Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: japan.manga Subject: Re: Ridiculous censorship References: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:17:02 +0100 From: Paul Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-2022-jp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3869) Lines: 24 Organization: Pipex NNTP-Posting-Host: 81-178-247-69.dsl.pipex.com X-Trace: 1128608220 news.dial.pipex.com 25649 81.178.247.69:4741 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.manga:118 On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:40:00 +0200, FuzzyLogic wrote: > I've just started becoming interested in hentai, but, despite the great > artists who draw wonderful comics, I can't enjoy a single one because of > the stupid censorship bans and pixelations. Seeing as no one could give you a remotely decent response, I'll reply for them. The censorship is due to a very old obscenity law in Japan that states that male or female sexual organs or pubic hair may not be shown. This covers all sections of the Japanese media, and had had many knock on effects, such as the creation of the 'lolicon virus', which spawned from the Japanese manga writers trying to circumvent the obscenity law. This is due to the law stating that children's sexual organs etc may be show, so resulting in a general reduction in the average age of girls and boys in hentai and other anime. So for example, this is why in the Dragonball saga, Son Goku is allowed the parade around naked as a child, but never as an adult. I hope this answers your question. If you would like to look in to this subject in more depth, I highly reccomend Helen McCarthy's book 'The Erotic Anime Movie Guide', despite the so-so cover the writing is excellent and covers this and many other anime related subjects.