Saaya Irie.
I’m a big fan of softcore porn and a watcher of the phenomenon I’ve been referring to as demi-porn, the nudity-free sex material designed to be ‘legal’ on mainstream websites and social networks.
Demi-porn (which needs a better name, ‘aircore pornography’?) Aircore is as close to reality as porn gets. We all experience our first unwanted stiffies in response to a cuddle, jiggle or glimpse of underwear and even as adults, outside strip-clubs and swingers events, the people we meet who turn us on usually do so without displaying their genitals.
While hardcore porn is foreplay for people who think like Bonobos, aircore feels real. It’s a visual flirtation which is hard to pull off without great photography, stunning models and a stockpile of ideas that goes beyond woman-licking-ice-cream-cone and ensures the softest porn is invariably the best looking.
Then there’s the downside.
Aircore porn’s requirement that viewers involve their imaginations, as well as their lubricated digits, makes it as easy for pornographers to sexualize anything and leave the interpretation to us. Nabokov got into trouble for doing it in print after writing ‘Lolita’, a book that’s either a hymn to lusting after little girls or the study of a broken man depending on your perspective.
While softcore and hardcore porn are restricted by law, aircore’s limitlessness makes separating the innocent from the deviant close to impossible. It’s as scary as Nabakov because it asks us all to be our own censor.
Saaya Irie is a Japanese actress, model and ‘gravure idol’ known for her bikini-shots and rabid fanbase. Her rapidly growing popularity online amongst adult men in the UK (typical message-board posting “I’ve got to admit - I’d hit it”) is worrying because Saaya’s 12 years old. Younger even than Lolita, of flesh and blood, and far less artfully exploited.
British men seem to have discovered the niches in foreign cultures which allow greater sexualization of children than the UK and are now exploiting them via the internet. Ironically, the aircore material they’re enjoying is too soft to be affected by laws designed to combat child pornography and, as the law should, challenges us to focus on intent over appearance.
As porn becomes more complex and easier to obtain, how will we manage the gap between ‘acceptable’ sexuality and what some people really want without impinging our freedom to imagine?
Great article, only… “Nabokov”
What about Lewis Carroll?
Carlos - Thanks for the correction. What a tard I am…
Rocio - What about Lewis Carroll?
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