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"I like it when you write about food, fashion or porn," commented [livejournal.com profile] obelia after entries on South Korean porn stats and a Hokkaido "pudding factory". So here, for the girls, is another porn entry.

A friend wrote to me yesterday drawing my attention to a Japanese porn video series called MOMUSTYLE. There's even a film billed as Airi Momose in MOMUSTYLE, which is funny because it sounds like "Hairy Momus in MOMUSTYLE" (a tape I'm sure very few people would buy).



Now, I'm not sure why this series is called MOMUSTYLE -- perhaps it's meant to evoke teen girlband Morning Musume, since the blurb promises "more beautiful and younger girls than ever!!" But while, on purely textual criteria, Airi Momose in MOMUSTYLE may veer close to me, texturally this porn is not at all my cup of hot milk. For a start, there's no mosaic censorship sprinkling pixel-dust over the genitals, and I find porn with mosaics much sexier than porn without. Because taboo creates desire in a teasing dialectic; as I was thinking to myself yesterday, sitting opposite some stranger's vagina in the sauna, it's clothes that create nakedness.

"Thanks for the amusing URL, but I'm more of a Fairy Doll man myself," I wrote back to my friend.

Fairy Doll is a porn series from a Japanese company called Smiley. It's been running for five years and has reached its 40th tape (not including the gansha compilations, sequences of facial comeshots as disappointingly exciting, perhaps, as a penalty shoot-out or a diet of straight ice cream for a week -- after a while the patterns created by the spattering sperm become gestural paintings, pearly white on a flesh-coloured canvas).



The Fairy Doll formula is now pretty well established. It seems to be made by one person with quite a clear aesthetic mission. The girls have to be very young and pure-looking. They have to dress in a style that veers between Gothic Lolita, Maid Cafe (Hisae thinks the Smiley company may actually run maid cafes, or be affiliated with such a chain), Ballet Dancer and, well, Fairy. They have to submit to sex with a certain air of theatrical puzzlement and passivity, occasionally to feign a tear, and sometimes to have their necks gently squeezed (whether to increase their sexual pleasure or darken the scene with a shadow of cruelty isn't quite clear, but this company also retails a line of shibari rope play disks).

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If Hisae is right that these girls are recruited from a Maid Cafe, they've been pre-selected to appeal to the kind of shy, nerdy boys who frequent such places. Their softness, ultra-femininity and compliance appeals to men who find some corollary, in the girls' exaggerated and slightly ingenue and naive shyness, to their own. This, then, is soft (and lacy) porn for soft (and lacy) people, and I suppose that's what brings it closer than MOMUSTYLE to Momus style.

Right

Date: 2007-04-21 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zzberlin.livejournal.com
What I've read about the female desire to be dominated in sexual fantasy is that these women tend to have rather passive partners, and also tend to be the boss in the workplace. They just get tired of telling other people what to do all the time, and the fantasy is a release from that

The book I read (sorry, have forgotten the title) was by an M.D. who was primarily working with women that weren't happy with their fantasies and desires for domination. In one case, by helping the woman help her partner IRL assert himself more, she was able to stop being so much the boss in the partnership, and this changed her sexual desire for domination, gradually

In the past, I'd say about 10% of my sexual fantasies involved my being degraded. But then I decided to start acting on my fantasies; I got tired of having fantasies I never acted on. As I got closer to a sexual situation in which I was to be degraded (I was trying to set something up), I realized, gosh, I don't really want to be degraded in real life. I don't really want this scenario to happen

And then there were no more degradation fantasies in my imagination

It's weird, you read something like "The Erotic Core" and you realize how nearly impossible it is to change one's sexual desires. Yet by approaching something in my fantasy life, and realizing I didn't want it, my erotic core changed just a little bit

Re: Right

Date: 2007-04-21 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Same here. Tried some things, didn't like some of them. Trying them changes you because you've eternalized the wish. Yeah, sexualities are a nest for other desires with no home (paternal/maternal/child instincts, work issues, religious even..)

Re: Right

Date: 2007-04-21 11:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com
I suppose it's safe to assume that a good deal of those rather unpleasant sexual phantasies are the result of a certain fear, perhaps self-loathing, that can be overcome by exploring and getting to know one's sexuality. On the other hand it seems to me that overcompensation through self-denigration must be terrifically detrimental to one's happiness. It sounds as though you deserve praise for undertaking the former and avoiding the latter.

Re: Right

Date: 2007-04-22 01:56 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Well, kinkiness doesn't have to be pathology. It can simply be sex which involves all the faculties - mind and body, imagination and intellect, 'heart' and 'soul' - create sexual theatre around the bond, rather than try to find it in an orgasm. That's a lot of pressure to put on an orgasm!

Why would someone actually want to be submissive? Well, according to the literature:

Luxury of giving up responsibility
Feeling small/childlike/helpless again
Enjoy pain/fear endorphins
Enjoy bringing out someone else's imagination
Enjoy the strength of feeling and focus
Reenact issues to deal with them and control them

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