Russia is weird and according to new law, in short, hentai=CP. Any hentai, not only loli/shotacon!
First Russian hentai-sites are already blocked. Today, for example, authorities require to close /h/ and /ho/ forums on 2ch.hk, the fastest Russian imageboard (newslink on Russian), although the servers and domain isn't located in Russia :genius:

Also, using TOR or i2p or any other anonymizer is getting outlaw too (law is on discussion) "Great China Firewall" is coming to Яussia.

Links on Russian: hentai, tor
Sorry for bad Engslih, if any.

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Does it really matter? There are real women in porn out there, and even better, real women outside.

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Even if you are not interested in hentai, it looks like first steps to censorship and limiting freedom of speech and self-expression.

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How does that surprise you? It's russia we're talking about.

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It may not matter to you, but different people have - gasp - different preferences. Banning the ones that harm others is one thing, but drawn porn? That's overkill.

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Your first mistake was assuming the women in porn are real. They're caked in more makeup than a clown and their breasts honk just as effectively as a clown's nose.

1 decade ago
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still more real then little japanese school girls being raped by tentacles

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And that was your second mistake, assuming that is all hentai is.

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but tentacle hentai is the best hentai!

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and its so hard to find any where the girl wants the tentacle rape ;p.

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You're looking in the wrong places then.

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saying that is pretty much like saying all americans are fat greedy and stupid.

a.k.a: close minded thoughts

1 decade ago
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Applies to TJF as well, not all women in porn are 95% plastic and makeup, as many women IRL are.

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agreed, considering how a lot of porn pages are adding a small tits category, im pretty sure there are a lot of natural pornstars

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Haha, well, no really, you know, there ARE women with ample naturals out there, and while some don't have a lot of career choices, I've also come across women who just love having sex or are actually addicted and therefore do porn just because it suits them.
Assuming they are all slaves and forced to shoot the movies is just as wrong as thinking all of them look like that since they're seventeen.

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You can't honk bags of sand!

1 decade ago
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more like waterballoons....but those don't honk either

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+1 and when the honk efficiently, only the skin outside is real, the inside is more filled up then a teen who has small boobs trying to impress other boyz by stuffing her bra.

1 decade ago
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The pizza boxes are blocking the door out from my man-cave. Can't get outside to access these "real women" you speak of.

1 decade ago
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Nice one

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Yeah, drawn porn is 'worse' than one that exploits living humans, am I rite? -.-

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I don't think porn is exploitive when most women sign up for it and are paid unless you watch kiddie pron -_-

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exploit? have you seen some of the salaries for "just lay there and get sex"? too bad its so much more difficult for males to get into that line of work. and they get paid less too. stupid porn glass fence and ceiling.

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Unless you're fine with doing gay porn. There's lots of money in that, from what I've heard.

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Porn's not quite an earner, if you're not every years AVN top. Plus, it's dirtier and more exhausting than office work. Most people wouldn't do sewers cleaning or construction work either, I think that's more of a fitting comparison.

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First, they came for the Russians, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Russian.

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Админы 2ch.hk получили письмо от замглавы Роскомнадзора Максима Ксензова, который потребовал закрыть раздел по хентаю «на основании решения экспертов, признавших эти картинки детским порно».

Translating that for example, because seems the main paragraph: Admins of 2ch received a message from.......they asked to close hentai section..........because experts considered hentai pics children porn.

1 decade ago
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experts? what experts? porn experts?...

1 decade ago
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LOL
Sort of. Art-experts and other people like anatomist, who can say: hey, this milf with big breasts has a child eyes and plot doesn't have art-value. it's CP! BAN BAN BAN

1 decade ago
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so... those experts can't separate fiction from reality? AWESOME!

1 decade ago
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They're just corrupted idiots.

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I remember watching a video explaining exactly how an anime character is drawn and what emotions it is supposed to pull from the male viewer. The body of a beautiful woman and a large head; so the woman seems smaller, similar to a little girl. This makes you feel attracted to the woman and desire to protect her like she was a daughter or something. I could see how the "experts" came to their conclusion, but ya I think it might be going to far.

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"Came" what a beautiful word to put in threads like these.

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+1

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Not wanting to offend anyone, but isn't masturbating to cartoons kinda weird in the first place?

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It means the same damn thing in Japanese. Its a cartoon, get over it.

