Japan actually does have a huge problem with the sexualization of children. Teenage school girls dating older men for money is a thing over there. Manga, anime, and video games also sexualize young girls. Some of the models and artwork look like women, but the creators insist on giving them ages like 15. Dragon Ball, Dead or Alive, and others do stuff like this. Kasumi has been 15 forever and it doesn't do anything for the story.
Some manga artists are also drawn to this culture because they are part of it. The author of Toriko did some time from what I recall.
Read GTO, Initial D, and some others. Also watch crime J-Dramas. It is a big part of the culture over there. The reason why there are teen schoolgirl idols is because there is an actual market for them stemming from that culture.
Japan actually does have a huge problem with the sexualization of children.
Children or teens? Lolicon is still a derogatory term among the general population.
Kasumi has been 15 forever and it doesn't do anything for the story
Everyone in DOA is minimum 18 ever since Dimensions ran into release issues.
Read GTO, Initial D, and some others. Also watch crime J-Dramas. It is a big part of the culture over there.
The US used to have tons of movies with nudity in high school settings. One of Johnny Depp's first breakout roles had him giving drugs to his friend to get a prudish girl horny enough to sleep with.
For all this, Japan still has a very low incidence of rape and nowhere near the levels of human trafficking we have in the US.
Even American Pie had "high school" nudity. I don't think anyone went out and raped girls because of these movies. His attitude is how you start getting moral censorship based on spurious claims with no data.
Both, and being derogatory doesn't necessarily mean it's not accepted to some extent.
Kasumi being under 18 is a real issue. The game was directed with this in mind. Subsequent games didn't change anything until problems with localization, i.e. clashing with other cultures and laws.
The US still does that and also treats college like a never-ending frat party, but that's not what this is about.
Japan is mostly homogenous, is a small country, and doesn't deal with "migrants" and blackmail trading as much as the US. Human trafficking and the kind of rape we have here are very different because we are very different countries in many ways.
My point is that I would be more concerned if the culture was borne out in the statistics.
We all know Muslims have a very conservative culture but have actual rape issues involving women and children. I'm not going to act like I know what causes harm without evidence first.
The Muslim "conservative culture" has the rape issues ingrained in it. The evidence there is the religion and the culture itself. You keep bringing up unrelated issues.
Japan actually does have a huge problem with the sexualization of children. Teenage school girls dating older men for money is a thing over there. Manga, anime, and video games also sexualize young girls. Some of the models and artwork look like women, but the creators insist on giving them ages like 15. Dragon Ball, Dead or Alive, and others do stuff like this. Kasumi has been 15 forever and it doesn't do anything for the story.
Some manga artists are also drawn to this culture because they are part of it. The author of Toriko did some time from what I recall.
Read GTO, Initial D, and some others. Also watch crime J-Dramas. It is a big part of the culture over there. The reason why there are teen schoolgirl idols is because there is an actual market for them stemming from that culture.
Children or teens? Lolicon is still a derogatory term among the general population.
Everyone in DOA is minimum 18 ever since Dimensions ran into release issues.
The US used to have tons of movies with nudity in high school settings. One of Johnny Depp's first breakout roles had him giving drugs to his friend to get a prudish girl horny enough to sleep with.
For all this, Japan still has a very low incidence of rape and nowhere near the levels of human trafficking we have in the US.
Ahhh yes the old 80s and 70s classic R movies. Porky's was a funny one that still gives me laughs to this day.
Even American Pie had "high school" nudity. I don't think anyone went out and raped girls because of these movies. His attitude is how you start getting moral censorship based on spurious claims with no data.
Both, and being derogatory doesn't necessarily mean it's not accepted to some extent.
Kasumi being under 18 is a real issue. The game was directed with this in mind. Subsequent games didn't change anything until problems with localization, i.e. clashing with other cultures and laws.
The US still does that and also treats college like a never-ending frat party, but that's not what this is about.
Japan is mostly homogenous, is a small country, and doesn't deal with "migrants" and blackmail trading as much as the US. Human trafficking and the kind of rape we have here are very different because we are very different countries in many ways.
My point is that I would be more concerned if the culture was borne out in the statistics.
We all know Muslims have a very conservative culture but have actual rape issues involving women and children. I'm not going to act like I know what causes harm without evidence first.
The Muslim "conservative culture" has the rape issues ingrained in it. The evidence there is the religion and the culture itself. You keep bringing up unrelated issues.