jmdict 2127410 Active (id#2321002)
熟女
じゅくじょ
  1. [n] [col]
    • (sexually) attractive older woman
    • mature woman
    • MILF
History:
    • A 2024-11-11 23:08:19 Stephen Kraus (id#2321002)
    • A* 2024-11-10 01:10:30 parfait8 (id#2320766)
    • Comments
      i agree that the discussion isn't going anywhere so this is going to be my last comment
      
      >Conjecture. Also it's only jpwiki that thinks this is 2 senses.
      
      none of the kokugos tag it as vulgar or even colloquial, i wouldn't say it's a conjecture based on nothing
      many of them don't even have 色気 in the definitions
      could they be incomplete? absolutely, but until we have more authoritative sources i'd say it's more of a conjecture to say it's inherently vulgar
      
      >The thumbs might not be as explicit as the results for MILF, but click through and the pages themselves are largely R-rated.
      >熟女 is used in pornographic or r18 contexts more than half of the time
      
      within the first 40 results of "milf" i see 15 porn images - as in actual nudity
      i see zero porn images on 熟女 results
      in fact there are even a couple of blog posts/news articles and a youtube video
      even the suggestive results show way less skin than the non-porn "milf" results
      clicking through the websites the majority are definitely not pornographic or r18
      "might not be as explicit" is an understatement
    • A 2024-11-09 23:51:04 Marcus Richert (id#2320753)
    • Comments
      *that "MILF" is acceptable as the third gloss.
    • A 2024-11-09 23:45:32 Marcus Richert (id#2320752)
    • Comments
      "- 熟女 results are overwhelmingly non-porn"
      
      This just isn't true. The thumbs might not be as explicit as the results for MILF, but click through and the pages themselves are largely R-rated. Some of the AI generated slop is not R-rated or even suggestive, but still seems designed to titillate.
      
      ""they're both used in vulgar and non-vulgar settings" seems a bit disingenuous"
      
      It is absolutely not disingenuous. You brought up the google image results as a convincing metric for the words being different, but using that metric, 熟女 is used in pornographic or r18 contexts more than half of the time, and in all the top results. 
      
      
      "熟女 was not even born as a vulgar term ...
      the porn usage was born later ..."
      Conjecture. Also it's only jpwiki that thinks this is 2 senses. Not even Wiktionary agrees.  https://ja.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/熟女
      The 2nd oldest real hit I get for 熟女と on NDL is in a collection of adult short stories from 1982. (there are even nude illustrations on this page)
      https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1784824/1/6?keyword=熟女と
      
      I don't find this discussion productive. There are differences in nuance, I agree, but they're close enough that 熟女 is acceptable as the third gloss. It would have been a poor first one.
    • A* 2024-11-09 22:16:56 parfait8 (id#2320747)
    • Comments
      >Are you perhaps outside of Japan? My search results show porn and AI-generated picture collections, most of them R18-tagged. The 11th result is the first non-porn/non-AI one: https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/158694
      I'm honestly seeing very similar results for both words.
      
      with a vpn set to japan and on a new incognito tab:
      - 熟女 results are overwhelmingly non-porn
      certainly they have a more suggestive character than e.g. 美人, but even scrolling a bit there's really not much porn
      - "milf" results are 70% porn and even the non-porn results are way more explicit than 熟女
      
      >Both 熟女 and MILF are used in vulgar and non-vulgar contexts, MILF probably more frequently in vulgar contexts than 熟女
      
      on a new incognito tab with vpn set to japan:
      the 2nd result i get searching "milf" is pornhub
      searching 熟女 and i can't see a porn website (or at least a well-known) in the first 5 pages
      "they're both used in vulgar and non-vulgar settings" seems a bit disingenuous, every word can technically be used in vulgar and non-vulgar settings
      the point is that "milf" is overwhelmingly used in porn settings and even when used colloquially it has much of the porn connotation
      熟女 was not even born as a vulgar term (again, none of the kokugos tag it as such and gg5 translates it rather euphemistically)
      the porn usage was born later (as mentioned before, the japanese wikipedia also has 2 senses to illustrate this)
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