Lots of American content around teens, especially teen girls but teen boys as well, frames them as sex objects for either jokes or actual ogling. Euphoria and Riverdale, for example, focus very very heavily in a leering way on the bodies of their young characters. However, it is also played as a joke often enough. Almost any show of movie set in high school will make multiple jokes about teens having sex or being horny. It is messed up how obsessed our society is with the sex lives of teenagers, always thinking about them having sex or wanting to have sex. Japanese cultural jokes about sex are a bit different, characters accidentally touching a woman's breasts while falling or women comparing bust sizes or guys being kinda pervy in a "funny" way. Showing the body and contact to an extent is not as stigmatized as in European culture. However, anime is targeted at teens, shounen is made with an audience of Japanese 12 year olds in mind. There's obviously more mature stuff or stuff for girls, but shounen is a massive part of the market. For there to be a joke about someone acting in a sexual manner who should be too young, they have to be 12 or under. Also, people in the age range to be attractive to the viewer and a similar age would be early to mid teens. I don't think any of this makes everything fine and we can ignore the problem, it has gotten worse in the kart couple years. I think the problem is that pedos are taking advantage of plausible deniability and the allowances made for better works to make more specifically pedobait content instead of jokes. But, here are the cultural roots of why there's pedobait in Japanese culture which sticks out more than the underage characters in western works.
Because sex jokes in Japan are different than in America, so you don't block out the pedobait.
Can you elaborate for somebody from a similarly shitty protestant country?
Lots of American content around teens, especially teen girls but teen boys as well, frames them as sex objects for either jokes or actual ogling. Euphoria and Riverdale, for example, focus very very heavily in a leering way on the bodies of their young characters. However, it is also played as a joke often enough. Almost any show of movie set in high school will make multiple jokes about teens having sex or being horny. It is messed up how obsessed our society is with the sex lives of teenagers, always thinking about them having sex or wanting to have sex. Japanese cultural jokes about sex are a bit different, characters accidentally touching a woman's breasts while falling or women comparing bust sizes or guys being kinda pervy in a "funny" way. Showing the body and contact to an extent is not as stigmatized as in European culture. However, anime is targeted at teens, shounen is made with an audience of Japanese 12 year olds in mind. There's obviously more mature stuff or stuff for girls, but shounen is a massive part of the market. For there to be a joke about someone acting in a sexual manner who should be too young, they have to be 12 or under. Also, people in the age range to be attractive to the viewer and a similar age would be early to mid teens. I don't think any of this makes everything fine and we can ignore the problem, it has gotten worse in the kart couple years. I think the problem is that pedos are taking advantage of plausible deniability and the allowances made for better works to make more specifically pedobait content instead of jokes. But, here are the cultural roots of why there's pedobait in Japanese culture which sticks out more than the underage characters in western works.
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