Thursday, November 18, 2010

Topics for Debate

In class today my group was having a hard time finding a topic where our opinions were different. Eventually we brought up the idea that the way's in which we introduce sex to children differ greatly. For example, in America when there is a store that sells children books and pornographic materials the normal way to deal with it is to put the porn into it's own little room usually with a camera on it. Also if there is a porn section it is never around the kids books, magazines, movies etc... and if there is a case where there isn't enough porn to need a room for it then we at least put black panels that sit in front of the porn so the covers aren't visible.

In Japan I've seen many instances where not only are the very graphic covers of porn very visible but are also right next to the children manga and seeing as the average child is 3-4 feet tall, the porn is directly at eye level. I've also found that many mangas intended for children feature very sexual topics or very sexual characters usually in the form of very large breasted women that show tons of cleavage. The anime we discussed was One Piece where they introduce the a character named Ivan who is the king of the "okama". I'm not saying these topics are bad at all but merely whether or not they should be introduced the way they are.

Here are a couple examples from One Piece.
(The second one has Spanish subtitles but you get the idea)



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