Could porn replace pensions?

I don't know about you lot, but as things stand I don't have a monkey's of surviving on a pension when I retire. To be honest, given the way that things look at the moment I am not entirely sure that I'll even get a pension when I retire.

As far as I can tell, my only option is to keep working until my fingers are too arthritic to type and then to win the lottery before I run out of baked beans.

Or I could follow the example of 73-year-old Shigeo Tokuda and begin a second career as a porn star. Time reports that the Japanese market for elder porn has doubled in the past ten years; in that same time "mature women" has gone from meaning "in her late 20s" to "possibly even older than your gran". Tokuda himself, a former salaryman, plans to carry on until he's at least 80.

He doesn't, however, intend to tell his wife what he really does when he heads off to the office these days.

Picture credit: these little monkeys, who are almost certainly pensionless as well, are from floridapfe at flickr.