Consumer Involvement In Japanese Pornography Production

Abstract

The authors examined two pornographic film series produced in Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century, as well as their DVD box cover advertising copy. Additionally, and crucially, these data were examined in light of online forum posts made by the producers and consumers of the two film series before, during and after their production. These posts indicate consumer-producer cooperation and collaboration in all aspects of the series’ planning and execution, in addition to consumer involvement in the perpetration of the filmed sex acts and abuses themselves. The discussion of the article emphasizes the accelerating effect of online collaboration between pornographic film producers and consumers regarding the severity of harms then visited upon female victims. It was noted that these victims are most often women in the sex industry. The article further highlights the (consumer) demand-pull effect that online forums have on the production and dissemination of pornography, in contrast to (producer) supply-push effects that have been emphasized in other feminist anti-pornography research.