SOD: Hotaru Akane Risa Coda Sasa Handa Saori Hara Hikari Hino Rinako Hirasawa Asuka Hoshino Naoko Imokawa Kaho Kasumi Risa Kasumi Mariko Kawana Iori Kogawa Kotono Hiromi Matsuura Miyu Misaki Tsugumi Nagasawa Nana Natsume Nao Oikawa Yuka Osawa Mana Sakura Yuko Sakurai Sarah Yuu Shiraishi Asami Sugiura Yui Takagi Tsubomi Hime Tsukino Kaoruko Wakaba Akira Watase Rico Yamaguchi Sally Yoshino Aimi Yoshikawa Series Important thematic series at SOD include: Eighteen Idol Semen () Masturbation Aid () Naked Continent () Super High-Class Soap Lady () STOP! STD For the past several years, SOD has run a campaign to bring attention to the rise of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in Japan and to increase the use of condoms. The program, called STOP! STD, has used former SOD star Nana Natsume as a spokeswoman. SOD AV Awards and the AV Open From 2002 to 2006, the company held the SOD AV Awards, an annual ceremony to present a series of awards to honor actresses, directors, and staff of companies in the SOD group. In 2006, the company also sponsored, along with Tokyo Sports, a wider award contest called the AV Open. Sixteen companies competed for a total prize pool of 25 Million yen with the winner being decided by sales of the videos entered in the contest. In the second year of the AV Open competition, 19 companies participated and the SOD entry won by a large margin. But it was subsequently discovered that SOD had used company funds to buy thousands of their own videos. SOD was disqualified and the discredited AV Open was replaced the next year by the Hokuto Corporation sponsored AV Grand Prix. Content Soft Association The Japanese AV industry has several different "ethics groups", which are voluntary organizations to assure adherence with Japanese pornography laws and to regulate content and copyrights. The earliest of these organizations was founded by the major AV companies in 1972 and is known as the Nihon Ethics of Video Association (NEVA). In response, SOD in 1996 began its own regulatory group known as the . Medirin was composed of "indie" companies, independent AV studios which explored porn themes forbidden by NEVA rules and which used a smaller-pixeled censorship mosaic for their videos. Medirin was re-organized in 2005 to form the to review and regulate adult videos and adult game software. The CSA had more than 65 members among AV producers comprising most of