Japan's $5 billion child porn industry

[Submission]

"Figures for the total value of the Japanese child pornography industry are hard to come by, but annual sales of manga alone in 2000 amounted to over 600 billion yen (US$5.5 billion), nearly one quarter of the total sales of all published material."

http://www.littlespeck.com/region/CF...-Jp-080226.htm



This isn't including other forms of CP. The CP industry alone in Japan is supposedly bigger than the US internet porn industry.

[dedro]

holy shit only 4 years ago, pretty sick

[Something Else]

Manga isn't pornography ewe bell-end.

[Something Else]

[Biggles]

It is just another of Submission's lame anti-Japanese threads.

[weenden]

nahh magna good animai good wish i could spell

[Snee]

Nice.

I especially like:

The current child pornography laws in Japan do not regulate manga and art that depict children who are not real, or "virtual child pornography".

Which pretty much says nothing, seeing as that sort of thing is just as legal in most of the world.

Anyone know if this has gone through, yet.

The manga-quote is also nice, especially considering it goes on to say:

It is estimated that 30-40% of manga contains sexual themes or content, much of it representing schoolgirls of elementary or junior high school age in themes including rape, sado-masochism and bondage.

I'd like to know a) Who estimated that? b) How much of it is "much of it" really? and c) Does the "themes" in "representing schoolgirls of elementary or junior high school age in themes including rape, sado-masochism and bondage" actually mean that they actually have that sort of thing done to them, or is he being deliberately vague with statistics so as to make it sound more sensational?

a reporter told Weekly Playboy.

an employee of a medium-sized DVD manufacturer producing material featuring models under 15 years old told Weekly Playboy.

lulz

EDit:
(Weekly Playboy is a dodgy sort of japanese men's mag, wot features articles, pics of wimmin, manga, and plenty of ads for manly stuff.)

[BawA]

thats too much porn, and its not much a surprise japans is kinda marvel/cmoic maniac society so no wonder they like manga more then real porn.

[Submission]

what difference does it make if perverts want cartoon vs real? Its depicting children. Its digusting either way especially for a country thats "modern".

Sorry but outlawing 2003, ONLY 4 YEARS AGO, says everything. Imagine how big the industry was BEFORE it was outlawed.

What modern country has legal cartoon child porn? Go ahead and name a country.

[Something Else]

If ewe were beaten to death with an obscure, Japanese, schoolgirl sex-doll.

That'd be some fine ironing.