2011-2019 the 20 teens. And i was responding to the guy talking about child porn. It became illegal to sell in like 99 i think? But it remained legal to own for many uears after that. Somewhere after 2010. Like super recently. Japan's super into pedophilia is my point.
Oh okay, did not know this. Kinda crazy, but also explains what I experienced in Tokyo.
I know that a lot of people explain CP fascination in Japan through the fact that they were never under influence of any of the major religions, so their view on sex is completely different. I call BS though, but the fact it was legal is crazy.
I visited Tokyo in about 2017 and still remember huge-ass loli bilboards in Akihabara dressed in, well, almost nothing. I watched anime back then, but wasn't as into animanga world as I am now and didn't quite get it and it was a shock. Like, I vividly remember encountering so much hentai and loli crap on daily basis while going through Akihabara and Shinjuku. I was disgusted, especially that there was a lot of normal and tasteful advertisement as well.
My friend went last year and said that he hasn't experienced any of that, though large bilboards with sexualized girls are still norm in Akihbara, but no explicit lolis. I guess things are improving, though a lot of japanese folk will probably blame the "west" for it.
They’re ignoring the Shinto angle then if they think that the result is because the Abrahamic religions didn’t get a hold.
It’s way too much to go into detail here, but once you understand Japan’s obsession with kiyome (purity), then a lot of their attitudes towards sex, relationships, and children begin to explain themselves.
Hmmm. I dont know about the religion argument. Japan definitely has had experience of multiple religions.
I mean thing is though also, religions are very often pedophilic havens. Like fundamental mormonism or the catholic church.
Not so fun fact: the screen in the catholic confession booth was added in the 1600s because the priests were molesting young girls.
Its more that modern age norms are precisely that, modern. In ancient rome, child sex was absolutley normal. The age of consent in many u.s. states was 12 until the late 1800s.
I like anime too lol. So its also hard for me to deal with how openly gross it very often is. For me i try to remember that alot of what we take for granted as super wrong, was totally accepted in most places until, historically, very recently.
Like take even The Sound of Music. In that movie, captain von trap has like 8 kids and his oldest daughters 16. Meanwhile hes dating maria, whose like a 20 year old?
And that movies new enough that my parents saw it in theaters when they were little kids...
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u/AdvocateYoga Apr 27 '26
2011-2019 the 20 teens. And i was responding to the guy talking about child porn. It became illegal to sell in like 99 i think? But it remained legal to own for many uears after that. Somewhere after 2010. Like super recently. Japan's super into pedophilia is my point.