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Would you consider a Pixar film to be a cartoon?

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I would.

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+1 and I have over 1tb of anime and watch most Pixr films.

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I have watched almost every single pixar film out there and I'm a big fan of cartoons. I don't know what's exactly the bad thing of being a cartoon to be honest.

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I think it would really clear things up if you gave your definition of a cartoon. I think you seem to include anything that is drawn (whether by hand or computer graphics) and then is animated.

If that's the case, I think we're just arguing over semantics now. I consider animation to be the catch-all phrase. I think a good comparison would be the difference between scotch and bourbon. Both are forms of whiskey, but there are distinct differences. For one, there is a difference between the country of origin. Then there is a difference of ingredients, brewing style. Just as there are differences in cartoons vs. anime in drawing style and origin.

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It could be, the thing is, and if you've read my wobbling somewhere below you would know is that whereas I consider them all to belong to a category people feel somehow offended when you tell that Anime is cartoons, which I find a bit not of my taste.

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you never saw who framed rodger rabbit? toons are violent sociopaths, child-substitute whores, regular whores, brutal murderers, drug dealers, hitmen ect. and the 3d halfbreeds are worse.

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I can make similiar argument. All music is just random noise slapped together, no sub-categories or anything of that sort.

It's animation, and then there's different categories for them.

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Actually that's not a similar argument.

1 decade ago
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Actually it is, but just not from your perspective. Animation = music, cartoon = pop, anime = rock, could be one example.

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Well I never disregarded any kind of cartoons as random things slapped together. That's where the analogy failed for me.

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EXACTLY.

1 decade ago
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Well, I've heard worst than cartoons.. like balloons.

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vacuum sealed in plastic like hansolo

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XD

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Some people have weird fetishes. :/

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well, everything is weird. even normal porn (je, normal porn, what is normal porn?) could look weird for some humans out there...
anyway =/= ILEGAL
and this is madness.

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Kinda weird? since when the world was normal in the first place? :S

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Who said anything about masturbating :o

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What's it for? The plot? Please enlight me up. I'm serious.

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i watch big busty girls getting raped by alien monsters for the really interesting plot and character development

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Yes, the plot. Did you miss my post? Eroge Visual Novels counts as "hentai" as well. This includes masterpieces in storytelling like Kara no Shoujo, etc.

In fact, one of the best games I have ever played in my life is an Eroge. Sengoku Rance has one of the most compelling turn based strategy RPG systems I have ever encountered. It beats Civilization, Warlock, Fallen Enchantress, etc into the ground. I put at least 100+ hours into it - and that's saying a lot because I only have maybe 4 or 5 games with that much time investment.

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To be honest, jatan. I did not miss your post but I didn't understand what you were referring to. I do admit I'm not really keen on all that Japanese culture so I was legitimately curious.

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Honestly, I wish that most of these games got rid of the sex scenes. They actually do detract from the story in many cases and it prevents the games from getting much traction outside of the visual novel crowd.

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I know what you are referring to. I somehow think that sex excenes are superfluous in many things, for example GoT being one of them. I'm cool if they are need by plot requirementes but not gratuitous sex scenes.

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B-but you said that Fortix is "The best game I have ever played in my life." Liar!

1 decade ago
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there is 2 types of best games ever played.

first one is the one that you like a lot

the second one is fortix

1 decade ago
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one man's trash is another man's hentai

1 decade ago
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It is pretty weird to be honest. And ponies, that I understand even less. People are sick.

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As a brony, seriously what the fuck is wrong with cloppers. I honestly think that that is way worse than just "regular" hentai. I personally think that hentai is fine, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just another media form. But taking characters from a kids' show, however mature the audience, has a great level of wrongness in it.

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i like watching hentai than watching the real one. you could say hentai is very extraordinary to watch compared to real life sex which is sometimes repetitive and boring plus hentai got a story too. well its up to the people because we all have different preferences.

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Well if most of the time real life sex already struggles to live up to expectations derived from porn I don't really know how would it do agains hentai ones.

Also regular porn has a story too.

1 decade ago
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hentai /= fap material. I think eroge Visual Novels would probably fall under this category too.

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you can always fap to eroges as well ;p just select scene you want from extras ;p

1 decade ago
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Clown midget porn is way more interesting to fap to.

