Posted on 03/10/2009 2:25:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
It's an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography—but more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed it. The premise here is that a wealthy man is out for revenge against the schoolgirl who had him jailed as a chikan, or subway pervert. The epidemic of chikan is an enormous problem in Japan, particularly in major cities, where trains are so crowded that it's easy for predators to conceal their crimes. In Declan Hayes' 2005 book, The Japanese Disease, the author describes a community of salarymen who organize online "groping associations" and subscribe to publications that suggest ideal train lines and timetables for attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
>>You wouldn’t believe some of the manga, a lot of which is available on the shelf at your local bookstore. Japanese pornography laws allow artists and animators to depict fully nude women and graphic sex scenes (rape, beastiality, etc...), so long as they do not show any pubic hair!
Not true...the pubic hair came back recently due to the low birth rate (apparently the lack of pubes in porn has something to do with monogamous sex) thanks to the Japanese gov’t. The naughty bits are still no-no.
You should have seen some of those girls revealing their ankles!!!
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