[Okama] Hanafuda

I really appreciate reading these concerns of yours and I think it's very important to have open, adult, and logical discussions regarding these topics as they do cover quite sensitive issues.

I tend to relate the attraction to hentai in general to that of a matter of attraction that we, those who enjoy consuming it as a media, have little choice over the matter. I consider it a lot like being gay. If you are gay and you love and are attracted to the same sex, you can try to suppress those feelings, but you cannot help being wired to respond more positively to certain aspects of the same sex. It is not your fault you are gay. If you are gay, then you just are gay and you can accept it and be gay or suppress it and hide out of fear.

I love hentai. My siblings find it appalling and definitely look down on me for my tastes, but we obviously don't make it a topic of discussion because it's none of their fucking business what gets my rocks off and if it bothers them more than it bothers me than it's obvious who the insecure ones are. Nonetheless, you carry a strong point that we are perceived negatively. I doubt that will ever change, but if anyone were to judge me and tell me that my tastes are invalid, then I would call into question their sick and twisted sense of justice. People will always be different from each other. Anyone that demonizes another for a sexual preference that they have little control over is a massive asshole. That kind of judgment is something the world can do without.

About pedophiles, it is not at all illegal to be a pedophile. Pedophilia is a sexual attraction to 'pre-pubescent' children. There are many pedophiles that are normal members of society, open about it, and acknowledge that to ever act on those inhibitions would be wrong. I respect these people because they must be forced to live in a world going through a difficult struggle where they cannot control their attraction, yet find the strength never to act on it. Segueing that into loliconism, I really feel that UK case against Hoque was complete and utter bullshit, nearly draconian. That judge clearly ruled from their bias. I really want to support that guy's cause now. There is no harm or shame in being interested or attracted to lolicon hentai.

A lot of people use several arguments to defend their tastes of lolicon, like that it doesn't depict real children so it wasn't produced by defying the rights of another living, breathing, human being. I heard one person on Fakku say that they aren't attracted to children, per se, as much as they are attracted to cute art and sexual situations between cute characters. Another is more of a distracting excuse that it's better that pedophiles look at porn of fake children rather than exercise their temptations on real children. Although I find that this argument is a distraction because there is no way to prove that someone would have committed a crime if not for lolicon. The criticisms that lolicon contributes to pedophilia are a lot like the argument that violent video games contribute to the actions of mass murderers. A lot of people make that claim, but there simply is no defining evidence to support such a notion.

Anyway, I think one of the greatest aspects of pornography as a whole is its ability to depict fantasies. A lot of people fetishize about rape (which actual rape is of course illegal) and their is porn of it to satisfy that fetish, though that porn is not illegal. However, this is a shaky and distracting grounds to base one's argument off of. It is distracting because you're pointing to another case and saying that it is allowed there so why isn't it allowed here? In truth, I find that the best arguments find legitimization on its own feet. That's how I defend my interest in hentai. It is a fetishism, without a doubt, but is it a paraphilia? I don't think so. A lot of hentai manga depict stronger paraphilic content, as we well know, but that is obviously dependent on the title in question.

If there is anything that the sexual revolution and advent of the tremendous technological advancements of the 21st century have shown us is that people are sexual creatures and each individual has a very unique and interesting preference in sexual matters and erotic content. Instead of lambasting the tastes we judge to be immoral, we should instead search to understand and learn from them and from each other. That's my take on it.