I found myself in a comic book shop in Dupont Circle this last weekend and, being the pervert that I am, I ended up looking up AV Dan’yuu Hajimemashita / Diary of a Male Porn Star and then reading the whole thing on my phone over the next couple of days. To be fair, I […]
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