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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

i think its somewhat widespread in every community. people tend to make a bigger deal of it than it actually is though (see: this post). for example the underage relationships shown in anime are usually pretty mundane in nature, as no one in anime ever has sex -- well outside of hentai.... but that is hentai...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (17 children)

as no one in anime ever has sex

Seems you have been missing a couple of shows ...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

i guarantee i've probably seen way more shows than you as my MAL has over 700+ series watched. the amount of non-hentai shows where the characters actually fornicate, much less on screen, is probably in the single digits between all of those shows watched. I can't actually think of a non-hentai show where the charcters actually do have sex on screen, aside from one -- and that one is between two older high school characters, and you don't actually see anything really objectionable.

if i actually think about it, i think the stuff i've seen in american tv and film is probably worse than that. I think the biggest problem people have with anime is that japense culture is unfamiliar and scary...

feel free to name some shows though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sexualizing a character doesn't require onscreen fornication

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago

doesn’t require much at all to you people, apparently. the wind blowing the wrong direction seems to draw ire.

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