“Hello Titty 7″: Shame, other things on you

If breasts and a vagina were all that was required of a willing partner, then men would never tire of their wives. Luckily there is so much more. In Japan, for example, one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs is shame.

I enjoy titles from Third World Media because, in addition to seeing something different than the same old places (in this case, we’re in Tokyo), we are often privy to a totally different motivation from the cast: the urge to have sex on film despite the crushing weight of expectation from millennia of ancestors as well as the wrath of vengeful, Butoh-dancing ghosts.

Anyone who has watched a performer delivering a blowjob to someone else while looking straight at the camera knows that porn personnel are acutely aware of their audience. But Japanese performers consider the audience when deciding whether to work or not.

Japanese pornography can be divided into two prefectures: mosaic and non-mosaic. In mosaic porn, penetration and pubic hair are pixelated out. Performers, therefore, might be engaging in an American-style hardcore scene on camera but, because they know that the pixelation protects a certain amount of their family’s honor, there is no shame.

“AV Girls” in these kinds of films are usually better paid and are bigger stars.

Non-mosaic performers, like the kind in “Hello Titty 7,” have the assurance that their movies are illegal to be sold in Japan, but there is also a lessened status inherent in the clinical display of all the parts. The thinking is that only the more attractive women can get away with being mosaiced, while those with fewer options have to submit to full nakedness.

And this has led to the further fetishization of shame, as consumers look for performances that appear particularly uncomfortable.

As you can see from these pictures, however, some of the performers don’t appear to be ashamed and they look just fine.

But that is the greater societal context of what you are seeing when you watch a movie like “Hello Titty” – shame – just as you know that Kagney Linn Karter is thinking “Have to put on a good show for Gram!” when she is performing here in Chatsworth.

• Buy “Hello Titty 7″ here

Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Japanese porn exporters put their money where the mosaic is; Carmen Luvana – the mosaic is the message
See also: Third World Media