Honk honk

1 decade ago
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weird =/= illegal

Well, at least in democratic countries. :)

1 decade ago
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I never said I backed it's criminalisation.

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All NSFW links, especially if you happen to click around elsewhere.

Some old blog posts I stumbled across years ago that pretty succintly sums up why some people like hentai (which, no, isn't cartoons by default). These two are the most relevant, but this one also helps in detailing something "real" porn can't show and what hentai can.

Also, bonus for OP, you're not alone. Canada has some issues too.

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How's that hentai are not cartoons? If we take cartoon as animated drawings hentai sure is. Also if I'm mistaken please let me know I've failed to find a decent comparison on both without being it horribly biased towards how anime is WAY better (often coming from a guy with some kind of manga-ish avatar)

Anyways, that post you linked to it's rather full of bullshit if you allow me to say it. There's plenty of porn out there made with and for real people, not everyone likes fapping to a D-cup siliconed-lips tuned actress. And basing their whole opinion on why they like hentai to well, this isn't real, but what you guys like isn't either seems a rather ridiculous reasoning to me.

Also I do see reasons why hentai could be prosecuted, speciall as some of it depicts rather young-looking girls being obliterated by octopii and things of the such. But I don't know. Let everyone fap to what they like, as long as they do no harm I'm noone to judge.

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As you'll notice, I said why some people like hentai. It's a vast, vast subject and no one reason would cover it all, I was just giving one person's feelings on it that do cover part of it. Wikipedia's article on it has a few more reasons, such as every possible kink being catered to, especially ones that are difficult if not impossible to set up in real life (for example, rape fantasies, which are very common in both genders, as both the victim and the perpetrator, are not quite as much fun in the real thing (again, mostly, not speaking for everyone) and roleplaying with a partner doesn't always have the oomph you need). Hentai allows that very easily and without fear (from either the encounter itself or the law, hopefully).

As for the prosecution, go after the ones that need it (not to mention most sites, not even /b/, allow CP in). Banning it all is just stupid and an example of censorship. Hell, censorship pretty much led to what most people see hentai as now to begin with, since Japan's silly censorship laws paved the road to tentacles. First goes one thing, then another, then it's onto the erotic writing, then it's the real porn, on and on. Making it all illegal is outright stupid.

Moving back to the first point, about cartoons, again, I only said they're not cartoons by default. Perhaps I should have been clearer and said cartoony. There are plenty that are like Scooby Doo-style cartoony. There are also plenty that are more detailed like Evangelion. Then there's the black and white drawn artwork, then there's the photorealistic ones, then there's the really abstract hentai that looked like Picasso did it. "Cartoony" doesn't describe it all as there's a million different artists out there, all with their own differing styles and preferences. However, without linking you a vast, vast selection of all the varying types (which I'm not prepared to do, if only for the time it would take to accrue that many links), there's nothing I could say that I think would convince you it's not necessarily cartoony. Nor would I even attempt to anyway. Honestly, that sort of thing is all subjective. The chances of me ever convincing you are slim to none, even if I gave you all the links in the world. Like there are so many artists, there are also so many viewers, all with their own preferences, for style and content. Some people like one thing, others don't. Trying to convince them otherwise is pointless as that's a process that has to come naturally. So, to sum up, I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it for the most part.

Edit: This post looked much shorter in the edit window...

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Well thanks for the reply. First of all I don't and never did use the term cartoon as something bad or despicable. I simply used it as a catch-all term (?) where anything sort of drew and animated fits in. The thing is that any comparison I looked into only depicted anime as either "better, more profound and more detailed" which didn't seem like a suitable way of diferencing them to me. Also I must admit I'm rather ignorant when it comes to Japanese culture so all my questions were legit and I was not trying to mock neither those art forms nor the people who like/consume them.

Also that reason why you said hentai is liked might also be the one that led to this overzealous measures as (while I don't really support it) I could understand why and how people could se dangerous behavioural patterns being depicted in there. That would get us to ye good ol' discussion we've had several times around here, does consuming some contents lead to a similar behaviour IRL? Mostly not. But the doubt's always there and that.

Also well, I'd dare to say that those Russian experts are no more experts than I am and simply freaked out when seeing the amount of people raped by octopii (eg) and decided to ban it all without further looking into it.

