Phileas And “Fur Burger”: Navigating Minami Ilao

As her Japanese interlocutor sticks various marital aids in and around her verdant vulv, Minami Ilao is best described as pensive. Still, it is the age of exploration in "Japanese Fur Burgers 3."

This is an all-Japanese DVD that is poorly but intriguingly subtitled for English readers. Ilao appears shy at first, and concerned upon disrobing, but her squeals seem real if not lusty, and more awkward than alarmed.

So it's not an East-meets-West dynamic we're dealing with, though we're definitely watching American-style porn performed by unsure Japanese participants. Japanese participants who probably don't know the meaning of "fur burger" in the same way that 90 percent of the cast of the "WKRP in Cincinnati" porn parody hadn't seen the original.

But, like Phileas Fogg in "Around the World in 80 Days," Ilao is game. She knows the world is changing, and that her natural and abundant pubes are considered exotic by some.

Ilao seems much more assured when she is administering a blowjob (and it is now her partner who seems timid), but one thing is certain: when one has lots of pubic hair, everything is as mysterious as the Orient.

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