Cringe Cadaver :verified:
I sincerely await the day Japan's notoriously awful censorship laws on pornography finally get abolished.
Making it mandatory for genitalia to be censored in pornography with ADULTS in mind is like opening a bar with no alcoholic drinks whatsoever while still labeling it as adults only. I have always felt awful for the Japanese porn and hentai industry for this exact reason. It's not their fault their country's government is corrupt AF.
koi
@Essiecks it is not quite the same comparison when it comes to adult-only spaces. In the US for example, porn is sold in sex shops where anyone that looks remotely young and under 30 years old is carded upon entry. Staff must verify that they are adults in order for them to legally browse the store.
There is a lot of red tape in America when it comes to distributing explicit content and it is why we are now seeing states pass online age verification laws for porn sites.
koi
@Essiecks In Japan, you can find porn in a convenience store open to all ages. You can buy loli/shota material at a regular book store, just an aisle away from family friendly manga. No where in the west can you legally get away with selling loli/shota to the public.
The trade off for Japan’s censorship is that they have more avenues to freely sell NSFW. While the US touts uncensored freedom of expression, it puts restrictions on how we can distribute it (e.g. US banks influencing Fanbox ToS)
Cringe Cadaver :verified:
@satori Who else but Baraag's admin would be an expert on censorship. Not an insult btw, I genuinely respect you and what you've done for all of us by providing a space for freedom of expression!
Sharkjumper
@satori @Essiecks Don't Japan's censorship laws have their origins in rules the US forced on them ages ago?
Like before WWII even, around the time we forced them to open trade with us back in the 19th century?
koi
@Sharkjumper @Essiecks yes, the origin of Japanese censorship of porn is reflective of early western ideals but the rules stuck despite the US undergoing its own sexual revolution from the 60s through the 70s.
Today the climate around censored loli/shota remaining legal in Japan is seen more as a compromise with the rising feminist movement and particularly the Japanese minority Communist Party that has the “eradication of child pornographic art” as one of its political planks.
koi
@Essiecks @Sharkjumper https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qbnx/japan-child-pornography-manga-anime
(sorry for linking a Vice article)
Sharkjumper
@satori I mean it sounds like a different sort of compromise could be reached if say porn could be uncensored but loli/shota content couldn't be sold openly anymore.
Like the content itself wouldn't be illegal, just the selling of it in normal bookstores. It would be confined to specialty shops and certain websites.
It'd be something nobody would be truly happy with, but everyone could live with it.
koi
@Sharkjumper that would be a major blow to Japanese artists that make a living from selling loli/shota content. You would see a massive purge of products on fantia, DMM, DLsite, etc. The adult industry in Japan would be reeling from no longer being able to sell loli branded onaholes.
Sharkjumper
@satori Yeah, the job losses wouldn't be good.
Maybe they could change the rules so that the adult characters wouldn't need to be censored? Idk
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