I don't have a link to the story, as it happened several months ago, but a man was arrested for downloading images -- specifically, artwork done in an "anime" style -- of underage girls. A rare case, but it shows that it's not quite a safe work-around.

This could be a bad assumption, but I have a strong feeling you're referring to Card Captor Sakura.  From what I've been told, there is a lot of lesbian and homosexual innuendo in that anime to begin with.


Add me to your list I guess...


I watch both.

Here's why I like hentai more...

There are no STD's in hentai.
There is no pregnancy in hentai. (Unless you like hentai depicting pregnant women)
Everyone looks ideal.
Everyone achieves an orgasm at the same time.
Things happen in hentai that could not happen in real life currently.  (Sex with aliens, sex with anthropomorphic creatures, etc.)
Odd fetishes can be fully explored and sexual frustration can be vented (Vore (the eating of people), guro (death and mutilation,) rape, water sports and defecation, she-males, transexuals, futanari, beastility, furry, hairy, diapers, spanking, loli (under-age and child-like characters,) and shota (sex between adults and children.)
I don't have to treat real women as a masturbatory aid.

The list goes on...

Basically, I like hentai because it is an excellent way to reduce the stress in my life.  I treat it the exact same way I treat videogames whether they be of questionable content or not.


Hey, it's understandable.  It can be a bit too easy to stumble upon pornography on the internet.  I will not tolerate being called a pedophile though.


I am not a pedophile, and I do enjoy hentai that depicts under-age children.  I am especially fond of hentai that depicts older women having sex with under-age boys as that was always a fantasy of mine growing up.

It is disgusting that pedophiles exist, but I feel that a great deal of hentai depicting under-aged characters exists for entirely different reasons.  Oftentimes, such hentai exists simply because the artists were fans of the source material or fans of the character themselves.  What if's and sexual parodies and such... Why the hell would somebody create pornographic images of Rugrats and Hamtaro?  I have no damn clue.  Probably for the same reason people sing about incest and rape or why games like Grand Theft Auto are made...

It may not be right, but I certainly feel that it is not wrong.  There are probably couples out there who fantasize about what it would have been like to have sex when they were younger, kids who want to fantasize about people their own age, under-age girls who want to have sex with an older man... What kind of outlet is there for such fantasies? Hentai is the only one I can think of.  (Besides dressing up in rediculous costumes of course...)


If you truly feel that way, then my little speal (sp?) won't change your mind of course, but I am not a pedophile.  Worthless?  Perhaps, but I have zero interest in sleeping with children.


If they were digitally-altered photos of real under-age girls, and he was a pedophile, then let the bastard burn.  If they were simply drawings, and he was a pedophile, then let the bastard burn.  If they were not, and they were simply drawings, and the man was truly not a pedophile, then I think the accusers should burn.

Ugh, you have to try to muddy the water don't you?  I like you, Kain, but this is something I'll not be able to understand.  I don't really care to try either.

Which, in the real world, is landing teachers in jail right now.  I know it can be argued that blowing someone away in a video game is simulated murder, but I can't really see the similarity between offing zombies and watching the corruption of youth in animated form.  I still can't sanction that.

I'll take your word on that, but I would think making hentai about anything and everything under the sun (and some things that aren't) seems a bit... perverted?  I can understand if someone has an attraction toward a specific character, but I don't see why someone would want to turn every animated thing they're a fan of into a sex orgie except that they have a severe hormone imbalance.  Remember, I don't approve of sexual promiscuity in general, and I'm diametrically opposed to the culture that's spawned the rampant promiscuity and debauchery that exists today and is accepted as "normal", so my feelings will be heavily biased here.

Because they can?  I don't like games like Grand Theft Auto either.  I despise Rockstar because it seems they can't make anything that's not "in the gutter" as far as sex and violence goes.  I invoke personal standards here, no apoligy for it either.  It may be legal, but I don't have to like it nor buy it.

Just for clarification, my thoughts for that specific instance were directed at the people who make the stuff.

I doubt I'll ever understand how someone can like hentai involving children and not be a pedophile at the same time, but if you say you have no interest in pedophilia I've not known you to be dishonest so I'll accept your word.  I doubt you'll find much understanding of your apetites among other people who do not share them, though I must admit, you have quite a bit of courage to express your inner thoughts on this in a public forum as such.  I can admire that at least.[/color]

Seriously, you are like some kind of crazy ghost Deth. You just show up every now and then, and talk to somebody, but none of their friends will believe them about it.

My view? (not that anyones asking, mind) if you don't hurt anyone, do as you like. (but does that include hurting yourself?)

People are burning down embassies over a bunch of cartoons - why would you worry about Hentai, of all things? I know it's not necessarily relevant, but it's just such a hipster thing to make a fuss about forms of 'art' these days. Some people make pictures of women getting 'roasted' like they're pigs. The women in question seem to enjoy it, and presumably there are people out there who like watching the pictures. Hentai is even easier, since it doesn't involve live subjects.
People are weird - let them have their little fantasies and quirks. The only alternative is a collective comatose state, or a huge outbreak of human blow-outs, this time where it matters.

Er... Um...

 

Or something...  

Furry art, or furry hentai?