Speaking of porn, one of the fastest growing segments of the porn industry is elder porn (AKA Granny Porn), and Japan — a country with a surprising appetite for pornography; and by surprising I mean McDonald’s-replacing-French-fries-with-Brussels-sprouts type of surprising — has the world’s oldest known porn star, Shigeo Tokudo, 75.
Mr. Tokudo has been a star of sex and screen for fourteen years, with over 350 titles in his filmography. That’s an average of two porn movies per month!
Mr. Tokudo has a theory as to why elder porn is popular in Japan. “People of my age generally have shame. So they are very hesitant to show their private parts,” Tokuda says. "But I am proud of myself doing something they cannot." Still, he says, laughing, “That doesn't mean that I can tell them about my old-age pensioner job."8
Shigeo Tokudo, 75, is single-handedly responsible for putting the lead back in aging pencils all across Japan.
Let’s give a hand to Mr. Tokudo, overturning stereotypes about older people and their sexuality. While we’re at it, let’s give Japan a hand too. Clearly, someone in Japan is buying Mr. Tokudo’s and the other elder porn stars’ films.
Ryuichi Kadowaki, president of Ruby Productions, says they started producing adult videos with people in their thirties to good sales. Then, they creeped up to forty year old actors and they sold even better. So they recruited actors in their fifties and sixties. Now, they're producing an entire line of adult videos with actors — like Tokuda — in their seventies.
“Adult videos with young actresses sell well only in the first three months after the release. On the other hand," says Kadowaki, "mature-women films enjoy a steady, long-term popularity.”
Mature women. Long-term popularity. That’s what we at The Gramma Sutra have been saying for years!
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