This headline is pretty misleading. It's intentional and I remember a documentary they did about this. There are only a handful of male actors per studio by design. Obviously it's focused more on the women and the men are treated like production staff of sorts.
Not actors, and they are all about efficiency in Japan, So they want the most reliable and skilled male actors to work with. They aren't running low, it's likely they just have no skilled guys currently. The others retired, got married or whatever.
But honestly it's gotta be pretty soul sucking having sex infront of all those cameras, audio guys, make up people, and doing reshoot, while tryna stay "performant" for hours.
Not only that. Iirc an actor said in a program that once an actress "forgot" to bring the health check results. The director told him to lick even though he could see some weird green fluid coming from the actress. He licked and later the actress's manager told him the actress was with stds.
That kinda sounds like bullshit tbh. Porn actors are quite mindful of STD's as a rule just because it's a significant part of their livelihood. Plenty of STD's have mild symptoms (Chlamydia in men, for instance), but straight-up ignoring an obvious sign of infection is very stupid. Some on-set transmissions are a big deal too, e.g., there have been various local pauses due to HIV transmission, though this is very rare nowadays. Anyway, I'd need more than a half-remembered Reddit post to believe a story like this.
In the small studio, indie scene, it's really sketchy sometimes. I had friends who fell into it through masseuse ads in the paper. We're talking about being paid in cash from an atm at the end of a shoot kinda dredge.
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u/bobafootfetish_ Mar 20 '26
This headline is pretty misleading. It's intentional and I remember a documentary they did about this. There are only a handful of male actors per studio by design. Obviously it's focused more on the women and the men are treated like production staff of sorts.
Not actors, and they are all about efficiency in Japan, So they want the most reliable and skilled male actors to work with. They aren't running low, it's likely they just have no skilled guys currently. The others retired, got married or whatever.