As unbelievable as it may be, those 70 actors “take care” of the 10,000 women in the Japanese AV industry. Or, to put it another way, if there are 4,500 films produced a month, that means that about 150 are made a day—so one actor is making around two pornographic films a day, at least according to The “Male AV Actor” Occupation.

That’s got to be exhausting! But on the other hand, if you assume a pay out of about 50,000 yen (US$506) per film, these studs, in every sense of the word, are making 100,000 yen ($1,012) a day. They’re at the same level, physically and financially, as some professional athletes!

But our AV stars face an altogether different predicament: the emotional impact of performing so many insanely intimate acts with veritable strangers.

When asked if they felt like they understood women, the 19 men interviewed for the book all expressed a similar sentiment of either not trusting or not understanding women in the slightest. One actor even said, “It’s because I don’t understand women that I can do this job. I think the more I do it, the less I understand them.”