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As a big country in the customs industry, Japan shoots more than 70,000 adult films a year, which can generate an output value of 500 billion yuan.
And behind this amazing income is the credit of countless AV actresses. It is understood that at least 10,000 women are willing to "go to the sea" every year, including not only rich women, but also high-achieving students and peasant girls.
Some people wonder whether these young Japanese women are "willing to degenerate" or "forced to become prostitutes"? The reason is worth pondering.
Rich girls and high-achieving students are all keen on the custom industry
In December 2023, a shocking news was that the 23-year-old Japanese actress Noa Sakuraguki announced her retirement from the Takarazuka Opera Company and entered the AV world.
Takarazuka is a national treasure song and dance troupe in Japan, and many national actresses were born from it, and it is enough to be selected into it.
Being selected for the Takarazuka Song and Dance Troupe is not only a symbol of strength, but also a symbol of family background. The actresses who can be selected for Takarazuka are all rich or expensive.
Sakurazuki Noa was born into a wealthy family, and has 20 years of experience in ancient ballet, with beautiful looks and outstanding figures, and was admitted to the highly competitive Takarazuka at the age of 14.
She should have better development prospects, but now she unexpectedly chose to "go to the sea" to make a film, which is really incomprehensible.
In fact, there are many rich girls and high-achieving students in the Japanese customs industry, and they all seem to yearn to become AV actresses.
For example, Nozomi Aso is an actress who has attracted much attention, she was born in a famous family in Japan, and is an authentic daughter, who has been proficient in painting, piano, etc. since she was a child. But such a beautiful lady has embarked on a path that parents don't understand.
The first highly educated female student to become an actress was named Kuroki Kao, who graduated from Yokohama National University, and Sho Nishino was also a highly educated actress, graduated from Waseda University in Japan, which is a well-known institution that benchmarks against China's 985 universities.
The well-known writer Ryomi Suzuki also went to the sea, in addition to her noble birth, she is also a high-achieving student, graduated from the University of Tokyo, and is recognized as a talented woman.
But in order to resist her mother's high-pressure surveillance, she chose to enter the AV world and shot hundreds of adult films.
In addition to high-achieving students and rich girls, even many people in the Japanese sports industry choose to "go to the sea". For example, Kanai Monroe is one of them, she is known as the "ski genius", not only has excellent talent, but also looks beautiful, at the age of 14 has won the national championship, becoming the love of countless men.
But when competing in the Olympics, Kanai Monroe was unexpectedly defeated, and he collapsed and began to embark on the road of AV. In addition, Japanese badminton player Nana Saeki and synchronized swimmer Akane Katahira have both gone to the sea.
Even the 81-year-old Yuko Ogasawara chose to make her debut and shoot an AV movie every year, although she is in her old age, she is still in good shape, and there are still many highlights.
It is known that one out of every 200 Japanese women joins the custom industry. Some people are curious, why did these people give up their bright future and choose to become AV actresses that everyone discriminates against?
Packaging promotion in the media
As early as the Heian period (794-1192), Japan produced a variety of works depicting love, and ukiyo-e also featured scenes of love between men and women.
During this period, the Japanese erotic industry also ushered in a boom, and large cities such as Edo and Nagasaki had places to sell prostitution, and women were not ashamed of this, and some parents even sent their daughters to brothels.
It is this culture of "sexual tolerance" that has made the Japanese AV scene very prosperous today, and countless women have volunteered to become actresses.
In a Japanese survey, 78% of women answered yes when asked if they would like to make adult films, and 32% said they had ever made adult films.
In order to become actresses, many women even spend money on plastic surgery just to enter this circle. In the eyes of these women, it is an honor to be able to enter the AV world.
But these perceptions are nothing more than deceptive propaganda by the Japanese media.
The profession of an AV actress is not taboo in Japan, and many media will promote it on TV stations or social platforms, rendering the high income and enviable life of actresses.
There are also some actresses who will go on variety shows to show off their high income, and the income from filming a film can buy a luxury apartment.
Under the temptation of money, countless women have changed their original career plans and began to tend to enter the AV world.
In particular, those who are rich women, high-achieving students, or those who have achieved results in their respective fields can use their background advantages to make a name for themselves in the highly competitive AV world and attract more attention.
In addition to becoming an actress, there are also a group of people who volunteer to become "Miss PR", such as "First Female PR", her luxury life has attracted the attention of countless girls, and she also encourages girls to enter this industry, so that they can quickly "wealth freedom".
Reduced to the streets, forced to do it
In Tokyo, Japan, many women are forced to live on the streets due to difficulties in survival. For example, although Ito is a university student, due to her poor family, her single mother cannot pay too much tuition, so she can only go to school while working.
But after graduation, what awaits her is not a glamorous job, but because of professional restrictions, she encounters a wall everywhere to find a job, and she doesn't even have money to rent a house, so she can only choose to wander homeless.
There was no way, in order to change his life, Ito could only grit his teeth and choose to go to the sea.
In the 2014 Japanese documentary "Women's Poverty", it tells the story of women with low social status, because they can't find a job, they can only dress up and provide "special services" everywhere.
Among these people are college students, white-collar workers, and divorced mothers, who have no choice but to devote themselves to the customs industry because of their poverty.
