Komuro, fortunately, always enjoyed writing, and is realizing
an increasingly large percentage of her income from her
efforts. Initially her acting colleague Luna Hoshizaki had
turned to writing and provided Komuro with introductions. In
addition to pieces serialized in magazines, she also does
interviews with women who work in the sex trade, as well as
providing advice to people with sex problems.
"Most of what I do has some sort of connection with
eroticism," she tells the magazine. "I've always had
a strong sexual awareness, even as a kid. When I was in
kindergarten, I invited a neighbor's son to fondle my breasts.
And I once, before I knew better, told a university student in
the neighborhood to "give me a blow job [sic]" and
he licked me down there. Today, that would be treated as a
crime."
Now age 30 and retired from film making, Ms. Komuro
nonetheless says she desires sex more than ever.
"I'm finally at the stage where I can really enjoy
sex," she confesses. "I never had an orgasm during a
film shooting. Except when somebody worked on me with a
vibrator."
Well-endowed, leggy Ruka Aida was famous for intense sex
scenes and gained a reputation for insisting her male
counterparts never use condoms. After a stint working as a
masseuse-cum-hooker in a Yoshiwara "soapland," in
June 2004 she opened her own bar, called "Ruka," in
Tokyo's Roppongi district.
The choice of profession should not be too surprising: Ms.
Aida had always had a liking for strong drink, and during her
acting days would often sip sake at "host clubs,"
where she dropped as much as 3 million yen in the course of a
single evening.
"When I was working as a masseuse, I'd go from
Japanese rice wine to champagne to shochu and then brandy.
Couldn't remember a thing the next morning, but then I'd look
at the bar tab -- woo! I had no sense of how to hang on to
money."
"I never liked the feeling of condoms," Aida, now
37, tells Asahi Geino, recalling her AV career. "Even
when performers were required to use them due to concerns over
AIDS, I'd refuse. Same goes for my private life. But these
days, I haven't been doing much sex, maybe only once a
week," she confides. "I guess I blew off most of my
steam when I was young. These days when my boyfriend asks me
for sex, I just give him a hand job."
Among the other "retired" AV performers Asahi
Geino tracked down for this story were Nao Saejima (now 37 and
working as an artist); Sally Yoshino (27, a striptease
dancer); Misato Sugihara (a pro wrestling "diva");
and the busty (90cm) Hitomi Hasegawa, star of the 2001
production "Shojogu" (virgins' palace), but now a
self-described "erotic missionary" who plans and
appears in "sexy events." (By Masuo Kamiyama,
People's Pick contributor)
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