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Good for you if you like that sort of thing. Too fast, frenetic and sex-act focused for me. Also, I don't get the attraction of depicting people doing it with those in their own little gene pool, let's say, and there seems to be a lot of that.

I'm not performer oriented so I can't assess her viability as a great JAV star. What I can do is comment about her specifically. The legs, as you suggest, are as good as they get. It helps that she's tall, and that tends to accentuate them. Also on the great side are her hands --- beautifully elegant and a joy to look at. Great hands are rare; as a photographer I've more often than not had to put models in poses that hid their hands. As for facial beauty, a mixed bag. When she is not smiling, she has some classic beauty characteristics. However, when she smiles, that vanishes. Her mouth is too wide, she is far too toothy --- and a broad smile rounds her face out to take on a jack-o-lantern look. And her tongue is huge. The tits seem perfectly proportionate to he body, and nicely formed and colored nipples. From a performance standpoint, two things. First, she seems to truly like sucking dick. At least she is convincing in that regard, and that's important. The oversize tongue is an asset here, and she does a lot of licking with it. Best of all, she has an active pussy. She does not just lie still waiting for the pleasure to come to her. She actively reaches out for it, and I love women who do that. Overall I'd rate her a far better than average actor.

Art? Yes, adult video entertainment can absolutely contain artistic expression. Thank you for saying so. I would have two points of contention. First is the comparison with entertainment wrestling. That blight on society is intended as pure spectacle using fully contrived scripting that glorifies aggression — selling it as justified by anger and rage. There is nothing societally healthy about that. Relating it to the sensual arts seems like saying you see a Rodin sculpture in a soft-serve ice cream cone. Second is the great letdown — I expected specific films to be named as examples. Instead you wimped out simply citing possible genres. Allow me to make up, in small part, for this shortcoming. I will place one of my favorite JAV films, “The Penis Cafe” in the “art film” category. It is beautifully rendered and elucidates a world where women have absolute sexual freedom. It is critical and disruptive of patriarchy in as matter-of-fact a way as could possibly be. Pure art. Another film I can’t name, but it portrays growth and communication between couples as foundational to relationships. The couple is enduring some hardship because the husband is out of work. A neighbor recommends the wife in the relationship for a job as a bar waitress. The bar also functions as a sort of public house of sex, and the wife is convinced to allow herself to be used. It’s then she discovers her husband also works there, and they have to face this truth together — finally strengthening their relationship. It has convincing sex, both hetero and lesbian and excellent, emotional acting. Sort of in the comedy genre, I’d place a film shot in a retail store where people are shopping. Dicks unexpectedly pop out of walls, counters, refrigerated cases, etc. and women suck them off. It is so casual, bizarre and yet commonplace that it’s suggestive of society where all sorts of things are going on in front of us that we never notice or even acknowledge. I could go on, but that’s enough for a comment. Perhaps in another blog post you could suggest more titles that conform to your concepts of art.

Wages of Sin? It would seem impossible to argue against JAV (Japanese Adult Video) being more intimate, more nuanced in relationships, more real feeling than WAV) Western Adult Video. It’s plainly why I prefer it. However, more interesting is causation. I think it’s sociological — fundamentally different cultures. Western culture is deeply uncomfortable with sex. Murder may be the only thing more traumatizing. I’d go so far as to say sex is characterized as a necessary evil. Sex has a power that nothing else in the culture can match. Anything openly sexual can instantly brand you a “pervert,” a sexual deviant, a slut, someone not worthy of civilized society. It must be hidden away, and its only acceptable justification is procreation. Sex as recreation is abhorrent. That’s what we tell ourselves. I believe this stems from religion. For centuries, religious leaders have used the power of sex to manipulate people — shame, guilt, embarrassment, criminality and social shunning — the “registered sex offender.” Marketers use sex to sell you beer. The bishops use it to keep you under their thumb. Since sex is generally verboten in Western culture, creating and watching WAV is doing something wrong, doing something you shouldn’t be doing, doing something that would get you in trouble. An actor on a set fundamentally feels this. So does the director and the camera operator and the lighting folks. It’s impossible to make intimate, heartfelt sexual scenes when you can’t believe in what you’re doing. That’s why all the falsity and craziness happens. The current tilt toward “step” sex reflects this. Let’s show step relatives having forbidden sex to step up the game. And more of the falsity shows in the insane obsession with giant dicks. Any man with a normal size dick in WAV is relegated to loser, cuckold, object of derision status. And the women must act like size queens and often endure pain to perpetrate this silliness. Japanese culture, as I've come to understand it from the outside, takes a more natural approach to sex. It’s treated more as a normal bodily function that everyone accepts. We all eat, we all breathe, we all have sex. Nothing exceptional about it, just part of being human — although a powerful and pleasurable aspect. JAV therefore is more natural for those producing it. They can fashion more realistic art in the process because they can feel good about what they’re doing. For me, that is one more great thing about the wonderful culture of Japan.

While AI may be our current reigning distraction from the real world, it seems questionable to test it against an area so constrained by age, political and societal barriers. You are asking what is essentially a sophisticated search engine to deliver results where it has tremendously limited access. Bu then, I am someone who endured many years of column deadlines, so I understand the temptation. I resist AI rather vehemently, yet I also pay attention to it's development. The best thing I've seen about it for writers was delivered a couple of days ago in The New York Times. Yale University professor Meghan O’Rourke wrote an op-ed about her experiences with it. She found both positives and negatives. The best of it came when the model told her: “Style is the imprint of attention. Writing as a human act resists efficiency because it enacts care.” This could sum up your experience here --- the Zenra writers deliver something worth reading because they care, and the machine obviously does not.