I don't know if I left any point I should had adressed out, if so let me know. And thanks for respecting my opinion, so do I with yours.

Cheers!

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How's that hentai are not cartoons?
Because by definition, they are different? You don't go around calling a jrpg a crpg. They are two distinct subcategories of rpg just like anime and cartoons are two distinct subcategories of animated media.

speciall as some of it depicts rather young-looking girls being obliterated by octopii and things of the such
There is real life porn as well that depicts young girls being tentacle raped. I dont see those being banned in Russia or anywhere else.

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I have yet to find one of those. And to me cartoon is just a general name for pretty much anything animated.

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then you got wrong definition.

And yeah - it's quite easy to google live action movies with tentacles ;p

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What's the difference then? I'm waiting for one. And I as I've said I've never stumbled upon a sexual movie where a woman is penetrated by some kind of tentacled beast. I'm not saying that they don't exist, but I highly doubt they're the general rule.

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Well - neither are loli/shota/tentacles a general rule in hentai. They're still a niche.

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I would dare to say they are far more common. Also and I think this has been already discussed, most anime characters do look like children and or teenagers. So I could understand the issues that could arise.

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so by your definition - watching a porno with a short girl with A-cup boobs CP as well, even if a girl is 18/20 y/o? And what if the girl in this porno will be crossdressing? Wearing a school uniform or having a ponytails?

CP is bad because the actual children suffer to satisfy a phedophile urges. A drawing or animation, even of a teen girl, what I will agree happens often in hentai - harms no children at all.

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Make me a favour and don't try to put in my mouth things I haven't said from now on. I said I could UNDERSTAND why someone would have issues with those kind of things as they resemble a bit too much to underage children. I've never backed it nor anything of the sort. I haven't defined anything either as far as I recall.

And to your question, the woman is over 18. There's no more room for discussion even if I do find rather disgusting the fact that they try to make them look not as teenages which wouldn't be that bad, but children.

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different strokes

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I see what I think you did there.

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haha :D

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Probably going to watch this next lol, looks funny.

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Not wanting to offend you, but isn't masturbating to 2D pictures of 3D women kinda weird in the first place?

Don't try to presume what is weird and what is not.

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I'm not trying to presume anything but if you fail to see what's the difference between somewhat real women having somewhat real sex and hentai. Well...

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They have deep, intricate plots.

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That's some serious shit. I'm sorry to hear that, comrades!

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Save the children! Hallelujah! Praise the lord!

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Dayum, go out there and protest for legal porn!

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Protesting in Russia? That worked pretty well for Pussy Riot.

Seriously though? I'd be careful about protesting in Russia. You could get arrested on trumped up charges of hooliganism, and given the nature of what you're protesting, might even get slapped with extremism charge.

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And if no-one protests? It's already nearly illegal to even tell people gays exist in Russia. Is that sort of hostile attitude going to say at just that? No. This is the next step, one I didn't see coming but one that makes perfect sense. People need to realise this and fight it. Now, not later. It's far harder to fight a law that's already in place. First they came for...

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Protesting doesn't work in Russia. Revolution did. At least, til Stalin really screwed stuff up.

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That is horrible, and where does this leave anime with some sexual content?
But to be fair, 90% of non-loli hentai is sort of CP as they are still high school students.

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Probably in the same place as hentai. Goodbye, Evangelion (probably for the best, that one). And 90% is a vast overestimate. You're going to the wrong sites if that's all you see. Not only that, but legal ages vary very widely. Japan and Spain both have theirs at 13, UK at 16, Arizona is 18, Tunisia is 20, some countries don't have a legal age, others is more if you're married or not. Things are very rarely as simple as they appear to be. Whether you agree with it or not, some of that CP to you is perfectly normal and acceptable to other people's society.

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As a Spanish user here it's legal to have sexual relationships with someone if they are over 15 (If I'm not mistaken it was reciently raised) BUT you cannot record and/or share those unless all the people involved is over 18 y/o.

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If it was raised recently, mind updating the Wikipedia entry on it (citing it correctly and all)? For factual accuracy and to stop people from being mildly creeped out. It severely worried me that it had to be raised in 1999 to 13.

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I don't really want to get involved with wikipedia and after doing some research seems that the law was only ratified like on Monday. So you were pretty much right.

