@ Milofo

No shit, right? It was a real mind-job on me seeing bikers with spikes on their head and wrist (but on a scooter!) pulling into 7-11s and AM/PMs to stand around reading all the little pink books on the shelf like it was no thing—books that were, inevitably, about someone being raped but in the end enjoying it.

I'm against laws like this but it doesn't mean I don't think the content they're aiming to get rid of is absolutely retarded. There's no way to enforce good writing and realistic scenarios, unfortunately, so these stupid fantasies where all the characters act and react in completely unrealistic ways run rampant. I blame the authors, the illustrators, and the consumers, and no law will get rid of those people. To me, it's more an issue of bad taste and simple-mindedness than anything else.

I'd actually like for someone to make a realistic version of many of these types of situations and push their well-written, well-drawn work forward as an artistic protest of sorts on idiots. It would horrify people all but the sickest of people, and at least make a clear statement that it is stupid to get into all that crap. I'm tired of everyone giving "fan service" and non-sensical sexual situations the thumbs up instead of calling it immature. It's ridiculous.

But there is no cure—people are people, and this is what they like, and this is what they produce. All we can do is disagree and do our best to keep anything bad from happening to real kids (and animals, and other innocents who can't be expected to know better or fend for themselves). Some good artistic protest, as aforesaid, would at least give people not into all that stupid bullshit something to rally behind.

I guess what bothers me is how accepted some of this shit is. People don't care so long as it's not taboo . . . they're opinions are filtered through social norms, and they're not going to feel strongly about something (outwardly, anyway) unless they have the support of all their peers. Don't believe me? What if they changed the aged of majority here to 16 instead of 18? Suddenly it wouldn't be "sick" to think a 16-year-old is hot and fuckable. Eventually it would be sick to think a 15-year-old is, but not a 16-year-old.

And you know what? Lots of 16-year-olds are hot and fuckable. I'm 21, so how much do you think my sexual preferences have changed in four years? It doesn't mean I'm going to get involved with or screw a 16-year-old, but I'll admit they can be hot. A lot of people won't. They're only going to express themselves in an accepted way.

And I think, weirdly enough, that that is why people don't outwardly frown about this cartoon child-rape type shit, because it is widely accepted, and it's not until it becomes illegal and whatnot that people will be more vocal about their opinion on it. If that makes any sense? If you've never spent time enough in Japan, you might not get it as a lot of us foreigners do think Japan is perverted . . .