Shigeo Tokuda is not the actual name of a certain 74-year-old man who has suffered three heart attacks, has a wife and daughter, and is one of Japan’s biggest porn stars. It’s his stage name, and he’s appeared in over 350 films, unbeknownst to his family.
Yes, Japan is a breeding grown for elder porn, a niche that, thanks to the web, has become less stigmatized, if you also consider S&M porn to have become less stigmatized.
While Americans are excellent in churning out gay twink flicks and college-aged raunch, Japan’s exceeding in the old folks market, where demand for elder porn has doubled in the past decade.
The same country that’s built its economy on exporting electronics, then, is also propping up its $1 billion porn market with seniors. The growing niche, it appears, can be explained in this way:
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Like cheerleading or lumberjacking, Double Dutch is one of those sports that is rarely thought about outside of the people who think about it way too much.
But for jumpers, as we imagine they???re called, it???s crunch time. Next month is the Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the Apollo. And lately, the Japanese teams have been dominating, winning top honors four of the past five years.
So what???s an over-funded American team supposed to do in the face of such competition? In the case of the Bouncing Bulldogs from Chapel Hill, pay their way to victory. The team flew to Japan to ???study??? Japanese Double Dutch techniques.
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