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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's a bit like porn being the big driver for the early internet. You may not wish it were so, and you can point to various early aspects of the early internet that was not porn, but it doesn't change the facts.
Pedo porn goes all the way back to the start of the modern manga movement. No, it didn't show up on Saturday morning TV and quite likely mostly didn't make it to various US book stores. But, it does exist. Just google the term I listed earlier and follow the links.
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I am familiar with hentai. When I was in Japan earlier this year, for fun we went into a shop that sold hentai. It wasn't easy to find, even in Akihabara. It was a small subset of the industry sold in (literal) underground shops.
Manga is sold all over the place in Japan. Convenience stores like 7-11 and Family Mart are everywhere. They sell manga. They sell porn. But it is far, far easier to find flat out porn magazines than it is to find hentai.
And not all (or even most) hentai is porn depicting underage people. There is a fascination with the school girl uniforms, but is that really any different than the fascination with cheerleaders here? (How did a Mobileread thread go down this path?)
Can you point me to any article (other than some guy's blog) saying that manga succeeded purely or almost entirely due to the ease of delivering quasi-pedophile porn? There's a difference between something existing and something being the driving force behind an industry's success.