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The Economics of "Elder Porn"
To
follow up on my fascination with geriatric coitus, here's a little
snippet from a
Time article on senior citizen pornography in
Japan:
A WHO report released in March found that one in four married couples in Japan had not made love in the previous year, while 38% of couples in their 50s no longer have sex at all....Yet, at the same time, the country has seen a surge in demand for pornography that has turned adult videos into a billion-dollar industry, with "elder porn" one of its fastest-growing genres.
I found it interesting (god and H&R readers forgive me for bringing it here) that the trend towards producing porn with more "mature ladies" is occurring in response to market signals:
A popular young actress can earn up to $100,000 per film, while a mature actress is paid only $2,000. The market for "elder porn" has doubled over the past decade, according to Kadowaki. "In the view of the aging society," he adds, "I think that in the future we will see a steady increase in demand."
I wrote about dementia patients conducting steamy love affairs here. Senior Editor Kerry Howley wrote about a seemingly global lack of libido here.
The more you know . . . .|6.18.08 @ 5:48PM|#
Maybe the plumet in Japanese births is because it is only old people having sex in Japan.
Ranma 1/2|6.18.08 @ 5:50PM|#
I don't meant to throw cold water on the situation but what about comics with old people having sex? Are there more of those too?
Bad Pun|6.18.08 @ 5:55PM|#
Next up in Japan: Porn with Obese people. The new nickname for Japan will be Land of the Rising Sumo.
Bingo|6.18.08 @ 5:56PM|#
Can't wait to see what the lovely vixens in 2girls1cup are up to in 30 years, hot damn!
Jerry|6.18.08 @ 6:07PM|#
How long before Andrew Cuomo will have ISPs ban access to newsgroups carrying grannieporn? Talk about double standards!
Cool Cal|6.18.08 @ 6:16PM|#
If there be cougars in them woods, then there also be the dread
"Woolly Mammoth"!
Not quite as agile, cunning, or svelte, but just as intimidating a
foe.
Salvius|6.18.08 @ 6:41PM|#
Fastest-growing = One person bought one last year. Eight people
bought one this year. Therefore, sales have grown 800%!
Just one more example of how it can be proven conclusively, just by
examining their porn, that the Japanese people are completely
insane.
Mind you, to fully back up this claim, I will need to engage in
further study... Much, much study...
Boston|6.18.08 @ 7:13PM|#
Odd.
Even if i were like 80 i still think i would look at girls within
the 18-35 age range.
Roscoe|6.18.08 @ 7:35PM|#
I'm a 58-year-old male (would a female even read this thread?),
and I prefer "mature" porn. Not creepily desiccated grannies, mind
you, but nice middle-aged women.
The younger, slimmer women are attractive, I suppose, but in a
cookie-cutter way that leaves me rather uninspired. I think the
older girls are far more interesting.
I am a regular poster but no n|6.18.08 @ 7:39PM|#
Oh Roscoe, you gentleman you!
Personally I think that the older we men get the more we appreciate
the beauty of younger women. Not that we would like to converse
with them, but fantasies of harems of college girls .....
alan|6.18.08 @ 8:02PM|#
if you were to never write about elderly sex again, it would be for the best.
Jack Donovan|6.18.08 @ 8:04PM|#
The variety that's out there now is staggering.
I recall reading an essay (I guess you could call it that) one man
wrote, chronicling the lesser known practice of Dolphin-fucking.
That's right, a man and a female Dolphin bumping uglies in a
lagoon. He goes into detail about the method, the emotional
baggage, what not to do, everything.
There is also something on youtube called "Quicksand Porn". Just
google it and you'll find it. Girls scantily dressed or in bikinis,
getting sucked into quicksand while moaning and writhing, sometimes
with a friend. I came upon this totally by accident whilst
researching quicksand.
I came upon the Dolphin article when I was doing a Dolphin porn
search.
Metal Messiah|6.18.08 @ 8:17PM|#
I can see it now... "Granny's First Bukkake" ... coming this fall from JM Productions.
|6.18.08 @ 8:32PM|#
stephen the goldberger,
You're Rick James, aren't you? Um, undead and everything, but you
still say, "I'm Rick James, bitch", right?
Jennifer|6.18.08 @ 9:54PM|#
So. . . you guys would be less grossed out by the thought of a horny old guy jacking off to images of women young enough to be his granddaughter?
|6.18.08 @ 9:59PM|#
As a long time SS recipient, I find ladies with a room temperature to be hotties. Tina Fey, you look great to me, Hell with the kids on here.
|6.18.08 @ 10:07PM|#
I found it interesting (god and H&R readers forgive me
for bringing it here) that the trend towards producing porn with
more "mature ladies" is occurring in response to market
signals:
Gee, ageist much? The sexism is pretty obvious, too.
I'm a 58-year-old male (would a female even read this
thread?),
Yes. Maybe even two or more of them would.
There is also something on youtube called "Quicksand Porn".
Just google it and you'll find it. Girls scantily dressed or in
bikinis, getting sucked into quicksand while moaning and writhing,
sometimes with a friend. I came upon this totally by accident
whilst researching quicksand.
I once met a guy who had a quicksand fetish. I had never heard of
it before he mentioned it, but I'm not really surprised now to hear
that there is quicksand porn, too. That guy probably has a
membership to that site.
Naga Sadow|6.18.08 @ 10:45PM|#
One word . . .
