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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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.
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Ah, I see, the old move the goalpost argument. No, not all hentai is pedo porn. The term refers to any porn that one might consider abnormal. If you look back at what I actually said, before you went into instinctive attack mode, I said "No idea if that's really the case or if it's just some sort of urban legend". It's history does date back to the post WW II revival of manga though.
If you want to pretend that there isn't an element of pedo porn in the school girl costume thread that runs through manga, that's your choice. Personally, I can see why it makes some people uncomfortable.