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Originally Posted by spaze
I have seen these Manga cartoons at local book stores and I have noticed a lot of damn ugly over-weight men reading them. If this is not perverted then I don't know what is.
And since I am a father of two young girls, I feel disgusted when I see Manga cartoons of pre-teen girls in slutty clothing.
Japan has a reputation of being amajor source of pedofilia as well as panty-sniffing business and in my opinion Manga is categorized within the same theme.
If I would have 4 million downloaded photos on teen girls in skirts, people would see me as a pervert for sure.
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Not all manga has sexual images like that, so it really is unfair to use that brush to paint everyone who reads it. I still read comics and some manga, despite being 27, but what I read everyone is typically fully clothed and not in sexual situations. On the few occaisions there is, usually it is something as minor as cleavage being shown, and all the characters involved are adults. Yes, there is a lot of manga showing girls in scantily clad clothing, but there is also age to consider. If you want to call manga fans anything, Ephebophiles would be better fitting than pedophiles. However, for people who read it, most do not find sexual pleasure in it, and still would be improper to call them anything of the sort. You can still enjoy something without seeking pleasure by it.