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relyat08
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I'm pretty sure he's referencing digital stuff. I'm sure you could visit any hentai website(legal or not) just fine from within Canada. |
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shawnek
Accredited Retailer
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residentgrigo
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All sorts of EU (or Japanese) comics with graphic teen sex scenes came out untouched in the US, as Blue is the Warmest Color (the comic is much better than the film) and i have seen nude teens in Avatar and Image comics, so it can´t be a legal formality. Enough examples of premium tv shows and film with adult actresses playing teens have nude scenes too, especially in the 80s, but Ice and Fire aged up all the kids when HBO turned it into GoT. A wise decision, i´ll tell you that much.
I wonder if Debbie Does Dallas would now need to be a college girl, if the porn industry remade it... again. I am also fairly certain that Michael Corleone´s teen bride in The Godfather was 17 when she filmed her topless scene and American Beauty sits in the same boat. Both won Oscars galore. |
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CatSword
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I think it depends on the context. An artistic/literary defense for teen nude/sex scenes in things like A Girl on the Shore and Blue is the Warmest Color keep them from violating obscenity laws (at least in the US). A hentai with underage characters is much more likely to be accused of violating obscenity laws, as it is a pornographic work presenting underage characters with the intention of making them sexually desirable to the audience. |
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Spike Terra
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A popular form of censoring that I have noticed over the years is in non-localized hentai where they write the age as "1X". Which in my mind implies the character can be anywhere between 10 and 19.I'm actually all for age obfuscation in hentai as it might help some viewers cope with the youthful appearances of the characters participating in the act... Okay that's a lie, I just find it funny that it's all you need to allow ecchi stuff to be allowed in the market place.
One of the more paradoxical uses of age obfuscation was in the Atelier games in which characters like Totori were bumped up from age 13 to age 14 or bumping up Rorona's age 14 to 17. By the time, they got to the third game in story, they just kept the ages of the characters in line with the Japanese versions of the games. Long story short, the changes made to these games confused me because they didn't serve much of a purpose. |
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DanQ
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Well, this game was my first encounter with this "legal age optimalisation" phenomenon, one couldn't easily forget it  . (Yes, it was probably first eroge i played, still got original CD (and JAST USA Memorial collection) ~_^).
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leafy sea dragon
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Gravity Falls gets away with a LOT of humor the typical Disney  viewer wouldn't understand. It's weird that animated programming on Disney gets way more lenient standards than the live-action stuff (out of proportion with any other network's programming). "Soos and the Real Girl" is still one of my favorite episodes of the series because it was written by someone who knew dating sim tropes surprisingly well.
Sounds like the opposite of Zakuro from Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan. I suppose since you put it in a spoiler tag, I'll put it in some too, though it's not a spoiler in the series itself: If I recall correctly, spoiler[Zakuro is 8 years old but looks like a fully grown young woman, and she was deliberately put in by the writers to mess with the whole underage fetishization common in Japanese media. That is, a male viewer with normal sexual attraction to adult women is supposed to find Zakuro attractive, but she's actually elementary school age.] It wound up being an interesting thought experiment, at least in my opinion. |
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Stuart Smith
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Adults playing high school kids to get around sexualizing minors has always been a thing in American media. Aging up as well, such as Juliet originally being 13 in Shakespere's original play. I view it as more of a cop out than risque, however. -Stuart Smith |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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I thought every girl in anime was secretly a 10,000 year old vampire... problem solved.
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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More posts are gone. I already asked everyone once to ignore obvious bait posts and simply report them. Next time a mod has to come in the thread will simply be locked. As for you Exalted Incarnate I specifically said drop the bait style soap boxing and move on. You ignored that and proceeded to stir the pot a 2nd time. If you try it a third time you will be placed on moderation.
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yuna49
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Mina Tepes will have you know she is well under five hundred! |
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