AV Idols, the glory of porn JAV tradition

The line between family entertainment and adult entertainment in Japan is very thin. This has allowed many adult video actresses to move between the world of porn and generalist television while maintaining their successful image. We can say with some envy that there is a little less hypocrisy in this country than elsewhere.

The so-called AV Idols are in fact a highly respected and very popular category. They reached their peak in the 1990s, when the Japanese porn industry was leading the world production, greatly surpassing that of the entire United States of America. It was estimated to turn over about $4 billion a year, a record figure that is even more impressive when you calculate that most production took place in the city of Tokyo alone, which offered more than 70 hard video production houses. Numbers that today have obviously given way to the new reality of porn, where amateur perhaps exceeds the numbers of yesteryear, but professional productions have been scaled back considerably by the advent of free porn.

An impressive pornographic production

When there was no Internet yet, back in the glorious 1990s, an estimated 30 percent of videotape rentals were porno videos. In 1994, porn video production in Japan reached 14,000, compared with 2,500 in the U.S. But the popularity of porn and its stars did not end in the 1990s. In 2011 AV Idol Azusa Maki claimed in an interview that every year 10 thousand girls try to become AV Idols because of the popularity it can bring.

Normally an AV Idol's career lasts a few productions, five on average. Only the most liked ones manage to break through the wall and actually become famous. They are given the chance to break out of the porn world and become popular in general entertainment as well, and why not, even family entertainment.

A porn niche always in vogue

Today there is a queue to find the best Jav porn sites. There is indeed a need for someone to check for the public and do a minimum of filtering in order to find the sites where actually the best AV idols showcase their qualities, their talents, their curvaceous and exciting bodies. Porn here is serious business, and Japanese porn stars are praised as true goddesses. There is no doubt that the tradition of Japanese porn gives added value to these girls and the products that in fact are so successful in the market.

In fact, Japanese porn sites have a place of honor in all the best lists listing the best Asian porn sites, given the quality, skills, and passion that the actresses put into satisfying the needs of the audience.

There is one thing, however, that seems really paradoxical about Japanese porn, but it actually encapsulates the meaning of it all: the obsession with censorship. It is indeed very common to see videos and photographs, and even hentai, censored through pixelation. This is because the government has for years maintained the censorship law, and there is a real obsession with Japanese girls' vagina hair. This has caused pussy to become a real obsession that has also stimulated the minds of artists in the land of the rising sun.