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Some stuff we could debate here, gathering from all the threads I remember on this forum are (and I'll express these as my opinions on these topics):
- Japanese customers are ruining JAV by wanting the youngest girls possible, not giving a lot of chance to those older ones — or quickly losing interest for those who stay in JAV for long (thus, JAV becomes like a conveyor belt, with the "goods" on it having very short shelf life)
- This, combined with the trend toward digital isolation of JAV (meaning that only the Japanese get to decide what JAV should look like) is discriminatory towards all those interested in Japan (no matter the reason, even if it's porn) and thus contradicts the Japan's overt "openness to foreigners" (there are a lot of examples of such contradictions, but this is one of them): we cannot easily buy JAV and thus cannot influence, with our demand, what we would like to see
- Not enough information for foreigners on JAV stars being available for escort etc.! Again, Japan is still very... apprehensive (to use a mild word) of foreigners in terms of anything that comes to letting them into a lot of places that are not for tourists (hot springs are another example, and yes, you could say that it's usually because of tattoos, and there is a reason why tattoos are historically frowned upon in Japan... but hey, there were historical reasons for the US to buy slaves... but they don't anymore... so... what's the difference really? Isn't it discrimination by skin pigments?), including brothels; I totally understand that if you cannot ask people to speak your language, but what about those who speak Japanese well enough? They would likely still not be let into most such places as they are not Japanese or at least not Japanese-looking... and I'm not sure how to feel about that... Yes, you cannot make people have sex with those they don't want to, "even" for money... but if that's about the rest of the whole f...ing world... I think that smells like discrimination again
This all could be argued the same way: hey, it's Japan, it's for Japanese people, let them do what they want. But again (if we're being jerks and generalizing), Japan
seems to want to have its cake and eat it too (keep the old ways in the new world), which means it is either a hypocrite (wanting all the good things about capitalism and democracy, wanting to sell its image around the world via anime, and manga, and electronics, and so on — but, at the same time, wanting to
remain isolated), or it's confused. I think it's the latter, but it's still f...ing annoying sometimes (and I'm writing all of this just to vent mostly; there are more aspects to this, obviously, as can be seen in the discussion
here, for example; it could be easily argued that it's a third option: wanting to balance isolation and openness... which is basically what we all do... but that's not an interesting stance for debates)
