infinisynth said:Do you masturbate to hentai? No offense, but is that mentally healthy?
NeutralDrow said:Is whacking off to any pornography mentally healthy? I'm curious as to why you'd think.
From someone who is on the outside looking in, whenever I like to play devil's advocate, my argument for this is basically:SomeBritishDude said:Honestly I've always thought it was a little weird but look at it like this.
-No one's getting hurt
-Imagination does most of the work
-It's probably less questionable than people having private time with real porn, considering what most porn actors actually go though and the dangers involved.
When you see an animated action scene, you may get excited and entertained, and that's what it was made for, to entertain/excite.
When you see an animated dramatic/sad scene, you may feel sad, and that was what it was made to do, invoke sadness.
When you see hentai, you may get aroused, and that was it's purpose, to arouse. Technically if you say "*insert video game/anime/comic character here* looks badass/ugly/etc" I could then say "it's not real though..." and why would that be wrong?
Hentai is designed to titillate. It might be weird if you were watching National Geographic and getting aroused, because that's not what it's purpose was, but that is the purpose of hentai.