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Sex laws are weird.
Here in Canada we are only allow to perform anal when over 19/18 and only in groups of 2.

And in the US, you can pay someone to have sex with you only if you video tape it and sell it for a profit, otherwise it is illegal.

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I'm just recovering from hearing about the bizarre laws.

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I'm over 19, wanna have anal?

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Other stupid laws:

In poland you can have sex if you're over 15, but you cannot watch or show porno below 18. So generally f*cking 15 y/o is OK, but watching a porno as a 17 y/o is criminal offense ;p

They also tried to bann hentai few years ago, generally viewing them as potential pedophilia, argumenting that girls in hentai are often underage, but ran into legal problems - if the story doesn't exactly state the actual age of the girl in hentai you cannot how do you want to determine if the girl is underage if she's not real-life actress? It can be 20 y/o crossdressing into highschool uniform because she has that sort of fetish. Then they wanted to create tables, determining what height / body-type / boobs size etc animated character should have to be considered adult. But again - then what? We cannot watch real-life porno with small A-cup 20 y/o girl? It will fall into the same cathegory. Due to all these problems they finally never released the law.

And last funny story - for a moment Dragon Ball Manga were to be banned or marked 18+ in Poland, because in one scene we see Bulma's naked ass ;p

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I remember that Dragon Ball episode.

"In poland you can have sex if you're over 15, but you cannot watch or show porno below 18. So generally f*cking 15 y/o is OK, but watching a porno as a 17 y/o is criminal offense ;p"

That makes about 0 sense.

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When licensed in the US, they're suddenly all 18+ year old high school sophomores, dont worry about it!

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Well that sucks, Hentai can be friggin hilarious.

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Ridiculous. Some parts of it I can understand, but..this is like cutting off someone's arm because of a splinter in his thumb.

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what is CP?

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Well shit, I was gonna just say what it stood for, but even trying to type it feels wrong in every way imaginable.

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Most likely Child Pornography.

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Correct.

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Damn. That's pretty crazy.

Curious what about ecchi?(or whatever the fuck it's called) That's like hentai but it's more vanilla/usually doesn't show anything.

If ecchi was banned too, wouldn't that mean many animes would be banned? Because a lot of animes have fan service crap in them.

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It wasn't discuss about ecchi, but with new "antipiracy" law, goverment can block pretty anything they want, even Wiki.
I dunno what they will do with retail anime with ecchi...

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Well I was just saying if hentai is now banned that means ecchi is banned? And if ecchi is banned that means shows that are ecchi like would be banned? (Meaning a good chunk of anime shows. lol)

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The law just has its power and it's a good, but not simply question. If it seriously will ban any hentai element (ecchi) then, i think, we will remove or "censor" ecchi scenes from anime...

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What is ecchi? Sounds like something with horses.

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It's like hentai except doesn't show nudity.

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Actually, ecchi can show almost full nudity including breasts. Just doesnt include the genital areas.

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Yeah. I was going to say that but I was tired and didn't feel like typing more.

Ecchi is pretty much just really softcore stuff.

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CP?

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Combat Power.

Child Pornography.
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Oh, okay. In that case, that's one of the more disturbing elements of Japanese culture - sexual fascination with cartoon children. Sounds like Russia is overgeneralizing the concept though?

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It's pretty much just saying all Hentai is CP, which would be the same as saying all Porn is CP.

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Despite being a partially weird jump to make, can you think of any anime/manga style characters that don't look like children? Even if a character is in his/her 30's, it might easily be drawn as child. (I say this as an anime fan who has no interest in hentai.)

I see why people might be confused about hentai.

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Honestly, given the fact that Anime is an art style, and art styles are infinitely varied, this is something that noone could give any real answer to.

I mean literally, an adult in one Anime style could look like a child if compared with another Anime Style. Lucky Star is the first anime off the top of my head that would be like this. If I took an Adult from Lucky Star and threw them into, say, Full Metal Alchemist, the adult would look younger than the main character in Full Metal Alchemist who is 15 or so at the start of the series.

Edit: Hah, come to think of it, Lucky Star pokes fun at this fact at one point.

