AV

AV stands for Adult Video, i.e. porn movies. AV is a huge business in Japan, with about 1000 companies producing more than 30 new titles, both legal and illegal, each day! AV is easily available in Japan, and there are even vending machines for them on the street, although as a nod to the protection of minors the display is covered with a photo-sensitive material to black it out during the daylight hours. In fact AV has quite high public exposure in Japan, with AV actresses regularly appearing on TV and in magazines, and having their own websites and fanzines. There are even schools where aspiring actors and actresses can be taught the necessary skills to succeed in the business, but although good money can be made as an AV star, a typical career will last only 1 or 2 years. The predominant skills needed by AV actresses are extreme youth, an aura of innocence and sexual inexperience, and the knack of enthusiastic compliance with the instructions and desires of the men. Older, more sexually experienced, actresses are rare. Many videos will spend the first half of the movie with the young actress fully clothed, being interviewed by the (always older) male. Her innocence and inexperience firmly established, she will then be seduced by him. In the final consummation, her eyes will remain closed, and rather than moaning and groaning, she will emit whines and squeaks, rather like the sounds of a young puppy. Legal and illegal AV differs little in content, but in legal AV genitalia and pubic hair are censored by mosaic pixelation. In Japan, genitals are considered pornographic, but pedophilia and violent rape are not.