I've read through your post and i think you might have been talking past me but I think we did that the last time we talked too.
LifeCharacter said:
Possibly, though I'm not familiar enough with the history of obscenity laws.
I know me neither, the only real reason i can see the similarity is this is what or close to why they snagged Alan Turning on. Britian finally apologized for his chemical castration.
Though even before the Meiji they weren't exactly a sexual paradise, what with locking all their prostitutes into guarded pleasure districts that they couldn't leave and keeping the "wrong" people from ever visiting them.
which is reasonable, i should however remind you that at no point did i consider this a "sexual paradise".
Now what matters is the boots on the ground, i don't know if japan had the same dislike for human skin Victorian britian had nor the same dislike for sex that saint Augustine of Hippo put into Christianity (he is more or less responsible for the doctrine of original sin or so I've heard would not want to be a theologian).
No idea, I'd just prefer it if people would stop acting as if Japan is this utopia of sexual freedom because some of their subcultures produce and consume weird anime porn and are obsessed with lingerie-clad child characters.
Also just why would you waste your time on something like that?
People are going to believe what they are going to believe what they want to believe. If they want to be degenerates and worship japan like that let them, their loss when they set their weeb feet on it's shores.
Anyway well that wasn't my intention and is largely unrelated here.
And if the internet wasn't like it was I'd be surprised we are discussing in rough the merits of using the term Prudish to describe our culture when discussing why the trailer was arguably not designed with the west in mind. I don't doubt that you wouldn't have anything to say if i had phrased it as japan neckbeards are jaded in general and such actions do not elicit strong revulsion in them. But that's a mouthful.
The broad strokes remain the same.
See I say the west in broad strokes because I'm pretty sure there are far worse things coming out of the slav countries.
Regardless you understand that this subculture is one of their most popular exports and as much as i dislike the weebs good animations and games do from from that export. Also we are dealing, are generally assumed to be dealing with and in this context dealing with west nerd v east nerd not fuckings normies. So as far as i can see it's fine for people to indicate that a subculture is more prudish than enough when dealing with roughly approximate subcultures.
And that the West was some prudish convent because they're not the biggest fans of overtly sexualized children or porn entirely focused on raping women.
I have a thousand things to say about this but it mostly boils down to:
NO, you know that nobody actually holds that direct opinion and if you've actually met people like that then you've spent too long in places i fear to tread.
And Dude there are far more sexual aberrant in Weeb works than just bestiality-rape things and pedo-loli-trash, going for the emotionally polarizing is just low hanging fruit, it disrespects me, it disrespects you and anyone else who reads this.
Also to reiterate I'd argue that the japanese weebs are thankfully far more prudish then the parts of the furry fandom that have been highlighted to me but all is degenerate.
