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NEWS: Sweden's Supreme Court Holds Trial for Translator's Child Pornography Charges

Banken wrote:

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote: Fletcher1991 wrote: He's still a weirdo for looking at lolicon hentai porn, and maybe he should go see a psychiatrist, but I don't think he should be convicted for criminal charges unless he actually committed an act against a child. I don't really see why since the legal age of consent in Sweden in 15 and most people think lolis are this age >_> http://www.ageofconsent.com/sweden.htm It's 16 in Japan and most of America (including the military), but that doesn't mean you won't get fired/ostracized for 'dating' a 16 year-old.

Something that would have been legal throughout history just about anywheres, think of 40 year old kings marrying 15 year old princesses. Nowadays 18yos can get sent down for shagging 15 year olds, but fags can get married so we have 'sexual freedom' lolololol.

But anyway isn't a true loli aged under 13 (Japan's age of consent) anyway?

Courtesy of Kentaro Miura (author of Berserk).

http://i.imgur.com/WAUQk.jpg

Wow, look at Canada.

Ok, I'm very curious as to what that is about, but not being able to read Japanese I can't really tell. Looks interesting though.

Guess the reporter had read too much Takao Saeki.

Among which I would have to number Mr. Jonathan Clements, apparently. I'm very curious though... Is there any particular reason why you choose to quote his definition of "grooming", among all others... he being a biographer of Confucius and anime and Japanese Dorama encyclopedist... as if his is any kind of authoritative word on the subject? As far as I can tell, his apprehensions about presumed "pedophiles" (hentai manga consumers) enticing children with it is no more informed or persuasive than the religious right and the anti-sex feminists' apprehensions were about Playboy.

"You do realize," I began hesitantly, "and I did tell you on the phone, that manga is not just porn. It is kids' stories, and adventures, and thrillers, romance and drama, science fiction and detective stories-" But she cut me off with an upraised hand.
"By the way," she said, just as the light went from happy green to ON-AIR red, "we've had to drop a few of the questions. It was kind of boring. Instead we're going to talk about changes in Japanese porn legislation."
And with that, I was in the line of fire. Lured on-air to talk about the Japanese comics that I love, and, once more, forced to become a spokesman for and defender of an entire nation's erotica.

Ok, I'm very curious as to what that is about, but not being able to read Japanese I can't really tell. Looks interesting though.

That's the artist with a thing about flushed faces, right?

See how many characters in those two lines of defense you can identify.

Having worked on titles like Urotsukidoji, the original video nasty, he's ended up with an unasked for role as the UK's animeporn expert.

See how many characters in those two lines of defense you can identify.

I can seriously say I can't place any of the girls from the second line, though one does look a bit like Cure Dream(it's mostly the hair).

While he's a good writer and has being writing about and translating anime and manga for a couple of decades now, him being asked by the media on several occasions about erotica in Japanese media, DOES NOT make him any more of sociologist, psychologist, criminal profiler etc., or a specialist who's main area of study is the link between sexual crime and pornography in Japan, than you or I. If you want to quote an expert in that field, Milton Diamond is your man.

Polycell wrote:

I can seriously say I can't place any of the girls from the second line, though one does look a bit like Cure Dream(it's mostly the hair).

Only ones I recognize right away are four from Koihime Musou: Chouhi, Shokatsuryou, Houtou, and Sonshoukou.

dormcat wrote:

See how many characters in those two lines of defense you can identify.

I don't know whether you meant that rhetorically, but I can't resist me a challenge. From bottom to top: two girls from K-ON!(I can only name Asuza), don't recognize her, some girl from Strike Witches, What's-her-face Rin and Hatsune Miku, Kagami and Konata from Lucky Star, Louise and so on and so forth from Familiar of Zero, three girls I can't place, a girl I'm pretty sure's from Nisenmonogatari, a girl from Touhou, Rin from Kodomo no Jikan and some legs I can't identify. I can seriously say I can't place any of the girls from the second line, though one does look a bit like Cure Dream(it's mostly the hair).