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."
Selected photos, women cited herein:
Copyright 2006 Mainichi Daily, used with permission
