the one he obsessed so much that he accepted the demon's temptation, actually right there we knew there's no more "Tatsuo") and finally destroy the world. It's a film made for Losers, it's also deeply misogynist. But it doesn't validate the Loser . Losers (including the me back then) watched this film, enjoyed the nudity and sex, even very guiltily enjoyed the violent r***s (before the moments the women exploded into blood and gore from the demonic penetration), but we walked out of that film feeling disturbed and uncomfortable with our Loserhood.
So... ok what I'm hoping for, isn't the banning of incest, r*** (especially the teacher and detective r*** genres), shota, even POV from JAV... What I'm hoping for... is a combination that they become more fringe and that the vids limits to only satisfying the biological need (masturbation) and never gives psychological comfort (validation) to Losers.
Perhaps even once in a while, like Urotsukidoji, a particularly brilliant writer/director could make something at the same time feed the depravity and also needle and disturb the souls.
A even better example that came back to my mind is the hentai artist U-Jin 游人, all you need to know is that one of his recurring "hero" is a shota whose penis is so small and has so little stamina (cum so fast) that he can r*** women in broad daylight without the victim noticing. His stories needle Losers so well that he must have been one himself. But I love his bend of Loser-celebration in the same way that Keroro Sergeant Frog both celebrate Otaku but belittle them.
