impossible when a 15 or 16 years old is draw and looks the same as a 25 or 30 years old character.
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Damn they really did just let a child rapist go because he asked enoughSame country that did this lol
George Pell: Australian cardinal released from jail after high court quashes child sexual abuse convictions
Pell freed from jail after the high court’s decision that his appeal should be upheldwww.theguardian.com
Wouldn't this also encompass a lot of older manga and anime in general? A lot of stuff from the 70s and 80s had random nudity, often involving teens. I mean, look at Ranma 1/2. The main cast are all in high school, and the first storyline has multiple scenes involving female Ranma and Akane nude. So did the anime. Wouldn't that fall under this law? Certainly is going to be a lot of Go Nagai and Tezuka stuff getting banned.
Banning all of anything is usually a retro, backwards take on any issue.
That said the hentai pipeline sure seems filled with a lot of depictions of high schoolers and children. In anime that's generally okay. But it seems like a lot of hentai features characters in proportionally the same age ranges as most anime: 16 and younger. Or, childlike in appearance (1,000 year old dragons). Barely legal at the oldest.
That industry should consider a proper scrubbing and better self-policing so that nations don't feel like they need to do it for them.
That said the hentai pipeline sure seems filled with a lot of depictions of high schoolers and children. In anime that's generally okay. But it seems like a lot of hentai features characters in proportionally the same age ranges as most anime: 16 and younger. Or, childlike in appearance (1,000 year old dragons). Barely legal at the oldest.
That industry should consider a proper scrubbing and better self-policing so that nations don't feel like they need to do it for them.
Sword art online is currently banned in Australia so yea
Wow, really? Well, may as well kiss the entire anime and manga industry goodbye in Australia, then.
wait a second
WOULD EVANGELION BE BANNED????
Australia has just enraged the eternal fury of the worlds most impotent fandom.
WOULD EVANGELION BE BANNED????
Australia has just enraged the eternal fury of the worlds most impotent fandom.
Fucking lost it at Asuka's birthplace.
Thank you for sharing this gem, holy shit.
It's just not fair, how am I supposed to get off if I can't read the doujinshi about a short haired sporty high-school track-star who has a sexual awakening and starts domming her pretty-boy classmate before coming to the realization that she's actually bisexual so she 'ropes' in her best friend, the shy bookish nerdy girl who's been lusting after her best friend for years but has been too afraid to act on her feelings for fear of being rejected.
How Australia...HOW?!
How Australia...HOW?!
God damn I didn't realize how many people here like cartoon porn, big yikes for me.
They should have banned this stuff a long ass time ago.
They should have banned this stuff a long ass time ago.
Maybe so, but they're banning all hentai because of a certain subset of it. They're already sliding down the slippery slope, it's not just hypothetical.
Or, another way of putting it: They're using a slippery slope fallacy to justify the ban.
I don't know about furry stuff, but BDSM art/porn has always been a whipping boy for moral campaigners. Sex, violence, degradation? Why would a "reasonable adult" enjoy something like that? Society must be protected from that sick filth!
What a boomer mentality. The Era boomers are coming out again just like the TikTok ban.
"Ban everything of this genre instead of the problematic part because I don't like it!!!"
it would and there are people here who will tell you it should be too. *shrug*
Soon
In the dystopian future of 2030, the Australian government is cracking down on any perceived immoral activity from using risqué language to distributing lewd materials in the country, to the point where all citizens are forced to wear high-tech devices called Peace Makers (PM) at all times that analyze every spoken word and hand motions for any action that could break the law.
In the dystopian future of 2030, the Australian government is cracking down on any perceived immoral activity from using risqué language to distributing lewd materials in the country, to the point where all citizens are forced to wear high-tech devices called Peace Makers (PM) at all times that analyze every spoken word and hand motions for any action that could break the law.
I am gonna be honest all of these hot takes saying "Good" and "nothing of value was lost" come off as more then just boomer takes but being massively uninformed as well (since it bans a whole lot more then just hentai) and it also comes off as a wee bit on the diet racist side with trying attack and sweep all of Japanese hentai into being lolicon stuff.
Drawn porn is always going to exist, and functionally isn't any different from live action porn. It always comes down to an issue of interpretation beyond obvious tells of underage characters, and it's never going to be easy to enforce or moderate the content that comes up. The clause in this ban enabling the Australian government to interpret inappropriate smut freely at their discretion makes me think they buried the lede and hentai is just the convenient target that their supporters will flock to.
Wait regular Japanese porn and sex toys are not allowed either? I'm not sure if I read that article right. Are locally made sex toys still legal, and only Japanese items are banned? Are Japanese women/men allowed to create porn in Australia or are they banned too?
You say that as if a mass amount of porn isn't centered around a wide range of morally unethical or illegal shit, that only gets by because it's "simulated" or because the actors are just barely 18.
people have been drawing sex since the first nut was busted and youre shocked people watch cartoon porn?
how out of touch are you lmfao
The TikTok ban thread immediately came to mind when I saw some of the responses here.
I don't think any kind of regulation is going to be really effective unless it happens in Japan itself. I don't know if/when that's going to happen because last I heard there were entire political parties in Japan devoted to keeping it all legal. However they do it they need to draw some kind of line.
Yeah, I gotta say I'm a little surprised at some of the takes here. In my opinion, real life "this teen is barely legal" stuff seems WAY more harmful and damaging than drawn hentai consisting of only adults.
It's interesting that a place where every living creature is designed to kill you is so terrified of basically every else.
Wow....people really find it hard to understand people can like that sort
I hear they have Super Hentai in Australia.
Can't wait for next year's article:
Australia Bans All Pornography
And then the year after that:
All Sex Outlawed
Australia Bans All Pornography
And then the year after that:
All Sex Outlawed
