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NEWS: Osaka Considers Regulating Boys-Love Materials

Homosexuals have always been among the "concerned citizens" favorite punching bags, so they are suggesting that the real target is not freedom of speech but "those filthy deviants who are out to molest your children".

Isn't Osaka the Japanese Texas? i can see why they would make this decision.

Nemo_N wrote:

Homosexuals have always been among the "concerned citizens" favorite punching bags, so they are suggesting that the real target is not freedom of speech but "those filthy deviants who are out to molest your children".

This is not really targeting gays in any way. The intended audience for BL and josei is straight, which is why bara exists (a genre focusing on the small segment of the population who are gay), but bara rarely if ever depicts characters who even look like they are under the 20-30 age range.

It would be way too much of a stretch to find groups who lobby against gay marriage or GBLT equality are the same ones who are putting the pressure on Japan to have more consideration for child welfare and advocacy. I would think those groups would rather like to avoid the accusation of being radical right-wing and homophobic.

i love it on how they are only thinking about regulating shonen ai and not the hardcore hentai or bara.

So wait J-Syxx are you directing these questions at me (ie also calling me heterocentrist)? Your comments express and reflect pretty much the same as what I said, but it seems like you are disagreeing with something.

Maybe I should clarify. I'm simply saying that material with gay content being restricted does not specifically mean any specific group or sexual orientation itself is being harassed (do you really believe otherwise???). The intent for the activists is to protect children, if they believe what they doing is right, then they would not want to attract negative attention by seemingly targeting gays in particular.

Actually, in retrospect, out of all the popular media that has come out of Japan, yaoi and BL are occasionally the most blatant and unabashed expressions of homophobia out there. But I strongly oppose pretty much all forms of restrictions on artistic expression.

To only target yaoi and not lolicon is homophobic and is absolutely sexist as well since you've said that females read these books. So women aren't allowed to read sexual content, and men are?

Are you for real? I never encouraged the regulation of any type of erotic material. Did you miss my last paragraph from my previous post? I'm strongly against the solicitation of censorship in all forms. How is it heterocentrist if I disagree banning gay porn will ONLY be perceived as lashing out against gays? Yaoi/BL is homophobic anyway but because it is primarily of interest to straight women, the ones who should be concerned are straight women. But I don't exactly support that either because all genres have universal appeal to some degree (meaning people who read yaoi/BL are black, white, male, female, gay, straight, bi, trans, ugly, pretty, whatever). I find it homocentrist (no better than heterocentrist) to say banning yaoi should ONLY be of particular concern to gays and no one else.

BTW I'm transgendered and pansexual, so I find it very arrogant for someone to pin me with a degrading label such as heterocentrist when I'm not even heterosexual.

Past, I don't get what you meant about BL being the most homophobic form of books coming from Japan? Have you even read any? Most of the mainstream BL books focus on gay relationships. How is that homophobic? Just wondering what you meant because I"m kind of confused at what you said.

Meh. At this point I don't care about whatever they want to regulate/prohibit. Actually, please do ban any underage character from ever appearing on anime, that way we might get less fanservice pantsu anime.