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As Dsc said, it is all very much dependant on the art style. Proportions are a huge deal, far more so than a lot of people (unfortunately, even quite a number of paid artists (just take a look at any comic superhero, male or female, and you will find anatomy errors everywhere)) think they are. You can be drawing a 90-year-old and, if your proportions are shit, they can look like a child. It's one of the reasons, I believe, other than pure quality reasons, that HentaiFoundry requires such strict understanding of proportions (NSFW link, check section 2d and then have a look at the absolute fuckload of pictures that didn't make it), to cut down on potential legal issues arising from shitty artists who can't draw adults properly.

Don't forget also, that hentai does not refer strictly to anime-styled porn, but to pretty much any drawn or painted erotic art nowadays.

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I didn't know the term was applied broadly like that. Weird.

I think I agree with your proportion point.

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There are porn actresses that look like children too. I dont see people complaining about that.

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Ack!

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Disregard actual children. Protect virtual characters.

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priorities. russian politicians have them.

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today they outlawed owning a computer in my state (u.s.) damn corrupt officials. all cause a senator got busted with a fake charity that was funneling money to a internet cafe. as revenge they passes a law against internet cafe but the wording makes it illegal to own a computer here.

"Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones" if you guys want to look it up.

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I find that both hilarious and pathetically sad.

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Wait, they're banning internet cafe's because they're too fucking stupid to understand how corruption works?

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Basically yes, heard about this on the radio this morning. Sounds incredibly ignorant and ridiculous. Internet cafe owners are already suing the government.

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Wait, so to stop the laundering of money through internet cafes, they banned computers? What if they'd been funneling it into auto shops? Would they have banned cars?

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Only in America. You have the silliest laws.

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Every country has its silly laws, but the US certainly has it's own 3 ring circus of a court.

Its not even a current thing to pass overly simplistic laws that bum fuck everything, should check out some of the laws made in the 1800's.

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hentai kawaii

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Wow that escalated quickly!
I noted a few things just rolling up this page. Most people doesn't know the difference between cartoons, anime (and maybe) hentai, nor their subcategories (again, cartoons, anime and hentai). Second, this turned out a politic/corruption matter, in which we can't solve nothing but instead get an increassing discussion. Now I happen to know a bit of everything I said because I've come (no pun intended) a long way with the previously mentioned subjects AND happen to live in a very corrupt country, to my deep disgust. There's nothing I can do, because I'm just one individual. Of course there's more people and more opinions, so please respect everyone's likes and preferences and please don't just negate and make fun of them because you don't undertand, that's primitive and unconstructive.
Lastly, and more importantly, laws like this are taking control on everyone's lives, you probably be thinking "hey fck them, I don't watch anime/hentai/cartoons, so it doesn't really affect me!" "they can censor/block all that for all I care!" now I tell you, what about the things you do like doing or watching? what about the things your mother/father/sis/bro/your-child/etc likes doing or watching? are you ok with leting them tell you how to live and what to watch? what is next? your food and clothing?
People, don't you remember SOPA/PIPA? don't you think they took enough? If not, then I'm wrong, terribly wrong..
Make no mistake, "if you give more power to the power...." stronger they'll get to f
ck you in the arse.. Thank you for reading.

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agreed

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Feel free to enlighten us up with the differences. I've been asking it repeatedly and I still have to get a suitable answer.

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While cartoon may refer to animation, in common speach it means an animated movie designed specifically for children or for whole families and age range. Why in westewrn countries it may seem like a somewhat valid definition, as adult-centered animations are relatively small niche in Japan animes are targeted at all ages, many of them being adult stuff, then referring to something like tkat as a cartoon may suggest it being for children what may cause misunderstanding:

for example in my country many years ago a Canal+ station was showing some adult animes. Stuff like for example Perfect Blue - which DEFINITELLY isn't something I'd let my children watch, yet it was described in TV program as "kreskówka" - what translates to "cartoon. Because of that some parents who did not know what it is let their children watch it without checking it out first. As this title covers very adult matters - such as stalking, violence, crime, molestation and even rape - you can imagine yourself problems it caused. That's why it's not a good idea to reffer to animes as cartoons, as in many people moinds (especially older generation) cartoon = animated movie suited for kids.

So for definition you're asking for, and for what we all who say the same thing to you over and over define these words as:

ANIME - Japanese animated picture of any kind or target. It may be movie or TV series. It may be targeted at 5 y/o kids or 18+

CARTOON - Animated picture targeted at kids or all age-range (sort-of family movie)

HENTAI - ANIME (look above) pornographic picture.

