Perhaps some of the only porn someone can consume ethically. I guess there's an argument to be made about poorly paid animators drawing smut in animation workhouses, but it feels like most of the western world, when it comes to hentai, consumes rule 34 of franchise characters from media. Beat my brain up as I may, I can't see anything wrong in that and would much rather a fictional character be debased than an actual human for money.
you're creeping up on SWERFshit with this one, physical sexual labor shouldn't be labelled as 'debased' when the workplace conditions in smut animation/illustration shops are not incapable of damaging and traumatizing their laborers too. can you imagine being asked to draw underage porn, gore porn, even just fetishes you really don't like? skeeves me the fuck out. but i can't imagine all the output of hentai is self-selecting for artists comfortable with all the topics/categories they do in all cases.