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Manga Ruled 'Obscene'

You mean you don't all live in quaint little villages and have fairs every week?

Do you still have village idiots?
 
Mmmm. Difficult to imagine having a relationship with a man who bought little girls knickers in order to sit alone sniffing them, in between attempting to titillate himself via cartoons portraying a tiny Japanese man utilizing a huge octopus organ.

Perhaps people will soon revert to animalistic habits such sniffing each other's backsides in the street and licking their own nether regions while waiting for the lights to change. Guess that would mean the end for manufacturers of deodorant?
 
Jesus,let people look at what they want to look at..as long as it's legal...two or more adult anything!!Erect or flacciid anything who cares?Gay or straight..it doesn't matter as long as the participants are adult & willing..anything else is a big brother police state..al ah.. mr Bush/Hitler!!Blair etc!!
 
All well and good but where do you draw the line?

This seems like very dodgy ground but wouldn't technically be illegal (although one would wonder about the mindset of anyone who bought it):

Pedophilic promo has manga maniacs panting for pre-schooler panties

It's gross, filthy and disgusting, but Japanese erotic manga fans can't get enough of a comic that comes with a pair of pre-school girl's panties as a promotional item, according to Cyzo (March).

Pretty much anything goes in the world of Japanese erotic manga, but "Sekai Hatsu Shiawase Pantsu Shokai Gentei" (World's First Limited Edition Panties of Delight), one of the most wildly popular manga on the market, goes beyond being sickening.

Even Cyzo, a glossy monthly that could kindly be termed as "broad minded" is disgusted, saying "Has the world of Rorikon stooped this low?"

Rorikon, the Japanese word for pedophilia, is a contraction of the borrowed English words "Lolita," after the girl in Vladimir Nabokov's book of the same name, and "complex."

"Shiawase Pantsu" is a manga sold only to over 18s, but buyers of the January edition at least could also pick up a pair of underpants the publishers, Akaneshinsha, proudly boast of being for a 130-centimeter tall girl -- a size commonly worn by pre-schoolers.

Pointing out that Japan has been recently subjected to a spate of high profile pedophile crimes, Cyzo attempts to contact Akaneshinsha, a publisher that purveys erotic manga catering to all manner of tastes -- imaginable and unimaginable -- but the company refuses to comment on the manga.

Cyzo notes that there's nothing rare in the erotic manga or video game world for articles of girl's clothing to be used as promotional giveaways for comic purchases. Typical items are pantyhose or school-issued swimsuits.

"It's really hard to mass produce these items, so it's difficult to say whether it's a trend to have these giveaways or not," Cyzo hears from a spokesman for Circus, a company which created "Sukumizu," a video game sold with a free schoolgirl's swimsuit. "I can't speak for other companies, but we decided on our giveaway because we wanted our readers to know what schoolgirls' swimsuits are really like."

Reaction on the Net to manga like "Shiawase Pantsu" or "Sukumizu" is, frankly, alarming. Many regard the blatantly pedophilia products with humor, but even self-professed child lovers are too red-faced to talk about it.

"Not even I can make a comment about little girls' underpants being given away," an admitted pedophile tells Cyzo.

Most alarming about "Shiawase Pantsu," however, is the reaction from consumers. It has, the monthly notes, sold so well that reservations for advance orders have been shut off because the publishers can't keep up with demand. (By Ryann Connell)

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February 27, 2006
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again6 said:
Mmmm. Difficult to imagine having a relationship with a man who bought little girls knickers in order to sit alone sniffing them, in between attempting to titillate himself via cartoons portraying a tiny Japanese man utilizing a huge octopus organ.
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There's just no pleasing some people... picky, picky, picky.
 
Suburban LA County Pulls Manga Text from Libraries

'Obscene Comics'
April 14, 2006

Bill Postmus, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of suburban San Bernadino County, California, has ordered the county's libraries to remove the scholarly text Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from circulation. He proudly announced the move, calling the book "obscene comics," on the county's Website, saying, "That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately."

The flap started in Victorville, after a 16-year-old checked the book out of the adult section of the library. The teen's mother "was horrified," according to a story in the local Desert Dispatch, and wrote a letter to the library asking that the book be removed.

County Library Collection Development Coordinator Nannette Bricker-Barrett, in a proud moment for free speech, was quoted by the newspaper as noting that it was the parent's responsibility to determine what a minor checked out of the adult section. "It is the parents' responsibility since the library does not act as a parent. It is the library's responsibility to offer a broad spectrum of materials, not to exclude materials....Library policy affirms the American Library Association's Library Bill of rights, Freedom to Read, and Freedom to View statements." The county-wide system had 13 copies of the book in its collection.

The 2004 trade paperback, written by Paul Gravett and published by Harper Design, is a history of Japanese comics, and includes, in several chapters, discussion of adult comics that depict sex and violence. The violence was apparently not an issue, nor was the fact that the reproductions of panels that feature sexual situations were, as far as we could tell, all R-rated and treated in a serious, scholarly way. Postmus' statement and the local newspaper coverage made much of the fact that the book contains "sex with animals," but we couldn't find it; we must not have looked as hard.

The vast San Bernadino County, east of Los Angeles, includes such suburban communities as Ontario, Chino, and Fontana, as well as the more remote Barstow and Twenty-Nine Palms.

Postmus has also called for the library system "to draft a plan to protect children from inappropriate books and other materials that may currently exist in the county library system."
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That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately."
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Yeah, you can tell he thought long and hard about that one...

This sort of person - no notion of proper procedures, no respect for the trained professionals he's second-guessing, and no shame in displaying his incompetence before the world - is inappropriate for public office. He doesn't have the power to pull books and if he thinks the American Library Association isn't going to demonstrate that, he's got another think coming.

This sort of crap happens most often in school districts because school districts have cut most or all of their librarian positions for budgetary reasons and are dealing with untrained or semi-trained library clerks, "media specialists," and overworked randomly-assigned English teachers. Professional librarians are another ball of wax entirely and, with the battle against the Patriot Act's gag order and no-subpoena provisions in full swing, they're all primed to fight the fight.

Whether or not the book is "obscene" by the standards of local law is largely irrelevant.
 
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