Comment Re: Hentai, Japanese child porn (Score 1) 512
> So if a movie (with live actors) shows a woman being raped or a child (real child actor) being graphically killed, this is allowed because it is not harmful to children. But drawing pedophillic scenes involving people who never even existed is
somehow ok. I'm confused. Why is a ficticious portrayal of one crime againse a child acceptable to the public but not another, esp when the latter doesn't even involve children in any way?
Maybe because the way many Japanese artists render their characters, it's hard to tell wether they're children or adults? (See http://www.win.or.jp/~juan/index_E.html for an example.)
Or maybe because cartoons are just "uncool".
somehow ok. I'm confused. Why is a ficticious portrayal of one crime againse a child acceptable to the public but not another, esp when the latter doesn't even involve children in any way?
Maybe because the way many Japanese artists render their characters, it's hard to tell wether they're children or adults? (See http://www.win.or.jp/~juan/index_E.html for an example.)
Or maybe because cartoons are just "uncool".