According to relevant data, when Japanese women aged 15-34 are employed, one in three is in negative equity, and more than 80% are below the poverty line, which is a manifestation of the low status of Japanese women.
Japanese women have been brainwashed by the idea of "male superiority and inferiority" since childhood, and their job is only to starve to death before marriage. Due to workplace discrimination in Japan, 8 out of ten women can only be reduced to "temporary workers", not enjoying the treatment of regular workers, and the salary is only about half.
Between 2013 and 2020, there were 3.4 million more women in the workforce in Japan, but 7 out of 10 of them were non-regular contract workers, and most of them worked in the restaurant industry with no skilled skills.
Japan's economy will enter an unprecedented recession in 2023, GDP will be overtaken by Germany, and the employment pressure on women will increase unprecedentedly, and more than half of Japanese female students will find it difficult to find jobs.
Women who do not have employment opportunities can only choose to join the high-reward industry, which has also given birth to the development of "personal AV" in Japan in recent years, and countless women have come to apply, ranging in age from 20 to 60, and their common denominator is a serious lack of money.
In contrast, going to the sea or engaging in PR can indeed provide a decent level of income for women, and many women see it as a means to improve their lives. For example, Japanese actress Mikami earned 20-300,000 yen during the idol period, but now she earns more than 40 million yen from AV works.
Forced to go to the sea in disguise
In Japan, many women "go to the sea" because they are initially "tricked into entering the industry". A Japanese government survey found that 25 percent of women who "went to the sea" were initially tricked.
In the bustling streets of Yokohama, Nagasaki, Osaka, and Tokyo, you can see all kinds of "scouts", and when they see young women, they will lure them in in various ways.
Young girls who are not deeply involved in the world can easily resist the temptation of huge remuneration and go astray.
At a meeting of the Japanese cabinet, the results of a survey at the end of 2022 were revealed, and they interviewed 20,000 Japanese women aged 15-39, of which 5,200 had been co-opted by "talent scouts", and 200 women had signed a "sky-high price deed of sale", only to know that they were forced to become "actresses" after the contract came into effect.
Under the constraints of the contract, most women can only choose to compromise and shoot according to the requirements of the client.
But with the spread of the media, this scam has been seen by many people, but the bigwigs behind the scenes have created the "Cowherd Club" debt trap.
In Tokyo, Japan, the number of cowherd clubs has proliferated, and the trick behind it is that when young women come to make purchases, the clubs offer one-hour low-cost drinks and encourage women to continue to patronize.
But next time, the price of the drink will rise by 1/3, and once a woman becomes a repeat customer, the cowherd shop will begin to "kill the ripe". Every time a woman comes, the fee rises tenfold, and the third payment is as high as 300,000 yen.
At this time, the women realized that they had been deceived, but they had no money to pay it back, so they could only accept the arrangement of the cowherd shop to shoot pornographic videos.
In this way, the cowherd store will be able to harvest more young women to shoot adult videos and make huge profits from it.
5. The sorrow of Japanese women
Don't think that as long as you enter the AV world, you can make money lying down, in fact, these companies have a lot of rules.
Japan's AV companies are mixed, and even established companies like "SOD" will sign tens of millions of "deeds of sale" with their girlfriends. But the competition in the AV industry is very fierce, and there are many newcomers, once the old man can't arouse the interest of fans, I'm afraid he can only be willing to fall and no one cares.
Those small workshops are cheating under the slogan of "recruiting fashion models", and some young girls sign contracts without knowing what to do, resulting in a meager income, and even will be subject to breach of contract and extortion and "cheating", etc., it is difficult to get out of this industry.
There are many actresses who commit suicide or die of hard work due to various circumstances, such as Michi Hiroko died of exhaustion in order to support her family, and Nanami Yokomiya, an actress in her early 20s, committed suicide, and on the day of the funeral, her last work in her life had just been released.
The Japanese media's propaganda that AV actresses are not discriminated against is fake, and many actresses are finally pointed at by their families, relatives and friends because of the "shame culture" of society, and are alienated or ridiculed by acquaintances, so they can only live alone for the rest of their lives or marry their peers. Luckily, like Sora Aoi, he found the "pick-up man", but when he was pregnant, he would still be ridiculed and scolded by netizens.
There are also many female talents, because they can't afford to pay liquidated damages or are discriminated against, so they can only choose to commit suicide.
Japanese AV actress Ai Iijima "went to the sea" when she was 18 years old and chose to commit suicide 18 years later. She is a legendary actress, received by leaders of many countries, published an autobiography, and appeared on variety shows, and her death shocked all walks of life in Japan.
Finally, Japan passed the "AV Appearance Victim Prevention and Relief Law" to protect the rights and interests of AV actresses in various ways.
But even so, most of the AV actresses have a miserable ending, and when they are old and decrepit, they will be abandoned by the company, and they can only continue to be oppressed by the cruel society.
The sorrow of Japanese women, in addition to the traditional idea of "male superiority and inferiority of women", also has a lot to do with the oppression of black-hearted capital, and women are forced to become "erotic commodities".
It is hard to imagine that in Japan, the world's fourth largest economy, there are so many Japanese women who are helplessly struggling and complaining in the abyss at the bottom of society.
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