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So according to that definition thins such as The Simpsons or South Park are not cartoons? In which category would them fall into, then?

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do you actually read what people write or just argue for sake of arguing? "as adult-centered animations are relatively small niche".

You put one part of sentence and start arguing over it, don't mind the context, examples, explanation, assuming you know what someone meant even if they didn't write such a thing, putting in ppl mouth what they didn't say (as like I ACTUALLY MENTIONED such kind of animations like Simpsons or SP) yet when anyone does the same towards you you're suddenly angry about it.

I gave you good explanation why I find your way of thinking wrong. Give example why it can lead to bad misunderstandings, that it may not be as literal as it's for you for older generations etc - and all you have to say in answer is to pick up few words out of context and argue about them.

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The lack of a comma there made me understand the sentence as they were a relatively small niche in Japan.

I'm not angry, and I don't see why it could be wrong as age tags on things were made for something, weren't they? Considering cartoons childish is rather stupid if you ask me. But the thing is that by your definition Anime are still cartoons, only from Japanese procedence.

And trying to discern whom is something suitable to based on its genre is rather foolish too. It's more of the content and not the container. Anywas I was not only cherrypicking sentences from your statement, I had a legit doubt.

Also other people prejudices (as yours seem to be too) regarding cartoons as something for children is none of my concern. In my eye anime are still cartoons. Japanese cartoons if you wish. And there's nothing bad of them being so, but the thing is (and it's not the first time I stumbled into this) is that by many of you cartoons are regardes as something for children whereas anime and all that is "more deep and better and realistic". I call bullshit on that.

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Also who is to say cartoons can't be more realistic and deep and still be cartoons? Anime is cartoons, I am a pretty huge fan of Anime, Anime is Japanese Animation, as far as I am concerned both Cartoons and Anime are Animation...which leads them to being both cartoons, ones from a different palce and has a distinct style, big whoop.

Disagree all you want, I am 24, have been watching Anime for years, since I was 6 probably, also I LOL at "CARTOON - Animated picture targeted at kids or all age-range (sort-of family movie)". You could not be further from the truth here if you ask me, some cartoons that aren't considered Anime are more adult themed then most animes, I refer you to Ren And Stimpy Adult Party.

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I don't care for hentai but this is wrong and doesn't make any sense.

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this doesn't make any sense... So is it forbidden to draw naked women too? And are Animes getting censored there, or are "Ecchi" animes CP too?

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Making this its separate comment too since it's so poignant and it might be getting buried otherwise.
Clicky

Edit: Come to think of it, I remember reading somewhere that the possession of CP is decriminalised in Russia in the first place, what's the big ordeal?

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Can you use a vpn? If you need a recommendation for one I can help, I researched all of them.

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For now we can, but it could change later.

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The question is, though, will these new regulations be enforced at all or are they there just to scare you people?

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Looks like it's time for us to research VPNs, too :(

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Privateinternetaccess is nice and great thing about them is no logs and shared IP's, meaning you and a bunch of other people have the same IP, so even if they somehow kept a log they would have 0 ways of finding out which user on that IP did whatever.

Speed is about the same for me on it. But yeah research, some that seem trust worthy aren't, remember you are sending your data to them instead of the ISP, so best go with one thats legit, not some dirt scammers.

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Thanks, will look into it ^_^

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Good luck, took me a couple weeks to find one I felt good with, some have terrible speeds, no problem :-).

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On a related topic, half a year ago, when I made a puzzle with a custom Knytt level, I got several reports that Nicklas Nygren's website (the one with the Knytt games on it) was being blocked by some Russian ISPs on the grounds that it promoted extremism. Is that still the case?

Anyone has any idea what could have prompted that? I would assume the forums might be causing some concern, but those are hosted on a different domain.

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Yeah, I remember that puzzle - had to use Tor to access that page.

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Russia bans that, Florida, as it defines a slot machine as "any machine or device or system or network of devices" that can be used in games of chance, has in essence banned computers and smart phones in its zeal to crush cyber cafes.

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Poor Russians. We'll probably never understand governments. Maybe they were to lazy to make more specific law, so why not ban all hentai instead?

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People bashing hentai? What would peasants know of the work of gods?

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Closed 1 decade ago by idraneone.