http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815509,00.html?cnn=yes

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"Besides his glowing complexion, Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 74-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack three years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but that's because he's kept his part-time job — as a porn star. Shigeo Tokuda is, in fact, his screen name — he prefers not to disclose his real name because, he insists, his wife and daughter have no idea that he has appeared in about 350 films over the past 14 years. And in his double life, Tokuda arguably embodies the contemporary state of Japan's sexuality: In surveys conducted by organizations ranging from the World Health Organization (WHO) to the condom-maker Durex, Japan is repeatedly found to be one of the most sexless societies in the industrialized world. A WHO report released in March found that one in four married couples in Japan had not made love in the previous year, while 38% of couples in their 50s no longer have sex at all. These figures were attributed to the stresses of Japanese working life. Yet, at the same time, the country has seen a surge in demand for pornography that has turned adult videos into a billion-dollar industry, with "elder porn" one of its fastest-growing genres."

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 6:58 PM. Reason : .]

6/18/2008 6:56:18 PM

Impossible Germany, Unlikely Japan

6/18/2008 6:57:05 PM

hahahah

6/18/2008 6:57:55 PM

"elder porn"


MY GOD!

6/18/2008 6:59:27 PM

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"L O L"

6/18/2008 7:02:03 PM

ELDER PORN, B. eh.

6/18/2008 7:02:36 PM

saw this today at work...

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM. Reason : for clarification, i saw the article, not the elderly porn.]

6/18/2008 7:40:06 PM

viagra had to lead to something

6/18/2008 7:41:13 PM

Ewwww.

Bob Dole.

6/18/2008 7:56:14 PM

yeah was gonna post this but was at work when I first saw the headline

6/18/2008 8:09:15 PM

Haha, that dude in the pic looks like a pimp with the suit and the pipe. At least the porn looks classy. God knows if it was lemon party type shit I'd just write off Japan as insane.

6/18/2008 8:11:58 PM

omg Japan

6/18/2008 8:16:44 PM

i dont see that guy and think 'pimp'

when i think 'pimp' i think purple and fuzzy

6/18/2008 8:18:21 PM

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"Japan is repeatedly found to be one of the most sexless societies in the industrialized world."

Poor Japan

6/18/2008 8:21:43 PM

Just think, he lived through the war and now has sex for money.

6/19/2008 12:48:31 PM

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"i dont see that guy and think 'pimp' when i think 'pimp' i think purple and fuzzy"

These are Japanese pimps, not American pimps!

6/19/2008 12:49:35 PM

Japanese pimps are smaller and more efficient.

6/19/2008 12:53:36 PM

out of all the fetish and cartoon porn from Japan

"elder porn" is probably the least weird.

6/19/2008 12:54:16 PM

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"A WHO report released in March found that one in four married couples in Japan had not made love in the previous year"

6/19/2008 12:57:12 PM