We’ve written our fair share about the Japanese and their freakishness sex (see examples here and here) so I thought I’d keep in the spirit of this tradition by sharing a few things I learned this past year from a couple of new Japanese porn star friends:

It is illegal to bring pornographic materials into Japan. Customs will frequently check out any DVDs/video tapes in your luggage to make sure it’s not X-rated. Usually they’ll just confiscate the material if they find any on you, but repeat offenders may face harsher penalties.

Bukkake may be best known as the term used to describe the sexual act where several men ejaculate on a woman, but the word has additional non-sexual meanings in Japan. Most notably, bukkake can also refer to noodle soup (i.e. bukkake udon). Only the Japanese would think of using one word to describe both facial ejaculation and food. Check out this commercial for bukkake udon:

A good number of Koreans and Chinese work in the adult film/sex industry. Chinese women come to Japan to work in the sex industry to make enough money so they can return home and open businesses. According to one of my Japanese porn star friends, the Chinese women hate Japanese men because they are “cold and distant” and would never be involved with them if not for the money. Koreans are involved in the sex industry for the same reason that a lot of them are also involved with the Yakuza and other organized crime groups—they’ve traditionally been treated as second-class citizens and those occupations are sometimes the only options open to them.

Kaitzenzushi kuabakura is the name of businesses that are combination sex clubs and fast-food sushi restaurants. Customers pay around ¥8,000 for 50 minutes to fondle the breasts of young women called Yamame desu (“trout lady”) who are dressed like sushi chefs who allow their breasts to slip out of their happi vests.

Sorry if I’m destroying any illusions here, but oftentimes the semen you see in porn flicks is fake. Sometimes the real stuff just doesn’t photograph well or the actor can’t produce enough so a substitute must be made and added to the scene. In case anyone is curious about how to make fake semen, check this out.

One of my porn star friends signed to do a project and the director told her his ambition was to make this the Titanic of adult movies. By that, she thought he meant he wanted to make an epic film that would change the face of the industry. But what he really meant, as she discovered when she showed up for her first day on the set, was that the film was going to be shot on a rickety old boat that was in danger of sinking.

“Elder porn” is a popular, new genre starring, uh, really old people. It’s the fasting growing porn market in Japan. It’s also great for porn producers because the films are cheaper to make since, well, you don’t have to pay old people as much as the hot, young stars. Here’s a CNN piece on this trend:

Finally, I asked my friends what sort of guy they found most attractive. Without any prodding from me and independent of each other, both porn stars answered that they thought Korean American guys with glasses who wrote for blogs founded by Asian American film directors whose last film grossed over $350 million were hot.

Wow, you really do learn something new everyday. Oh, and before I sign off, a little parting gift: