1 in every 200 Japanese women have appeared in an adult video, claim pornographers with an intimate knowledge of the industry’s vital statistics.

Amongst Japan’s AV industry the claim has been made that of an average Japanese school year of some 400 students, of the 200 girls at least one will turn out to be a porn star.

An industry insider supposedly explains that the figure is more than just delusional slander against Japan’s admittedly less than pristine womanfolk:

The number of AV titles produced annually, if we include online and underground videos, is said to be in the region of 35,000 titles. Simple arithmetic suggests 100 videos a day are being released. Since we see from 2,000 to 3,000 new AV girls making their debut each year, it’s said that 150,000 women have worked in the industry. There are some 30 million women aged 19 to 55 in Japan, so the 150,000 performers give us the rough “1 in 200” figure.

Nobody can say for sure whether these numbers are correct, but adding to them the number of women involved in Japan’s enormous prostitution industry – whether formally in quasi-legal brothels or informally as “enjo kousai” harlots – rather suggests that it is at least not implausible to think that a great many Japanese women have such experience.

Online this is treated as old hat, not least with AV performers long since turning up in the most unexpected places, though it evidently also serves as a welcome outlet for venting all the pent up misogyny a lifetime without female company apparently engenders:

“We knew.” “Wherever you work, play or study, if you look hard enough through enough AVs, you will find an AV of one of the girls – how wonderful.” “I once picked up a girl who casually admitted appearing in one… it was good as she proceeded to do for me the same things as in the AV!” “My favourite performer changed her name 5 times though…” “Japanese girls are easy. Virtually all of them could be AV girls.” “Why up to 55? Surely it should be up to 30, in which case the proportion is rather higher…” “And the industry is totally centred on Tokyo, so it should be closer to 1 in 50 there, and much less elsewhere.” “There’s no real basis for the statistics they give in any case.” “90% of them come from the sex trade. There are clearly enough of them to give rise to the 150,000 AV girls figure.” “DMM have 180,000 titles. They’ve been around 10 years, so that is 18,000 a year.” “Non-virgins are disgusting sluts.” “I’m embarrassed to be Japanese.” “I think it is more like 2 in every 400.” “That’s if you count rank amateurs with only one appearance. But I expect 1 in 3 have experience of prositution though…” “AV is prostitution, you’re taking money to have sex with men after all. Include prostitutes and sluts and you probably get most women.” “It’s all those filthy Korean sluts.” “Most of them are just Koreans!” “It should be ‘1 in every 200 AV girls are Japanese’.” “Are these people who bring Koreans into every single thread Koreans themselves or something? Give it a rest already.” “The net right can’t decide whether it should be bashing women or bashing Korea so this is the result.” “You guys just blame anything inconvenient on the Koreans…” “Japanese women are the world’s worst bitches. They are worse at doing the chores than English women, more selfish than American women, more arrogant than French women, and as greedy as Korean or Chinese women. And their hobbies are bullying and killing their kids. Cockroaches have more sense of shame than Japanese women.” “Stop bashing your fellow Japanese – this is all a plot by Korean agents!” “This topic really set off the net-uyo, didn’t it?” “Most only have 1 or 2 appearances, I’m sure. Only a tiny number will be professional AV performers.” “Really, if you include prostitutes you should have 1 in 5 I think.” “If 10% of Japanese are petty criminals and 1% serious felons, it’s hardly surprising to have 0.5% AV performers. And there are barely enough Koreans in Japan for anything but the vast majority of AV performers to be Japanese, idiots.” “At 0.5% it is nothing to get worked up about.” “It’s really worse than that. With Google, all of them are going to be preserved online for the rest of their lives, and beyond. There’s no way to avoid being found out now. What happens when they are wives and mothers…” “These trashy and baseless articles will be translated and published overseas as part of a plot to ruin the image of Japan!”