Bowchickabowwow!!!
Another word . . .
EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
TallDave|6.18.08 @ 10:53PM|#
Jennifer,
Well, we try not to think about that. And we certainly wouldn't
watch that video.
|6.18.08 @ 10:59PM|#
Eww eww ewww
Oh noes! Sexuality different than what I find attractive. Oh yuck
blech :P
All you prigs can lick the jam from my toes. Oh yeah, and regarding
elderly sex... It'll happen to YOU!... if you're lucky that is.
|6.19.08 @ 12:04AM|#
Ryuichi Kadowaki, director of Ruby Inc. which specializes in
"mature women" titles, says that when the company started the genre
a few years ago, the term referred to actresses in their late 20s,
and last year it was expanded to ladies in their 70s.
Don't worry, guys, there's no reason to be disgusted -- "elder"
just means late 20's in Japan (somehow I am not surprised by that).
Yep, in just a few short years I'll be a geriatric (by Japanese
standards) 30 years old.
This article strongly supports the thesis I've been championing,
that as porn consumption increases, actual sex decreases, and can,
as a result, adversely affect or dissolve relationships and
families. Well, relationships with people that care about sex,
anyway.
As I've been saying all along, porn addiction has the ability to
take its toll on society, and is doing so in the case of Japan.
The Wine Commonsewer|6.19.08 @ 12:37AM|#
As I've been saying all along, porn addiction has the
ability to take its toll on society, and is doing so in the case of
Japan.
Boy you got a lotta nerve saying that here. Doncha know that if ya
got porn and you can say fuck whenever you want that yer free?
The Wine Commonsewer|6.19.08 @ 12:48AM|#
Sexuality different than what I find attractive.
Taking into account any random misfiring synapses :-) y'all are
fighting biology. MY EYES (Franklin I'm talking to you!) is more of
a realistic cellular level response than you would think. There is
a reason why sweet young hotties look hot.
That isn't to say sensuality vanishes from the female persuasion at
25, it means we are programmed to perpetuate our species. And peak
fertility is where that happens.
And why is it that in the rest of the animal kingdom the males are
the pretty ones?
|6.19.08 @ 3:16AM|#
The late 20s= mature thing is the case in the US as well. many of the MILF porn sites feature actresses in their 20s. The guys chasing the "older" women ( or being seduced by them, of course) are often older.
Boston|6.19.08 @ 3:44AM|#
John C.,
I was going to say that as well. Basically i think it has to do
more with what story line they are going with. I wouldn't be
surprised to see the same actress do one shoot with her being a
"milf" or whatever and the next being a babysitter who is supposed
to be eighteen. But hey if you like watching fifty years olds go at
it you are more than welcome to. If you don't i dont think anyone
is forcing you.
JMR|6.19.08 @ 4:51AM|#
Let's see, I go to check Reason early in the morning, and the
top post mentions the long legged mac-daddy preacher. Now this, and
SOMEONE's got to mention Blue Iris to complete the Stern Show
relevance.
JMR
Taktix®|6.19.08 @ 8:31AM|#
I've never seen elderly porn, so someone will have to fill me
in:
Do they ever fall asleep halfway through?
|6.19.08 @ 9:28AM|#
Do they ever fall asleep halfway through?
No, but I'd probably pass out in disgust.
The Golden Rule of Sex Discussion
Let He Who Has Never Squicked, Cast The First
Stone.
Unless you can honestly say that you have never criticized someone
else's sexual proclivities, then you have no right to condemn my
"Ewwww."
|6.19.08 @ 10:01AM|#
No, smacky, it supports my thesis that as people have less sex,
they buy more porn! And what's methadone for porn addiction anyway?
Bowchickabowwow
Full disclosure: I watch porn. I tried to kick the stuff. I need
rehab.
|6.19.08 @ 10:03AM|#
you have never criticized someone else's sexual proclivities
OK, pedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia are just gross. Spacedocking and group sex are kinda borderline. Other than that, Bowchickabowwow.
|6.19.08 @ 10:23AM|#
No, smacky, it supports my thesis that as people have less sex, they buy more porn!
That's probably true, too. They can both be true. They're not
mutually exclusive truths.
|6.19.08 @ 10:25AM|#
Yeah, I know, smacky. I was just being a smartass. In all actuality, an excess of porn really is bad for you. But, you know, I'm a travellin' man.
|6.20.08 @ 1:24AM|#
miche wrote: "Um, what's spacedocking?"
I'm glad someone asked that, because I'm too scared to Google
it.
T|6.20.08 @ 9:48AM|#
Tangentially relevant anecdote: My sister's boyfriend's parents
live in Sun City , Arizona with the rest of the old folks. Because
of Viagra, the STD rates among the elderly in Sun City have gone up
dramatically. I was also informed, in one of the strangest
conversations I never want have again, that the old people get up
real early and go screw on the park benches at like, 5 AM or
something, so you have to be careful to check the bench for spooge
and whatnot if you go to the park later in the day. Also, I was
told to make sure when you walk your dog in the park that the dog
doesn't start chewing on discarded rubbers.
The more you know...
miche|6.20.08 @ 10:14AM|#
Jack,
Since ArtPOG hasn't answered, I looked it up. Be VERY thankful you
didn't Google it from work or anywhere important.
Spacedocking is shitting inside a vagina. (source: Urban
Dictionary)
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