Salarymen mainstream mobile porn
Yes boys and girls, mobile video pornography is running rampant with the infamous Japanese salaryman.
"Phone Sex" no longer pertains to a lurid voice or text message of "What are you wearing?" With Japan's 3G networks and robust handset functionality, the business of supplying adult movies for mobile phones is steadily swelling according to Asahi Geino---a male oriented Japanese magazine focusing on sensationalized stories, celebrity gossip, yakuza (Japan's organized crime syndicate), and articles with erotic content or about sex. 90% of the readership are middle aged, married, male salarymen. Think of it as a bizarre blend of Newsweek, The New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and The National Enquirer.
"Stick Flicks"
For a monthly fee of a few hundred yen, that's about US$ 2.75 boys, they have unlimited access to as many Japanese "stick flicks" as they wish. Less than the cost of one ring tone!
"Mobile phone adult movie channels have all the different genres. Some major adult productions normally on sale in the marketplace have also been reformatted to suit mobile phones," a source well-versed in the mobile phone content market tells Asahi Geino. "These options are becoming really popular, mainly among salarymen who want to be able to watch these movies without their families finding out."
Japan's Lovestyle
A Japanese business called "Lovestyle" is providing the adult movies accessible by mobile phones. "We take old contents like the shijuhate (literally "The 48 Hands," the name given to the traditional Japanese charts of different sex positions), give it a new name like 'Titanic' or something and then provide photo and video footage of each of the positions. We use the video footage to show the insertion angles that achieve the greatest feeling and each position has its own individual explanation,"
said a company spokesman. Let's consider this for a moment--rendering a picture down to at most a 2" x 3" screen (the iPhone isn't available in Japan yet) gives how much detail?
Yet, the service is ringing up attractive profits. But given the "face culture" of Japan, it has become a source for scam artists preying on the pride of some. Many whose identities have been stolen have ended up with large bills from mobile phone adult movie content providers whose services they've never heard nor frequented. But they pay anyway rather than taking up an embarrassing fight that wrongfully exposes them as having a proclivity for "portable porn." Umm, "portable porn" used to be a hard copy of Playboy. My how things have changed....
The men's weekly says that though the market is limited to Japanese operator au (KDDI), that should also serve as a safety valve for users because they know if they use a service on that carrier it should have been confirmed as a legitimate provider. On the other hand, any adult movies connected with companies like Softbank or NTT DoCoMo should be approached with caution. "That's true, but even so adult movie makers are setting up sites for DoCoMo users one after the other and mobile phone AV is on the verge of becoming an everyday service," a writer on the flesh film industry tells Asahi Geino.
"Some adult movie production companies have mobile phone site links on their official sites. If you check these out, it greatly reduces the risk of getting caught up in a scam."
There you have it. Soon to be arriving in the US...probably 5 years from now.
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