{"id":61479,"date":"2024-01-28T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/28\/its-not-an-oedipus-complex-why-japans-silver-porn-market-is-booming"},"modified":"2024-01-28T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:00:13","slug":"its-not-an-oedipus-complex-why-japans-silver-porn-market-is-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61479","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not an Oedipus complex\u2019: why Japan\u2019s \u2018silver porn\u2019 market is booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An industry making older women the centre of attention appeals to some actors; and as Japan\u2019s society ages, demand is growing<\/p>\n<p>Emi T\u014dda was in her late 50s, recently divorced and getting by on wages from part-time jobs at supermarkets and an undertaker when she decided it was time for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Now 65, she has appeared in dozens of adult movies catering to the \u201csilver porn\u201d market \u2013 a genre of films whose enduring popularity reflects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s status as a super-ageing society.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/28\/its-not-an-oedipus-complex-why-japans-silver-porn-market-is-booming\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An industry making older women the centre of attention appeals to some actors; and as Japan\u2019s society ages, demand is growingEmi T\u014dda was in her late 50s, recently divorced and getting by on wages from part-time jobs at supermarkets and an undertaker w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2474,41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61480,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61479\/revisions\/61480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}