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INTEREST: Statistician Midori Makita Calculates Percentage of Consensual Sex in Erotic Manga

while only 19% of scenarios were non-consensual.

Comic Lo is 90 percent consensual who would have known loli porn is so wholesome.

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while only 19% of scenarios were non-consensual.

I was surprised by this until I remembered this is just erotica not actual hentai

if you did the stats on hentai...yikes

Does erotic manga even have sex scenes? I always thought that the main skill in writing this manga is how long you can save characters as technical virgins and at the same time make plot increasingly risky pornographic.

Something that annoys me in erotic manga is that, in most of the consensual sex ones, you never see a dude actually seducing a girl (And when you see one initiating, she either was interested in him so she doesn't mind he forced her). I know it panders to fantasies, but you don't quite see positive examples of a dude wooing a girl. Heck, in most of them, it's like the girl always has to initiate out of frustration because she likes the dude, he likes her but doesn't do anything because he's indecisive, is afraid, whatever. Again, it panders to fantasies, but I will still rally for more positive examples of men in porn!

As far as the romancing aspect goes? I think you see that a lot more in non-BL hentai aimed at women, especially yuri made for lesbians. You can see it in male-targeted titles but it's definitely not very common.

kotomikun wrote:

The stereotype about Japanese people having wild fetishes is mostly just juxtaposition, though. They seem very polite and conservative in person, but through anime/manga we get exposed to all their secret sexual fantasies. Anything seems more extreme when it comes from someone you'd never expect, especially if it's taboo.

Americans are the same way,

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while only 19% of scenarios were non-consensual.

I was surprised by this until I remembered this is just erotica not actual hentai

if you did the stats on hentai...yikes

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this is just a long-term pet project. I could easily see myself doing something like this if I had enough free time and access.

Regardless, I find research like this fascinating, as it covers topics that often get overlooked. I do agree that the numbers for hentai doujinshi would probably be significantly more skewed towards non-consensual using the definition that Midori is, though maybe not quite half. Another potentially interesting point could be comparing the numbers between hetero and homo sexual relations, with separate breakdowns for both BL and yuri; the latter seems to skew much more heavily towards consensual, and what I've heard about BL suggests the opposite. How incest stories would rank here might also be interesting; I suspect that they would come out heavily on the consensual side as well.

As far as the romancing aspect goes? I think you see that a lot more in non-BL hentai aimed at women, especially yuri made for lesbians. You can see it in male-targeted titles but it's definitely not very common.

#HayamiLover wrote:

Does erotic manga even have sex scenes? I always thought that the main skill in writing this manga is how long you can save characters as technical virgins and at the same time make plot increasingly risky pornographic.

You're confusing fan service titles with actual hentai, where a single sex scene can easily last a dozen or more pages.

gamegodtre wrote:

Comic Lo is 90 percent consensual who would have known loli porn is so wholesome.

That legit made me LOL. But it makes sense. Given it's already a very controversial subject matter, making it violent and such would just make it look even worse.

For those shocked by the Comic LO numbers, keep in mind that the definition of "consensual" sex the guy was using does not seem to involve any sort of age of consent. So as I understand it, a Comic LO story could feature a 10 year old having sex with a 50 year old, and as long as there was no drugging/force/etc involved it would count as "consensual" for his study.

When you look at it that way, the numbers suddenly make a whole lot more sense.

Though even with that caveat, there's a lot of storylines involving non-physical intimidation, coercion, and/or blackmail, e.g.