Only if a person isn’t hurting themselves or anyone else should they be allowed to do such things at their leisure. However, viewing child porn, rape etc. would in many cases support those responsible for such imagery and encourage the creation of more illegally produced imagery.

Hentai, luckily, is clean. No one gets hurt and people can enjoy their sick fetishes to their hearts’ content. After all, people have little to no control over what turns them on but since everyone has the willpower to override their instincts and control themselves, they can use porn such as hentai or their imaginations to relieve any sexual frustration they feel from doing so.

I think that pedo should be locked up if he won’t follow the court’s instructions and I personally don’t want his case to appeal because he’s not the kind of person I want representing hentai viewers.

@Mel
O.o That’s just wrong. It makes me cry (figuratively) more than the potential banning of hentai.

Sorry that I didn’t have much to offer.

For the CP part, half baked effort makes me say, it’s illegal. Because like, DUH? It HARMS the children. And yeah like you said, watching it only furthers it.

Though there are exceptions, maybe…probably not…nah

I mean, I’m just saying, if in the crazy future you can MIND SWAP and Paris Hilton wanted to bang someone in the body of a test tube baby, WHATEVER. But that’s just me being insecure and not wanting some super nerd going HERE’S A INCREDIBLY RARE CASE TO PROVE YOU WRONG.

@Salyu: You do realize you can’t crack down on half of the first world countries right? Like I said, CP and whatever is just a buffer, the LAW ain’t stupid enough to attack the heart of sex. If it ever tried, it’d get raped by the tentacles of hentai before it ever hit real porn’s door.

oh uh Disclaimer: all of this is for the purposes of a legal exorcise. Neither I nor any person here would actually, or ever consider doing anything of this nature. *looks around nervously*(I think they bought it)

So, if the “Law” ever decided to crack down specifically on hentai manga, anyone and everyone would be anally screwed (pun intended). If you own hentai, then I guarantee you that at minimum, 80% of your collection depicts at least one minor (in other words, someone younger than 18), engaging in sexual intercourse. Furthermore, as I said before, in order to legally even view pornographic material, you have to be 18 or older yourself, and the paradox is if you ARE 18 or older, then technically your collection of high school kids having sex could constitute as child pornography. However, viewing pornographic material while underage is obviously a lighter offense than viewing underage pornographic material while being of-age.

I think the real issue with hentai is that regardless of the age of the characters, aside from obviously Loli material, every character looks like a genetically enhanced matured sex machine and obviously not representative of what real children look like; most women don’t even look like this in their 20s, much less in their teens.

And these are disturbed people we look at. If they are wrong for drawing them, then we too, are wrong for jerking off to them. For by doing so, we show that we are just as disturbed as they are.

If there’s one thing I’m glad for, it’s that they focus their urges into art rather than show it in real life. Sure, it does not keep people from violating the law, but at least, it’s keeping them from doing even worse harm. It’s not the perfect solution, I admit, but one has to work with what one has.

Would the decision come from a German judge, we would see it as a bothersome situation but it is not an actual law. It would mean for the parliament to “do” something about it.

interesting

1) Just wondering lol, the first pic if Fate Stay Night right?
2) loli isn’t bad in my opinion
3) That man was addicted to child porn. He should have gone to jail long ago
4) Somebody knows the status of that guy who ordered manga from Japan?

Well, I believe in tolerance too, but there is a limit. I am willing to let other people indulge in their fetishes or whatever for the most part as long as it doesn’t harm me. And to be honest, loli hentai doesn’t really harm me or anyone else. I will take a stand against real CP though, with actual children. Viewing of such materials encourages further production which further harms children. That’s something I am against protecting. Other than that, people should be able for the most part to gather, be it on the Internet or in your “pedobar” if they aren’t harming anyone.

@TP

I did giggle when I first read the title of the case, an amusing last name for the content.

@DrmChsr0

You really can’t change his mind, or anyone else who has a fetish, for that matter. Certain things get people off, and that’s just the way they are wired. That being said, like I mentioned before if he wants to keep his pedo-ways to 2D I’m totally cool with that as long as he doesn’t go to 3D. I would say he deserves to go to jail for the 3D CP.

@Kiri

“Really, if anything, starting a shit storm over IMAGINARY CHILDREN only belittles the real victims out there, the real children.”

Well put, if a bit enraged~

@Mel

The US legal system is largely based on case law, similar to Great Britain and dissimilar to France. The system is very basically as follows:

Legislature (House & Senate): Writes the laws
Executive (President): Enforces the laws
Judicial (Courts): Interprets the Constitution and all other laws

@TP

The aggravating circumstances here of his real pedophilia may have helped things along, but the statute says what it says regardless, according to this court. From a hypothetical standpoint you shouldn’t need any real CP to go along with it, just like the other case I mentioned in Iowa.

As for the text, I didn’t spend too much time on that section but it was pretty amusing. To be honest though, people read porn stories for the same reasons they watch porn. Think of those stories in Penthouse and whatnot, or the thousands of erotic stories websites out there.

@Jubbz

20 years for drawings and real child porn, so only half as ridiculous

@Nemo

I was always amused by the video game arguments. So, how is moving a mouse around and clicking like shooting a real gun. Is pressing X on my PS2 to jack a car in GTA anything like stealing a car in real life? I think not.

@Adoggz

Just possessing it isn’t a crime, so truecrypt isn’t going to help you. Downloading it is the crime here.