I don't think you have watched as much western porn as you think. ... ( In the original "Dirty Debutante" series in particular, the series which redefined amateur porn in America).
Indeed, I have not followed US porn for maybe 15 years and even Euro porn I've stopped watching for maybe 8 years. I do get what you say. There are a lot more "starlets" in US porn nowadays. And Euro porn had always have a steady stream of Eastern European girls.
A main reason I've stopped watching porn is that these starlets are less and less super-hot looking and more average than the "good old days". At the same time, they also feel so trashy.
The pros and semi-pros in JAV are both hot and classy, or at least non-trashy. That's quite important.
I find women being forced into porn not to be a turn on. I find it disgusting and abonimable. ... If it turns you on, well, that is your own affair.
Ah yes... it was easy to misunderstand.
Short response is: precisely in JAV you don't get the feeling the women are forced into it. That's a fine but important line. The stereotypical impression of prostitution in most of the world is that a girl have fallen into a bad situation, often drug addiction and forced into selling her body. I'm totally with you on this, it's abominable. But what I read from some articles in the 90s (back when Japan economy was soaring) is that a large fraction of high school and university girls do it casually, as supplementary cash. To pay for fancy accessory, cosmetic and (later) tech gadgets such as cell phone. They are in control and can enter and leave the "industry" freely and it doesn't affect their life planning such as education, work and family life.
That's a curious psychological effect when I was walking the streets, especially in Shibuya where thousands of young girls each wearing accessories more expensive than my digital camera. I worked a side job for a full 3 months to afford that camera and it was mindblowing to see that much luxury accessories walking the streets. And then you look at the girls again and realize more than half of them also work a side job (just a different nature than mine) to pay for them. By one article at least one third of big city girls have made money from some kind of sexual contacts such as handjobs. That makes people watching in Tokyo quite a different experience. Notice a girl with too expensive stuffs on her? She probably sucked quite a few cocks for it.
So that's the fine line. Doing AV's not something you would be proud of or advertise to the world. But it's also not the "treat as meat" kind of humiliation. Kind of like all actors and actresses have worked waiting tables at restaurants. Everyone might have a need for cash at some time. So just do a few AV's.
And that's exactly why JAV doesn't feel trashy, despite (as you correctly stated) Western porn now also has a lot of semi-pros. The JAV industry doesn't treat the women as meat or trash and that fact shows through in the vids.
So... yeah the previous post might be easy to misunderstand. So you can un-misjudge me, despite you claim not to, but you did. That's alright.
