Lolicon Lovers Luck Loses Out
Hm, maybe alliteration isn't my strong point...
If you're turned on by this picture, you could be affected
Connoisseurs of lolicon beware! Weekly Playboy magazine reports Japanese authorities are finally starting to crack down on the highly lucrative teen and child exploitation gravure business.
Although Japan has started implementing similar child pornography laws as most of Western society, the lack of enforcement in recent years have seen an explosion of materials targeted directly to men who like them young. Photo compilations of popular idols ranging from their late teens to preteens to as low as eight years old fly off the shelves as they're released to a teeming mass of fans hungry (horny?) for more photos of their favorite starlets. Reports suggest that over 3 million photo books sold from 2006 to 2007 alone (See Japan Times).
But this may soon be screeching to a halt. The police conducted a series of raids late last year on producers of a photo shoot DVD "starring" a schoolgirl that resulted in the maker of the DVD to be arrested for Child Pornography.
"The girl's swimsuit was deliberately made to be see-through, it was so tight-fitting you could make out the shape of her genitalia and she'd been posed in such risqu? positions that the Metropolitan Police Department decided to arrest the maker for breaking the law banning child pornography even though the girl hadn't actually exposed her bust or between her legs," a reporter from a sports newspaper tells Weekly Playboy.
This marks the first time in Japan history that an individual was arrested for breaking the Child Pornography law without proliferating images that featured nudity. Following further review, the charge has been dropped to a violation of the Child Welfare Law the effects have been far reaching in the gravure business.
"Ever since the arrest, makers of products featuring teens in erotic poses have been in a state of panic. If material is judged to be overly obscene, people can be arrested for breaking the Child Pornography Law, even if the model is dressed in a swimsuit," says an employee of a medium-sized DVD manufacturer producing material featuring models under 15 years old. "DVD shops and wholesalers are now on their guard and have stopped taking materials featuring models under 15, even if the product looks like being a surefire seller."
So what does this mean for the 2D lolicon industry? At the moment, nothing. Much like pre-2006 American law, drawn pornography depicting "young" models does not necessarily entail that it is child pornography. Though there has been limited action against lolicon manga, in general that is not touched. Still, it provides a worrying note to those who like them 2D and young.
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milkmandan:
NOo!
Damn it!
But strangely enough, America has similar things as well.
Depiction of young children, not necessarily naked, but suggestive poses with suggestive clothing.
Maybe not on film as much as Japan, but America has it's fair share.
Anonymous:
lol it's funny
Anonymous:
Whats really funny is that the U.S. is pressuring other countries to follow their rule. Are we dictators or something? I should say not, but we are trying to be by telling everyone else that they have to be like us. but whats most funny is that little girls in the U.S. want their parents to buy them spaghetti string tank tops and bikini swimsuits because they see their favorite adult stars wearing the same stuff..and their parents buy it for them and let them wear it. So what if their young and naive, that doesn't mean that they should dress so...whats the proper word...sexy? Think about it. If we're so worried about other countries child protection laws, I think we need to re-examine our own. ie. not allowing any short skirts, spaghetti string tank tops, tube tops, etc. for children. Fix our own damn problems first, before we attempt to dictate other countries to/or how to fix theirs. >:(
Anonymous Joe:
To the second anonymous guy, the U.S. is not trying to pressure any country to do anything. The only America has a problem with is when that trash comes over here so shut the heck up.
Anonymous:
^ I second that.
GarbledOne:
To tell you guys the truth, the US _IS_ pressuring other countries to do a lot of things, which is mainly backing US interests. In terms of child pornography, there is a large western push to ban it in Asian countries. The justification is that child pornography from the various countries in which it is legal (or at least unenforced) finds its way onto the the internet and pollutes our country.
Is that right? Probably not. Each sovereign nation should have the right to police their countries as they see fit. The first Anonymous poster is correct in saying that we should fix our own problems before going on any moral crusades, however without radically changing our pop culture that would be impossible. Can you imagine a military state where all forms of suggestive clothing are illegal?
Anonymous:
To the Anonymous guy 3, you're totally right! I agree with you completely; I understand that the US wants to try and change the world in a positive way, but i disagree with their methods. Why should they try to MAKE the change happen, if for certain countries, their customs, are their customs? The same happens with people; you can't make a person like what you like, it's only natural.
mil_E_tar_Otaku:
This matter is nothing new. it has been going on for quite a long time. and I agree that the US is trying to 'make everyone dance to the same song'. what is basically going on is that the US (with all due respect) is trying to make its culture the only one if not the most dominant.
Anonymous:
@ milkmandan
"But strangely enough, America has similar things as well.
Depiction of young children, not necessarily naked, but suggestive poses with suggestive clothing."
However, this is classified as teen/preteen modeling in art form. Which is actually a protected right in America. Until this law is changed then it will be delt with. Otherwise it is entirely legal to display those under 18 in this way ...
Part of this encasing law is >
USC Title 18-I, Ch. 110, §2257 & §2256.
Anonymous:
And on further note. And to no offense to the previous posters, but they do lack actual informative knowledge. Rather what is spewed is uninformed gossip. Please before anyone does this, read a bit more. For one Japans stance of this matter is HARSHER than U.S. laws on the same issue. Read the above laws just for a short understanding of this ...
Christopher:
Better yet: the world could realize that pedosexuality is a NORMAL sexuality just like homosexuality and heterosexuality outside of marriage, and stop trying to act like it 'harms' children to be doinked.
To be blunt, the ONLY children I have seen with harm from being doinked by an adult: those who have had police contact or those who have had contact with a psychologist who BRAINWASHED them into thinking that sex was 'bad' and 'wrong', or who brainwashed them into thinking they didn't enjoy sexual encounter that they did enjoy or were, at most, neutral about (not enjoying or not enjoying them).
Anonymous:
All in all i bleave lolicon wont hurt any one as long thay dont fallow with the real thing iv had to shut down 30+ child porn sites last year. The main problem is the moment we loose
lolicon is the first step to not having any rights.
Anti-Evil:
This argument will sadly go on forever for the sad fact of too many problems. The world is full of it no matter what you may think The U.S. is an oasis conpared to most countrys that have worise problems than this. If you think not go look at Isreal and say that.
See this is a morill issue, the problom is'nt that someone thinks they can get away with it, its the fact that timtations there.
Every one "wants" a young, good looking, smart, rich and great in bed kind of person when nature didn't set us up for that. We ALL (no mater were your from) are made to servive and procreate. Sex was never intended as "fun" as some people put it but as a means to make a baby. When the world became "sivalized" (yeah right) sex became a form of "sin" then spawned to pass time in less that 50 year in the U.S. In the hole world we have an untold number of ways to "get off" like s&m, lesbian, animamated and even pain, some people enjoy pain.
Lolita is sadly another form of this drug that natural to ower body that efect the brain and bring emotions out that becomes adictive over time.
Im sadened that I live in a world that gets it kicks from a over used natual drug like lust. I'v got my work cut out for me...
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