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[deviant]

How does Hentai content fair in regards to obscenity? Does it fly under the radar since it's animation? There's a lot of disturbing hentai content so even depicting minors. I remember hearing that Bush had passed some law trying to specifically target that market, but that it had been overturned somehow someway. I'm not very familiar with the specifics, anybody familiar with this?

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by deviant

How does Hentai content fair in regards to obscenity? Does it fly under the radar since it's animation? There's a lot of disturbing hentai content so even depicting minors. I remember hearing that Bush had passed some law trying to specifically target that market, but that it had been overturned somehow someway. I'm not very familiar with the specifics, anybody familiar with this?

Not anymore. In fact, the most recent "clarifications" seem to point very specifically at simulated sex and other areas that are sex not always involving real people. You may want to have a look around.

IMHO, much of the hentai world (and much of Japanese porn in general) panders pretty solidly to what western people would consider to be pedo fantasy. It is understandable as Japan doesn't have the same rules against sex with girls under 18 (it is illegal for foreigners to have sex with girls under 18... Japanese? Well...). The girls play the game dressing in schoolgirl uniforms well into their twenties (and even thirties these days) and the Hentai material they produce often plays to that same fantasy. Nothing wrong with it for them, nothing wrong with it for most of us who understand, but I am not sure that 12 uninformed civilians in Podunk, Georgia are going to be able to understand.

We all take chances, and the Max case has shown that in fact there are some limits out there.